2023 NWT Election
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George Nerysoo
Candidate in the Mackenzie Delta All Ridings race.
George can be reached at pjvittrekwa@gmail.com, or by calling 867-377-0156.
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Three MLAs stand up to cabinet, say they aren’t being listened to
February 14, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...dialogue on how we can continue to evolve and strengthen our consensus system.” Thursday afternoon in the Assembly, Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo said he wondered how long a community should expect a danger such as an abandoned buildings to remain in a community before Housing NWT will tear it...
‘Why is our Indigenous population subject to these deplorable conditions?’
February 12, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...Delta MLA George Nerysoo says despite years of complaints, medical travel patients still end up at Yellowknife’s Quality Inn Health and Social Services Minister Lesa Semmler again faced questions about complaints from community residents placed at a certain Yellowknife hotel for medical travel. ...
Questions fly over health-care ‘czar,’ future of learning centres
February 11, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...the Aurora College board of directors to close all 19 Community Learning Centres has left some employees in emotional turmoil. Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo was critical of the move, which came without consultation. “There are some employees who broke down in tears because of the uncertainty that was...
Listen: Will the GNWT’s new Indigenous Employment Policy work?
December 20, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...it wrong. In a letter this week, seven regular MLAs – Jane Weyallon Armstrong, Richard Edjericon, Robert Hawkins, Kieron Testart, Daniel McNeely, George Nerysoo and Sheryl Yakeleya – said the new policy was being introduced despite “unresolved concerns.” A committee of NWT MLAs had already formally...
Nutrition North considers expansion to more northern communities
December 5, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...we’ll have good news – you know, knock on wood – depending on what the government decides.” Sahtu MLA Danny McNeely and Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo at the legislature on Wednesday. Aastha Sethi/Cabin Radio When Nutrition North was launched in 2011, Walsh said, it only included communities that...
MLAs pass capital budget despite gripes
November 5, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...other files,” he said. “We need some deliverables that we can take back home to our ridings that matter to people.” Minister defends budget George Nerysoo, representing the Mackenzie Delta, said he could not go back to his community if he supported the capital budget. “I can’t go back to my...
N.W.T. assembly passes capital budget despite concerns over priorities
November 1, 2024
CBC North - ...Armstrong, Kate Reid and Denny Rodgers. Voting against the budget were MLAs Robert Hawkins, Shauna Morgan, Kieron Testart, Julian Morse and George Nerysoo. The finance minister responded to members asking for more for housing and healthcare by committing to remove derelict housing units, reviewing...
Could a similar Stanton Renewal Project debacle happen again?
October 30, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...money we need to fix our health-care systems or support operations in small communities.” Meanwhile in the Assembly today Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo again address the condition of the Dempster Highway during the summer and fall season. He said the section heading into Inuvik from the Yukon...
Drug-fuelled violence in Fort McPherson has MLA pleading for help
October 21, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...a snippy Finance Minister Pointing to an alleged drug-related knife-point hostage taking in Teetł’it Zheh (Fort McPherson), Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo continued his plea from last week for help from the territorial government to fight what he called a crisis situation in communities in his riding. ...
Homeless encampment in Yellowknife to come down starting today
September 9, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...questioned if enough is being done to allow people to stay in their home communities, either with shelters but preferably through more housing. George Nerysoo is MLA for Mackenzie Delta. “To hit the root of this problem has to come to the communities, because I know the people there. My chief knows the...
‘You send an Elder to the concrete jungle and expect them to survive’
June 26, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...Edmonton for care. But she acknowledged that those staff don’t offer a service that helps people navigate their healthcare. Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo, speaking at Monday’s briefing, described meeting an elderly woman at Larga Edmonton several years ago. He believed she had travelled from the...
Can the NWT police its way out of the drug crisis?
June 12, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...we do not have a robust law enforcement response to these predators, we are not going to be able to keep communities safe.” MLAs Danny McNeely, George Nerysoo, Sheryl Yakeleya and Denny Rodgers spoke in favour of increasing RCMP resources. Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon introduced a motion...
MLA George Nerysoo calls for better security screening at YZF
June 7, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...drugs and other activities heading north through Yellowknife. Is there any measure the airport can take to improve security?” Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo raised this question to the airport committee in a public briefing on Thursday, held by the NWT Legislative Assembly. “At this point, those...
Welfare work requirements are retired by GNWT
June 4, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...for many Regular MLAs in Statements and Oral Questions today in the NWT Assembly was removing the requirement to seek and maintain employment. George Nerysoo, MLA for Mackenzie Delta, said there needs to be an incentive to get off Income Assistance. “What we see is that once people start, they do not...
Health-care staff shortage a ‘crisis,’ MLA proposes task force
May 27, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...did not fully understand. They struggled to make housing payments on the limited income they have and now face collections from being in arears. · George Nerysoo MLA for Aklavik made it known the community’s access road is in threat of falling into the Peel Channel due to shoreline erosion. He noted that...