2023 NWT Election
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George Nerysoo
Candidate in the Mackenzie Delta All Ridings race.
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Private smoking in public housing to be butted out across the NWT
March 14, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...a shared commitment to community well-being. While evictions are always a last resort, they are sometimes necessary.” Later, Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo questioned what Local Housing Organizations can actually do. Nerysoo followed up on his statement made in the NWT Assembly on Tuesday alleging...
With added housing cash, NWT’s 2025-26 budget comfortably passes
March 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...on childcare supports. The Sahtu’s Danny McNeely thanked cabinet for assistance provided to the Sahtu in the past year. The Mackenzie Delta’s George Nerysoo welcomed the housing funding. Both supported the budget, though Nerysoo again raised an issue he has pursued all week: what he describes as a lack...
Elders can be financially, emotionally abused by family members seeking cash for drugs
March 13, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...for Jordan’s Principal funding for the territories, because we know it is just crucially important,” she said. Meanwhile, Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo offered a tribute to Evelyne Parry, who passed away on January 26 at the age of 79. She was one of the few people left who could fluently speak,...
‘Policies and procedures protect the criminals,’ says angry MLA
March 12, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...Delta's George Nerysoo says Housing NWT units in Fort McPherson are openly used as drug dens A clearly frustrated elected official from a small Gwich’in community says complaints of drug dealing in public housing are ignored by authorities at all levels. Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo said he...
Problems, solutions emerge in hearing on closure of 19 Community Learning Centres
March 7, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...expensive, ineffective and outdated as well.” At the morning hearing of the Accountability and Oversight Committee, Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo told James the Community Learning Centres are made up of students, staff and that they reflect the communities they serve. Nerysoo said: “And in...
MLAs question Aurora College’s plans to close community learning centres, boost online learning
March 6, 2025
CBC North - ...saying the current model has become "expensive, outdated, and ineffective," as only 22 full-time students were enrolled. Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo said the news came as a shock to his community. He says many high school students are not ready to pursue education outside their community and...
In the NWT, who received a King Charles III Coronation Medal?
March 5, 2025
Cabin Radio - The King Charles III Coronation Medal – commemorating the 2023 coronation of Canada’s monarch – is being awarded to a total of 30,000 people across the country, including 4,000 members of the armed forces. An exhaustive list of every Northwest Territories resident to receive a medal is not readily available. Many of the recipients received their medals at a ceremony inside the NWT Legislative Assembly last week. If you know of an NWT resident who received the medal through another organization and is not listed below, tell us and we’ll confirm it then add them to the list. Medal recipients’ names are as they were provided to us by the nominating office, and recipients are listed in the order provided to us.
How NWT MLAs have voted in the 20th Assembly so far
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...2024, six regular MLAs voted against a bill that implemented the 2025-26 capital budget. The six included those three plus Morse, Morgan and George Nerysoo. Even so, third reading of the bill passed with Kate Reid, Denny Rodgers, Danny McNeely, and Jane Weyallon Armstrong voting in favour alongside six...
Budget must improve lives in small communities, says Yakeleya
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...of residents in small communities and improve the capacity of local communities,” she said, “because this strengthens the territory overall.” George Nerysoo. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio Mackenzie Delta MLA George Nerysoo advocated for investments in housing, healthcare and education in communities. ...
MLAs narrowly defeat bid to remove $5.25M from ECE’s budget
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...with the “frustration” of smaller NWT communities’ MLAs and constituents. Richard Edjericon, Jane Weyallon Armstrong, Denny Rodgers and George Nerysoo also voted in favour. Motion ‘would have negative impact’ The motion was defeated when Yellowknife North’s Shauna Morgan and Frame Lake MLA...
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...