2023 NWT Election
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Kieron Testart
Candidate in the Range Lake Yellowknife race.
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MLAs pass motion calling on GNWT to create emergencies agency
October 24, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...aren’t binding so, while the territory has 120 days to respond, it does not have to create an agency despite the motion passing. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, who brought forward the motion, said the territorial government’s refusal to act on the recommendation undermines public confidence in how...
MLAs push ministers over NWT’s response to 2023 review
October 18, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...year. The GNWT has rejected the suggestion, stating a standalone agency would be “costly, duplicative and difficult to staff.” Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, criticizing that decision in the legislature on Thursday, said the GNWT’s existing emergency management system “lacks oversight and...
GNWT’s projected surplus drops $154 million in challenging times
October 17, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...close in early 2026. The GNWT’s debt will be at $1.862 billion, well below the $3.1 billion borrowing limit imposed by Ottawa. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart recalled when, in 2017, then-premier Bob McLeod raised a ‘red alert’ over oil and gas development in the Beaufort Sea after then-prime minister...
Estimated GNWT surplus drops by $154M, territory ‘revising approach’
October 17, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...seems to be sincerely hearing the calls from leaders across the Territories.” ‘We stand unprepared’ Speaking moments later, Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart called on ministers to “act now” regarding the decline of mining. “We need a new red alert, a red alert over our mining industry,” he said,...
Premier says ‘people have to step up’ to keep NWT SPCA going
October 16, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...from executive director Nicole Spencer, who says the shelter needs to find more than $100,000. ♬ original sound – Ollie Williams Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart described an “overwhelming tide of support” for the NWT SPCA as he asked Simpson in the legislature whether the territorial government can give...
Some regular MLAs disappointed in GNWT’s 2023 response
October 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...MLAs Shauna Morgan and Kieron Testart say they expected more from the territorial government’s response to a review of how it handled 2023’s wildfires and evacuations. While the territory to some degree accepted 34 out of 35 recommendations in that review, one of the main recommendations – forming...
Dehcho education review to be complete by early October
September 17, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Caitlin Cleveland, heard “serious concerns from parents, educators, community members and education partners in the Dehcho.” Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, following a visit to Fort Simpson, told the NWT legislature parents had complained of “mishandling of a critical incident, leadership failures...
Dehcho region education system faces ‘formal review’ by independent investigator
June 20, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...work must be carried out with care, fairness, and respect.” Shortly before the NWT Assembly rose for its summer break last month, Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart raised many of the issues he had found while in Fort Simpson at the invitation of concerned parties. “It is heartbreaking to see duly elected...
Assembly hears financial costs of First Responder Bill
June 20, 2025
My Yellow Knife Now - ...firefighters including Christian Bittrolff, local 2890 president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, and MLAs Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart. The Bill aims to make it easier for first responders to access health care services and workers’ compensation for common conditions in the line...
Minister launching investigation into Dehcho ‘education concerns’
June 20, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...in the Dehcho.” Cabin Radio reported concerns related to some aspects of administration at Dehcho schools earlier this year. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, following a visit to Fort Simpson, subsequently told the NWT legislature parents had complained of “mishandling of a critical incident,...
Jordan’s Principle funding shortfalls fail students with loss of teaching assistants
May 29, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...which would determine who our health system would support with the costs of their medication and who were now on their own,” said Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart. “This so-called rationalization of a crucial health care benefit has caused serious anxiety and hardship, “These income thresholds are unfair...
MLAs vote to examine tightening their social media rules
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...expressly address social media or how MLAs communicate online. In February, finance minister Caroline Wawzonek asked Thompson to intervene over a Kieron Testart Facebook post that the premier said was part of a “campaign of intimidation.” After Testart and seven other MLAs were voted down in an attempt...
GNWT to launch ‘third-party investigation’ over school lead tests
May 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...[I] was able to ensure that drinking and cooking water was no longer able to be used,” Cleveland said, answering questions from Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart. “I have provided direction to the GNWT – because it is multiple departments – to do a third-party investigation so we can understand the...
Minister starts investigation into ‘unacceptable’ school lead situation
May 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...results and the communication of those results during a sitting of the legislature on Wednesday afternoon. Answering questions from Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, she said the GNWT needed to “understand the details of how we got here and how we can ensure we are moving forward in a fulsome way.” Schools...
N.W.T. minister heading to Ottawa next week to follow up on nominee program changes
May 28, 2025
CBC North - ...we currently have spaces for." People on maternity leave are left in limbo, says MLA In advance of Cleveland's trip to Ottawa, MLA for Range Lake, Kieron Testart brought up a separate part of the program he'd like to see addressed. Testart said he's heard from program hopefuls that are expecting children. He...