2023 NWT Election
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Kieron Testart
Candidate in the Range Lake Yellowknife race.
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Some MLAs still critical of Indigenous Employment Policy
March 11, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...there are other ways the territory can support the hiring of northerners and said the government will continue to research best practices. Kieron Testart, the MLA for Range Lake, said the current prioritization of non-Indigenous northerners has not been constitutionally challenged in court. He...
NWT immigration cap could go up again if it takes more asylum seekers
March 11, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...there revolves around the Northwest Territories welcoming asylum seekers to the territory,” she said, responding to questions from Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart. NWT Liberal MP Michael McLeod had previously observed that Ottawa appeared to be tying immigration allotments to jurisdictions’ willingness to...
Women’s society disputes Northview claims of housing program
March 11, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...YKWS in delivering this program,” according to the letter. Quest for dedicated building Following the presentation on Wednesday, Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart – Wellborn’s spouse – asked if Northview has a practice of blacklisting tenants. Wellborn said Northview has no “formal system for that.”...
Deaths of 3 Dehcho residents have MLAs demanding an investigation
March 7, 2025
CBC North - ...in regional centres in the N.W.T. or to Edmonton for treatment. MLAs passed another motion Thursday calling for escorts for medevac patients. Kieron Testart, the MLA for Range Lake, brought that motion forward and said medical staff themselves say patients in critical care need the support of loved ones...
MLAs call for critical incident investigation into deaths
March 7, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...on Thursday calling on the NWT government to develop and implement a policy regarding non-medical escorts for patients in critical condition. Kieron Testart, the MLA for Range Lake, proposed the motion. He said there is currently no such policy when people are transported by ambulance or emergency...
Shelter-in-place policy in works for Yellowknife hospital following weekend firearm incident
March 5, 2025
CBC North - ...in Yellowknife after pointing a firearm at a security guard outside Stanton Territorial Hospital. In the legislature Tuesday, Yellowknife MLA Kieron Testart asked why Stanton doesn't have a "code silver" shelter-in-place policy like other hospitals in Canada. Health Minister Lesa Semmler said there is a...
American liquor purchases frozen, as GNWT does what it can in Trump Trade War
March 4, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ... He said: “It might be a difficult few years for us, but I know that we’re going to stay united and we’re going to resist.” Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart asked Premier Simpson about the potential impact the trade war could have in the North. Said Testart: “Today is a fairly momentous day in the...
Trudeau tells Trump tariffs are ‘very dumb thing to do’
March 4, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...message of using the North and mining to unlock significant new sources of Canadian revenue. In the NWT legislature on Monday, Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart said the territory needed to pivot “towards a new economic strategy” as tariffs come into effect. “While northerners have felt left out of...
MLA’s social media post doesn’t affect finance minister’s work, N.W.T. Speaker rules
March 4, 2025
CBC North - ...made the ruling Monday on a point of privilege raised by Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek, who argued that comments made on social media by MLA Kieron Testart impede Wawzonek's ability to engage freely with MLAs. A point of privilege is a tool for members to address something impeding their ability to do...
Speaker to MLAs: ‘We were not elected to quarrel and bicker’
March 3, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...decision-making, accommodation, respect and trust so necessary in Consensus Government. In ruling that a Facebook post last week by Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart did not undermine Finance and Infrastructure Minister Caroline Wawzonek’s ability to do here job, Speaker Shane Thompson tried to put a lid on the...
‘I expect more of you,’ speaker says of NWT MLAs
March 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...complaint from one MLA about another. Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek told the speaker last week that she felt a Facebook post by Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart had put “a chill on all relationships as elected officials and on our ability to communicate one-on-one.” After losing a vote when two regular...
Cell service dead zones, cash for communities and another upset MLA round out the week
February 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...Speaker Shane Thompson for a perceived slight from one of their peers. Following concerns raised Thursday by Minister Wawzonek about Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, on Friday morning, Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan was irked by something said off-microphone by Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins. “A...
Norman Wells is ‘a community living in fear,’ says Sahtu MLA
February 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...start of proceedings on Thursday, Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek raised a point of privilege, asserting that a Facebook post by Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart implied that the ongoing budget process involves backroom deals and is mere “accountability theatre.” She argued that this undermines her...
Nominee program reopens in NWT after six-month pause
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...is certainly paramount in this conversation – along with ensuring that we are serving all northerners that live here.” Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart questioned the department’s decision to carry over 60 applications from 2024 into 2025 instead of basing intake on “fairness and equity” for...
Testart defends ‘rhetorical flourishes’ after minister’s complaint
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...NWT’s finance minister has asked the speaker 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 to cut funding for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment on...