2023 NWT Election
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Kieron Testart
Candidate in the Range Lake Yellowknife race.
Kieron can be reached at info@Kierontestart.ca, or by calling 867-444-7558.
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MLA George Nerysoo calls for better security screening at YZF
June 7, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...Transport Security Authority (CATSA) and the RCMP. The topic quickly became overshadowed by the infamous polar bear display in the airport. MLA Kieron Testart for Range Lake asked for an update on the progress of replacing the bear. For more than a decade, Yellowknives Dene First Nation has been...
Could renewable diesel power NWT’s green ideals?
June 7, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...are working with Alberta to secure an oncologist and to post a specialized nurse in Yellowknife to re-start the program. No timeline was provided. Kieron Testart, MLA for Range Lake, entered into a debate with Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek, over the differences between a Universal Basic Income and...
For blood cancer treatment, ‘I might as well move to Edmonton.’
June 7, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...an on-call oncology nurse here in the territory to support that oncologist, to ensure that this program is up and running again.” Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, pressing Semmler for a timeline, said: “Situations like these are urgent and require not only an immediate fix, but also a serious review of the...
When will they fix YK Airport security? How about the parking gate?
June 6, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...so it is a known item and concern,” he said. Up in arms The security lineup question came from Great Slave MLA Kate Reid. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart followed it, slightly sheepishly, with a more personal query. “My only question – and this seems frivolous given our remit, holding government...
NWT residents protest against planned midwifery budget cuts
May 31, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...getting amazing service, amazing value for what they do. Why they’re not supporting it? I have no idea,” Hawkins said. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart said cuts in Yellowknife meant midwifery in the NWT would “lose that core centre of support that will allow it to grow and succeed in other...
‘Look outside the box.’ MLA calls for changes to barging service
May 29, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...operated by the NWT government since 2017, to be privatized. That lead to goading calls of “sell it” from Yellowknife MLAs Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart. “As a government we are good at government. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’re good at managing businesses,” Rodgers said. ‘Creative...
NWT ‘definitely committed’ as Aurora College transformation delayed
May 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...was set to be complete by May 2025. Its president and board said this month that will not happen on time. This week, MLAs Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart suggested a disconnect between the department and college officials, who said the transformation was never properly funded during a public briefing...
NWT’s new budget is ‘a financial Frankenstein’s monster’
May 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...budget. Some MLAs and organizations criticized the cuts and cabinet’s spending priorities. Among the most vocally critical was Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, who described the budget as “a financial Frankenstein’s monster” after departments were individually tasked with reviewing programs and...
Health-care staff shortage a ‘crisis,’ MLA proposes task force
May 27, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...frustrations amongst healthcare workers, especially when it comes to workplace policies and procedures and labour relations.” Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart continued the health-care conversation, stating that the staffing situation at Stanton Territorial Hospital is “rapidly becoming a full-blown...
MLAs bring Missing Persons bill to Beaufort Delta for review
April 12, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...Committee on Social Development were in Aklavik and Inuvik this week to gather feedback on Bill 2, The Missing Persons Act. Committee member Kieron Testart, who is MLA for Range Lake, told CKLB the committee heard passionate and emotional presentations, including the Gruben family. “The committee...
What MLAs heard about Missing Persons Act in Aklavik and Inuvik
April 11, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...for all of those people that are still missing and are likely murdered, as there’s many in the Delta.” MLAs George Nerysoo, Danny McNeely, Kieron Testart, Sheryl Yakeleya, Jane Weyallon Armstrong and Shauna Morgan travelled to the two communities. In Aklavik, Kerr said speakers included Status of...
N.W.T. MLAs hold Missing Persons Act meetings in Aklavik and Inuvik
April 11, 2024
CBC North - ...of Frank Gruben last spring. Gruben, a 30-year old Gwich'in Inuvialuit man, was last seen in Fort Smith, N.W.T., on May 6, 2023. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart said the meeting in Aklavik was well attended and members of Gruben's family were there to ask questions and hear about the act. "It's been very...
MLAs wonder who’ll benefit if NWT makes carbon tax changes
April 9, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...wasn’t questioning finance minister Caroline Wawzonek, who usually bears the brunt of these concerns. This time, he was asking Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, who is proposing legislation that would change how carbon tax works in the NWT. Testart wants to re-engineer the tax so that the federal...
NWT carbon tax public meeting planned as rates go up
March 30, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...a bill that would repeal the territory’s current version of the carbon tax if it passes. The bill, proposed earlier this year by regular MLAs Kieron Testart and Robert Hawkins, would not get rid of the carbon tax but would place many elements back into federal control, rather than maintain the current...
Assembly update for February 29
March 1, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...do we support smaller communities.” Other issues touched on during the last Oral Questions session for a while were: Land leases (Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart), diabetes rates and treatments (YK Centre MLA Robert Hawkins); the Slave Geological Province development (YK North MLA Shauna Morgan); and crime on...