2023 NWT Election
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Lesa Semmler
Candidate in the Inuvik Twin Lakes Inuvik race.
Lesa can be reached at InuvikTwinLakes2023@gmail.com, or by calling 867-678-0779.
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Reid questions proposed $100K family violence budget cut
February 18, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...River, Fort Smith, Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk. Several members of the network came to the legislature to watch the discussion on Thursday last week. Lesa Semmler, the NWT’s minister of health and social services, previously told MLAs the funding being cut was used to bring shelter staff to Yellowknife for...
N.W.T. gov’t scrapping $100K to family violence shelters, shelters say bring it back
February 14, 2025
CBC North - ...of the YWCA N.W.T. "Does the minister believe that in-person connections for a sensitive sector such as this are not necessary?" Reid asked Lesa Semmler, minister of Health and Social Services, in the legislature Thursday. Semmler said the department supports family violence shelters, but she...
‘Why is our Indigenous population subject to these deplorable conditions?’
February 12, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...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. Mackenzie Delta MLA...
Questions fly over health-care ‘czar,’ future of learning centres
February 11, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...as an opportunity and be creative in what the next chapter looks like.” Two Yellowknife MLAs appeared to get under the skin of Health Minister Lesa Semmler with repeated calls for transparency over the dissolution in December of the NWT’s Health and Social Services (NTHSSA) Leadership Council, in...
Julian Morse calls for NWT to improve respite care supports
February 6, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...than what we’re paying now.” Morse said the territory pays between $30,000 and $50,000 a month per person sent south for care. Health minister Lesa Semmler said her department is reviewing supportive needs for out-of-territory clients to help inform what would be required to offer supportive living...
Jean Marie River, N.W.T., facing outbreak of respiratory illness, chief says
January 18, 2025
CBC North - ...that he has also spoken to several other community members who have similar concerns. He said he has been in contact with N.W.T. Health Minister Lesa Semmler, and has been advocating for the Northwest Territories health authority to send staff into the community to diagnose and care for those who are ill....
Health leadership council says it was scrapped without consultation
December 10, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...authority leadership council being removed in favour of a single public administrator says the change was made without its input. Health minister Lesa Semmler is dismissing the council’s members, who previously served as the equivalent of a board of governors for the NWT’s health authority. In their...
How much federally owned housing sits empty in the NWT?
November 12, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...Chinna nearly three years ago. “With all these new units that are being for RCMP, what are we doing with the old units?” Inuvik Twin Lakes MLA Lesa Semmler asked. “Are we going to absorb them into GNWT and are we going to use those to reduce our public housing waitlist?” Chinna replied that she...
N.W.T. gov’t creating team to cut health spending
October 27, 2024
CBC North - ...Territorial Health Investment Fund. The team's yearly budget will be about $2 million, most of which will go toward salaries. Health Minister Lesa Semmler told MLAs the initiative comes at a time when the Northwest Territories health system is facing "significant financial challenges." The team will...
Yellowknife MLAs release healthcare survey findings
October 25, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...they also want to be part of the solution. Testart said workers are looking for “bold action” from the territorial government. Health minister Lesa Semmler acknowledged the NWT’s healthcare system is facing challenges like the recruitment and retention of staff. She said Stanton Territorial Hospital...
NWT public servants’ morale ‘at rock bottom,’ says MLA and former union leader
October 24, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...of 20.7 kilometres of the seasonal Mackenzie Valley Winter Road accessible year-around. Yellowknife Centre Robert Hawkins suggested Health Minister Lesa Semmler had been “quiet quitting,” as the health-care system has so many problem areas that never seem to be remedied. Premier R.J. Simpson, in his...
N.W.T. MLAs won’t support capital plan without more money for housing and health care
October 24, 2024
CBC North - ...fall session, which ends Nov. 1. There are five sitting days left between now and then. Stanton Hospital to review leave policy Health Minister Lesa Semmler fielded questions from multiple members Wednesday on the state of health care in the territory, including difficulties getting appointments, staff...
Going off the deep end arguing for a new all-season pool for Behchokǫ̀
October 23, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...contact the regional superintendent to see if there could be any help provided in finding alternate funding sources. Meanwhile, Health Minister Lesa Semmler was on her feet answering a series of questions from several MLAs concerning workplace policies and how they are hurting health-care delivery,...
Campus of Care move created ‘lasting chaos, inefficiency and burnout,’ says MLA
October 22, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...and it goes far beyond a few grumpy staff who simply don’t like change or don’t want to be team players. Minister of Health and Social Services Lesa Semmler said that with no added resources in primary care, the delivery model has been reorganized with the intent to deliver a more equitable access to...
For nine years, health authority refused to correct woman’s gender
October 22, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...issue had been fixed within a week of the woman and her partner bringing the problem to Reid’s attention and the MLA writing to health minister Lesa Semmler. Reid said the couple, both women, had made “multiple attempts” to have the woman’s records corrected before resorting to asking a politician...