2023 NWT Election
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Lesa Semmler
Candidate in the Inuvik Twin Lakes Inuvik race.
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Jordan’s Principle funding shortfalls fail students with loss of teaching assistants
May 29, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...within the federal government that we cannot afford to take on this program should they choose not to continue it,” she said. Health Minister Lesa Semmler had to explain a flubbed roll-out of new Extended Health Benefit criteria, which saw seniors having to pay out of pocket for medicines. “In the...
MLAs vote to examine tightening their social media rules
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...And so I think it’s worthwhile for us to at least begin to look into this, because we could be heading down the path of the United States.” Lesa Semmler, the health minister, said the existing code of conduct “may not fully meet the public’s expectation in this digital age where words can spread...
Residents, downtown homeless campers ‘all have to get along,’ says Premier R.J. Simpson
May 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...drinking water from the school sources, and so this is the first time this work has been done.” Meanwhile, Health and Social Services Minister Lesa Semmler provided an update on progress being made to surgically remove racist practices from the NWT’s healthcare system. “Our government has a duty to...
Avens criticizes GNWT over $400K related to evacuation expenses
May 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...said could “jeopardize the future of long-term care in the NWT” if the territory does not act. In the legislature on Tuesday, health minister Lesa Semmler said the issue had “gone back and forth” and the $400,000 was judged to involve costs that were not eligible for reimbursement. Neither Avens...
MLAs turn up volume in NWT Assembly; Speaker’s temper blows
May 25, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...shape, or form is the respect or dignity of this process or the importance of this process diminished because of that. Meanwhile, Health Minister Lesa Semmler told the Assembly the often-criticized medical travel program is in the process of being updated.“In every community I have visited, residents...
MLA calls for regulation of NWT counsellors and psychotherapists
May 22, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...to provide safe care. Why should we not hold mental health professions to the same standards or similar standards?” Morse asked. Health minister Lesa Semmler said her department’s efforts are focused on legislative work related to professionals in fields that are already regulated. “We are not...
Protests against Danielle Smith merge outside NWT legislature
May 22, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Network’s rally. Emily Blake/Cabin Radio The Northern Mosaic Network recently penned an open letter to NWT Premier RJ Simpson and health minister Lesa Semmler, highlighting concerns with Bill 26 and increasing transphobia. The letter calls on Simpson and Semmler to outline how they plan to address those...
Simpson faces Smith questions as western premiers meet in NWT
May 21, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...working toward that end.” Minister says ‘alternate pathways’ in place Also on Wednesday, Great Slave MLA Kate Reid asked health minister Lesa Semmler about supports for trans residents of the territory. Alberta law now bars anyone aged under 16 in the province from receiving hormone therapy and...
Health care, wildfire report in spotlight as N.W.T. MLAs begin 7-day spring sitting
May 21, 2025
CBC North - ... "Even if they can't be implemented immediately, we need to have a commitment that those are going to be worked on," Testart said. Health Minister Lesa Semmler has pushed back on characterizations that the Stanton emergency room is on the verge of closure, and Premier R.J. Simpson has spoken out in support...
Plan for healthcare change comes with promise to ‘do something’
May 16, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Physicians have warned the Yellowknife hospital emergency room might close if solutions are not found. Time and again, Florizone and health minister Lesa Semmler have insisted that will not happen. But under questioning from Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan, Florizone acknowledged a major reason the...
Health staff gave up long weekend plans to keep Yellowknife ER open, official says
May 16, 2025
CBC North - ...as he says NTHSSA officials have been meeting regularly with the N.W.T. Medical Association and are working on shared priorities. Health Minister Lesa Semmler also pushed back on the suggestion that the emergency department might close because of staffing. "Statements like that put the fear in our...
Nurses’ survey records support for separate collective agreement
May 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...I understand first-hand the frustrations and pressures that health and social services staff and practitioners are facing,” health minister Lesa Semmler stated last week. “Despite past efforts to improve recruitment, retention, and workplace wellness, many challenges persist – and front-line...
N.W.T. premier supports minister amid criticisms of territory’s health care
May 9, 2025
CBC North - ...premier of the Northwest Territories is re-affirming support for his health minister after a group of three MLAs accused Minister Lesa Semmler of not taking her role seriously and threatened to oust her from the job. In a news release Thursday, MLAs Kieron Testart, Robert Hawkins and Richard Edjericon...
Premier backs Semmler as 3 MLAs float idea of removing her
May 9, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...NWT regular MLAs threatened on Thursday to seek health minister Lesa Semmler’s removal from cabinet unless urgent changes are made to the territory’s “flatlining” healthcare system. The three don’t appear close to having the votes needed to make good on that threat, but they are joined by...
N.W.T. doctors say pay hike for locum physicians a good start
May 1, 2025
CBC North - ... "We know care is best provided by people who know their patients, who know the system, who know and love the territory." Health Minister Lesa Semmler says health systems across the country are in crisis, and her department is working on various long-term reforms to improve primary care in the...