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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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...
Peter Clarkson running for mayor of Inuvik
October 10, 2024
Cabin Radio - ... Clarkson believes the Town of Inuvik can better work with the Gwich’in, Inuvialuit, Inuvik Native Band, Métis and the town’s two MLAs, Lesa Semmler and Denny Rodgers, to “share information and look at what some of the overall priorities for the community are.” He also wants to find ways to...
Sahtu Secretariat annual meeting kicks off in Fort Good Hope, N.W.T.
September 24, 2024
CBC North - ...at the meeting. (Luke Carroll/CBC) The need for an all-season road to the community was another subject that will be discussed, McNeely said. Lesa Semmler, N.W.T. health minister, along with Jay Macdonald, the minister of Environment and Climate Change, and Danny McNeely, Sahtu MLA, are all in...
At a health town hall, patients see nuance even as they endure pain
August 23, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...and Testart provided short responses and occasional explainers. Both are regular MLAs, meaning they can bring people’s concerns to health minister Lesa Semmler but can’t make healthcare decisions themselves. Semmler was not present at the meeting. ‘Everyone wants the system to succeed’ About a dozen...
Premier, ministers, mayor meet over Yellowknife encampment
August 20, 2024
Cabin Radio - ... In a Tuesday news release, City Hall said Mayor Rebecca Alty had met with Premier RJ Simpson, housing minister Lucy Kuptana, health minister Lesa Semmler and communities minister Vince McKay late last week “to discuss the recent tent encampment established in downtown Yellowknife.” The city said...
Breaking down some of the big issues with NWT medical travel
July 8, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...is the complexity of the medical travel benefits and the number of different insurance plans that are accessed by residents,” said health minister Lesa Semmler. That includes medical travel benefits from employer-sponsored plans, such as those available to GNWT employees and federal employees; private...
Anti-Indigenous racism is ‘blatantly obvious’ in Health and Social Services, says Minister Lesa Semmler
June 26, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...“blatantly obvious,” racism faced by First Nations, Metis and Inuit patients and clients when dealing with Health and Social Services staff. Lesa Semmler is a former nurse in the Beaufort Delta and now is the NWT’s Health Minister. She told the Standing Committee om Social Development there is an...
‘You send an Elder to the concrete jungle and expect them to survive’
June 26, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...language supports was brought up repeatedly during a Monday briefing on systemic racism in the NWT’s healthcare system. Led by health minister Lesa Semmler, the briefing – for a committee of regular MLAs – went through work done over the past couple of years and future plans. “Indigenous language...