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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Elders can be financially, emotionally abused by family members seeking cash for drugs
March 13, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...these problems. Drugs have made their way into our communities and users are taking advantage of the elders.” Yakeleya asked Health Minister Lesa Semmler what specific measures are being done to address the issue of elder abuse, particularly in relation to financial exploitation and neglect within the...
New transitional housing project opens in Yellowknife
March 10, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...the first time, residents will have access to both addiction recovery support and safe transitional housing within the territory,” health minister Lesa Semmler said as dignitaries opened the facility on Monday. “Tharp gives participants the stability they need to rebuild their lives, reconnect with their...
5-bedroom transitional home opens in Yellowknife for people back from addictions treatment
March 10, 2025
CBC North - ...neighbourhood, the home will have staff with training in addictions treatment on-site 24 hours a day. Health and Social Services Minister Lesa Semmler said it would provide "stable, sober housing" for residents. Semmler said her department would be working closely with the Salvation Army, which...
Deaths of 3 Dehcho residents have MLAs demanding an investigation
March 7, 2025
CBC North - ... The motion also calls for the minister to table any recommendations the investigator finds along with a plan to address them. Health Minister Lesa Semmler extended her condolences to the families and recognized their need for answers. Health Minister Lesa Semmler said it's important the government...
Problems, solutions emerge in hearing on closure of 19 Community Learning Centres
March 7, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...a health centre, but medical emergencies require that residents leave the community by air for hospital services in Yellowknife. Health Minister Lesa Semmler said there are three active internal investigations underway “through quality assurance framework” of the Northwest Territories Health and...
MLAs call for critical incident investigation into deaths
March 7, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...a higher level of training to administer life-saving medications or intravenous fluids. ‘These tragedies will not be ignored’ Health minister Lesa Semmler shared condolences to those affected and said she recognized family members’ need for answers, accountability and meaningful change regarding the...
‘When they arrive, the distressing reality is there’s nowhere to stay’
March 6, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...accommodation and the March tourism surge appear to have made the current situation exceptionally difficult. Responding to Rodgers, health minister Lesa Semmler directly attributed the problem to “a rise in tourism … putting additional pressure on an already strained system.” The territory’s health...
Patients on medical travel have nowhere to stay in Yellowknife right now
March 6, 2025
CBC North - ...wait months for their appointments, and rescheduling or cancelling can have serious consequences for their health and well-being. Health Minister Lesa Semmler said a rise in tourism is putting additional pressure on an already-strained accommodation system in the city. She said her department is working...
Low vaccination rates put most vulnerable people at serious risk, says NWT Health Minister
March 5, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...weakening trust in the science, leaving residents — especially elders and children — vulnerable to preventable diseases, says Health Minister Lesa Semmler. Measles vaccination rates amongst two-year-olds have dropped from nearly 90-per-cent in 2019 to just over 82-per-cent in 2024 — well below the...
Shelter-in-place policy in works for Yellowknife hospital following weekend firearm incident
March 5, 2025
CBC North - ...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 draft in place and that it's being reviewed by occupational health and safety, "and other various teams." She said RCMP will review...
American liquor purchases frozen, as GNWT does what it can in Trump Trade War
March 4, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...shortly to ensure wildfire management teams are fully prepared once the snow melts and the fire danger rises. Also on Tuesday, Health Minister Lesa Semmler said a policy change is in the works that would better address incidents such as the angry individual who allegedly pointed a firearm at a security...
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...