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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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...
Yellowknife lab changes ’caused new problems rather than solving one’
June 20, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...that are going to override their capacity to engage in this process.” ‘The process is going to continue the way it is’ Health minister Lesa Semmler told the legislature “there are always some difficulties” when a new process rolls out. While the minister said she would not review the new...
Yesterday’s Délı̨nę Got’ı̨nę and GNWT bilateral in Yellowknife
June 19, 2024
My Yellow Knife Now - ...in Yellowknife, Premier R.J. Simpson, Ministers Caroline Wawzonek, Caitlin Cleveland, Lucy Kuptana, Jay Macdonald, Vince McKay, and Lesa Semmler convened with the Délı̨nę Got’ı̨nę Government’s Ɂekw’ahtı̨dǝ́ Danny Gaudet, Ɂekw’ahtı̨ Raymond Taneton, and Délı̨nę...
NWT electronic medical records system reaches end of life
June 17, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...needs replacing, just a few years after it was finally implemented in all of the territory’s communities. In the legislature, health minister Lesa Semmler said a request for proposals is expected to go out this September for the first phase of the work. The estimated cost to replace the system is $20...
New lab test appointment policy gets failing grade from MLA Julian Morse
June 14, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...waiting room, and give residents some flexibility in their day. But Morse says some of his constituents just can’t crack the lab access code. Lesa Semmler is the NWT’s Health Minister. She said no review of the policy changes is necessary, but more communications are required. “With any new...
NWT allocates $1.6M for addiction recovery aftercare pilot
June 14, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...and Inuvik, is set to launch in the fall. While non-profits in the territory already offer some forms of transitional housing, health minister Lesa Semmler said the pilot will be the only service of its kind in the Northwest Territories “Some individuals often do very well in treatment but then begin...
Advocates say Yellowknife’s shelter system is in crisis
June 13, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...day shelter operating from portable units opposite the Explorer Hotel. Questioned by Morgan in the legislature on Tuesday, health minister Lesa Semmler said the new centre will accommodate 31 people overnight – up from 22 at the sobering centre – with room for 85 people during the day. “The...
Could renewable diesel power NWT’s green ideals?
June 7, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...rather than have it sit empty for years, such as with the Rockhill Apartments fire site in Yellowknife. We also learned that Health Minister Lesa Semmler fully appreciates the stress and inconvenience handed to blood cancer patients, when they were told in April that hematology-oncology services...
For blood cancer treatment, ‘I might as well move to Edmonton.’
June 7, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...We have to have all of our patients come to Edmonton to have the care that they need.’ It has completely changed everything.” Health minister Lesa Semmler, in the legislature on Thursday, said Alberta Health Services had told the territorial government that “under their standard of practice, they...
N.W.T. health minister says she won’t pause changes to health benefits regime
June 5, 2024
CBC North - ...she won't pause the rollout of changes to the territory's extended health benefits program, after a standing committee of MLAs urged her to do so. Lesa Semmler was not available for an interview and sent CBC a written statement. The program helps cover the cost of prescription drugs, medical supplies and...
‘Not a done deal.’ What’s happening with Extended Health Benefits?
June 5, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...don’t understand why they may need to pay more to treat chronic conditions. On Tuesday, a committee of MLAs formally called on health minister Lesa Semmler to “pause” EHB’s planned September rollout. Those MLAs said they had concerns about “the financial impacts, public confusion, and the lack...
Standing committee calls on N.W.T. health minister to pause changes to benefits regime
June 4, 2024
CBC North - ...cover the cost of prescription drugs, medical supplies and equipment that aren't eligible for coverage through third-party insurers. In a letter to Lesa Semmler, dated June 3, committee chair Jane Weyallon Armstrong wrote that the committee has yet to see a full cost-benefit analysis of the changes — or...
NWT government has no plans to develop accessibility act
June 4, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...read, adding that while no minister had been formally assigned responsibility for people with disabilities, that responsibility falls under Lesa Semmler’s health and social services...