2023 NWT Election
Lucy Kuptana
Candidate in the Nunakput All Ridings race.
Lucy can be reached at Debbieraddi@yahoo.ca, or by calling 867-688-2384.
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Three MLAs stand up to cabinet, say they aren’t being listened to
February 14, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...communities.” He said a private landowner wouldn’t be allowed to let badly maintained buildings linger. Nerysoo engaged Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana on the subject during Oral Questions. Kuptana said Housing NWT has 293 units in the Mackenzie Delta riding. Of those, 265 are occupied, one is...
Housing NWT promises action on safety at Inuvik apartment block
February 10, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...busts in that building, which is good. Unfortunately, you know, a week later we see the same activity back in the same units.” Housing minister Lucy Kuptana told Rodgers some of her own relatives have lived in the building and the president of Housing NWT, Erin Kelly, had visited the building last week...
Community Learning Centre closures decried by Regular MLAs
February 9, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...suggested Community Learning Centres funding should go to the school boards. Meantime, Inuvik Boot Lake MLA Denny Rogers asked Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana what could be done for a three-storey apartment block in Inuvik which has two floors rented out to Housing NWT clients. He said he receives regular...
Julian Morse calls for NWT to improve respite care supports
February 6, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...planned public housing building and new shelter and sobering centre. He suggested that could be named the Whitford Healing Centre. Housing minister Lucy Kuptana said Housing NWT is looking into whether naming buildings across the NWT “for people that have done great service for the Northwest Territories...
N.W.T. government won’t say how much rent it pays on its own building
January 15, 2025
CBC North - ...in many cases it was unable to find evidence of any conflict-of-interest declaration forms involving people bidding on projects. Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana said she's glad to see the government is working toward improving the systems in place for large infrastruture projects. "We don't have many new...
Police now work with housing officials to oust traffickers, rowdy tenants from public housing units
November 1, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...to a succession of Housing Ministers to do something to make life peaceful for law-abiding tenants. In the Assembly on Friday, Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana said in the 2023-2024 fiscal year, the Rental Officer issued 63 Eviction Orders to public housing tenants, with 18 of those evicted. Of those...
Noise, partying and deaths at Tuk home reported to rental office
October 21, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...complexes. “There’s likely about seven units that still require repairs,” Rodgers said in the legislature as he pressed housing minister Lucy Kuptana to find more money to speed up that process. “And I say this because we do have some folks living in our apartment building, that Housing leases,...
State memorial service for former Commissioner Tony Whitford tomorrow
October 18, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...Whitford Building, which would be a fitting honor for a man for a building that was built to give people hope and dignity.” Minister of Housing Lucy Kuptana said she needs to examine the naming process and will discuss the request with cabinet. As a large number of mourners are expected, an overflow...
Infrastructure top of mind as N.W.T. MLAs head into fall session
October 17, 2024
CBC North - ...Wednesday. "We're almost a year in, so we want to see some substantial investments, new investments being made into housing across the territory." Lucy Kuptana, minister of housing, has already said her department is going to need to get some money approved to set up a temporary camp to address a lack of...
Premier, ministers, mayor meet over Yellowknife encampment
August 20, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...form of solution” before winter. 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...
Edzo Elders spend their pension on Housing NWT arrears
July 3, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...School Survivors.” While Housing NWT cannot garnish pensions to pay arrears, Canada Revenue Agency tax returns can be garnished, housing minister Lucy Kuptana told Cabin Radio. “We don’t garnish any pensions. We can garnish any other income,” said Kuptana. “It would be a court order.” Further,...
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...
After Fort Resolution fire, MLA wants more emergency supports
May 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...people. McKay said his department would assist the hamlet administrator in reviewing insurance coverage. Edjericon also asked housing minister Lucy Kuptana whether the duplexes destroyed in Fort Resolution could be replaced with stick-built homes. “The chief in Fort Resolution made it very clear over...
NWT’s new ministers face community leaders’ annual ‘bear pit’
March 6, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...the funding will be a little better.” This year’s bear pit didn’t quite feature the full cast of cabinet members. Caroline Wawzonek and Lucy Kuptana, the infrastructure and housing ministers respectively, were unable to attend. Deputy infrastructure minister Steve Loutitt and Housing NWT...
Housing should be fundamental right in N.W.T., MLAs say
February 29, 2024
CBC North - ...U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights , and Canada's National Housing Strategy Act . Cabinet abstained from the vote, but Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana says the federal government is responsible for meeting its own legal obligations on housing. She said the need for more, and better homes is well...