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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Changes in GNWT’s minister duties and leadership announced
March 31, 2025
My Yellow Knife Now - ...Minister Responsible for the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission, and Minister Responsible for the Public Utilities Board. Minister Lucy Kuptana will continue her role as Minister Responsible for Housing Northwest Territories. Minister Kuptana will now oversee the NWT Homelessness Strategy,...
N.W.T. premier creates new ministry for ‘major, nation-building’ infrastructure projects
March 31, 2025
CBC North - ...Indigenous partnerships will be essential to advancing these priority projects," the release states. Simpson also said Monday that Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana will now be responsible for the N.W.T. homelessness strategy. The move is "part of ongoing efforts to strengthen coordination and support around...
NWT premier announces cabinet shuffle
March 31, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Board. Responsibility for the territory’s homelessness strategy will move from the Department of Executive and Indigenous Affairs to Housing NWT. Lucy Kuptana is the minister responsible for the housing corporation while Simpson is the minister of Executive and Indigenous Affairs. Monday’s release...
N.W.T. budget passes with $41.6M addition to housing
March 14, 2025
CBC North - ...homes will change lives and this investment means that more N.W.T. families will have a safe and comfortable place to call home," Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana told reporters in a news conference after Thursday's session. She said that each region would see the benefits of that investment, but couldn't yet...
The NWT’s budget has new housing cash. What will it buy?
March 14, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...done. “Now we have that funding, and now we can open up these units and we can reduce waitlists in the communities,” he said. Housing minister Lucy Kuptana told reporters on Thursday night: “This critical investment will support the replacement of aged public housing units and address needed repairs...
Private smoking in public housing to be butted out across the NWT
March 14, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...to be implemented in a staged approach for Housing NWT-owned units, including market rentals Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana on Thursday told the NWT Assembly smoking will not be permitted in all new buildings and in any new or amended leases for existing public housing and market rentals. She said:...
New transitional housing project opens in Yellowknife
March 10, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...residents of Yellowknife. After the program takes off in the next few months, people from all over the territory will be accepted. Housing minister Lucy Kuptana. Aastha Sethi/Cabin Radio Tony Brushett, left, and Yellowknife Mayor Rebecca Alty. Aastha Sethi/Cabin Radio Brushett said the house, acquired last...
5-bedroom transitional home opens in Yellowknife for people back from addictions treatment
March 10, 2025
CBC North - ...services for people returning from treatment. "We are not just opening a building. We are opening up a new chapter of hope and healing," said Lucy Kuptana, the N.W.T.'s housing minister. The home will have staff with training in addictions treatment on-site 24 hours a day. (Sarah Krymalowski) ...
Housing NWT sometimes evicts tenants in winter. MLA asks why notices served in coldest months
March 6, 2025
CBC North - ...were sixteen in Yellowknife, 14 in Inuvik, 11 in Délı̨nę and eight in Fort Providence. Dehcho MLA Sheryl Yakeleya pressed Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana in the Legislative Assembly last month about why the housing corporation seeks eviction orders against public housing tenants in the coldest months...
NWT ministers tackle questions in annual ‘bear pit’
March 6, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...1. Aastha Sethi/Cabin Radio Simpson said the GNWT is also expanding its stock of transitional housing through federal funding. Housing minister Lucy Kuptana said her government is refining its policies around evictions, adding that a majority of those occur as a result of illegal activity inside public...
In the NWT, who received a King Charles III Coronation Medal?
March 5, 2025
Cabin Radio - The King Charles III Coronation Medal – commemorating the 2023 coronation of Canada’s monarch – is being awarded to a total of 30,000 people across the country, including 4,000 members of the armed forces. An exhaustive list of every Northwest Territories resident to receive a medal is not readily available. Many of the recipients received their medals at a ceremony inside the NWT Legislative Assembly last week. If you know of an NWT resident who received the medal through another organization and is not listed below, tell us and we’ll confirm it then add them to the list. Medal recipients’ names are as they were provided to us by the nominating office, and recipients are listed in the order provided to us.
Speaker to MLAs: ‘We were not elected to quarrel and bicker’
March 3, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...look forward to answering some questions in that regard.” And Sahtu MLA Danny received what he called “wonderful news” from Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana about housing materials successfully being trucked North on the winter road: “The volume of material being shipped over the winter road … the...
Tłı̨chǫ communities to receive 10 new housing units
February 25, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...by the spring. “There is no question that housing challenges in the NWT require a collaborative approach,” territorial housing minister Lucy Kuptana stated. “By working with Indigenous governments and organizations, we can maximize investments, create more opportunities for northerners, and...
New public housing units in Behchokǫ̀, N.W.T. expected to welcome tenants next month
February 24, 2025
CBC North - ...like the microwave, low down so it is more easily accessible if the tenant is in a wheelchair. (Luke Carroll/CBC) Territorial Housing Minister Lucy Kuptana says the seniors and the bachelor units were a collaboration between Housing NWT and the Tłı̨chǫ Investment Corporation. "Anytime there's...
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...