2023 NWT Election
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Caitlin Cleveland
Candidate in the Kam Lake Yellowknife race.
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Jordan’s Principle funding shortfalls fail students with loss of teaching assistants
May 29, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...opportunity, she risks becoming the first education Minister in the North leaving education in worse shape than she found it. Education Minister Caitlin Cleveland said she is travelling to Ottawa next week to meet with her federal counterparts. “When this program was introduced, and over the last number of...
Impacts of Jordan’s principle funding cuts already evident in N.W.T. community
May 29, 2025
CBC North - ... In 2024, the education department funded 127 support assistants. The other 205 were funded by Jordan's Principle. Edjericon asked Caitlin Cleveland, N.W.T. Minister of Education, how she is working with community school boards and First Nations to restore funding. Cleveland said she has a close...
Northern ministers to lobby Ottawa over Jordan’s Principle changes
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Nunavut and Yukon will tell Ottawa changes to Jordan’s Principle funding must be reassessed as the territories cannot make up the difference, Caitlin Cleveland said on Wednesday. Jordan’s Principle is a legal obligation the federal government is required to fulfill to ensure that First Nations children...
GNWT to launch ‘third-party investigation’ over school lead tests
May 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Radio on Wednesday, and received follow-up samples stating the same thing in April. In the legislature on Wednesday afternoon, education minister Caitlin Cleveland said she shared parents’ concerns about the news. “I was notified of this project and the results on Monday evening. Immediately from there [I]...
Minister starts investigation into ‘unacceptable’ school lead situation
May 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...minister Caitlin Cleveland says she’s launching an immediate independent investigation into the circumstances around tests that found elevated lead in the water at two Yellowknife schools. In a statement released at 9pm on Wednesday, Cleveland said she was “deeply concerned by the recent test results...
N.W.T. minister heading to Ottawa next week to follow up on nominee program changes
May 28, 2025
CBC North - ...about redesigning the the nominee program on behalf of people anticipating 2026 applications. Education, Culture and Employment Minister Caitlin Cleveland will travel to Ottawa next week. The Northwest Territories Nominee Program already saw changes earlier this year . Federally imposed cuts meant the...
Residents, downtown homeless campers ‘all have to get along,’ says Premier R.J. Simpson
May 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...Lake North school received news that drinking water in those schools was higher than allowed under Health Canada’s guidelines. Education Minister Caitlin Cleveland said all school water systems were tested, and two of the schools came back as needing confirmation testing. The Departments of Education and...
Cleveland to lobby in Ottawa for more nominee program slots
May 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - Caitlin Cleveland says she will fly to Ottawa next week as she seeks the restoration of a 300-applicant cap for the NWT’s main immigration program. Cleveland, the minister responsible for immigration in the territory, told the legislature this week she has been in touch with new federal counterpart Lena Diab. ...
YK school lead tests were first of their kind, minister says
May 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...lead levels beyond Health Canada guidelines. In the legislature on Tuesday afternoon, Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan asked education minister Caitlin Cleveland when the two schools’ water was last tested for lead in this manner. While communities’ drinking water is routinely tested, Cleveland...
MLAs turn up volume in NWT Assembly; Speaker’s temper blows
May 25, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...work together on that.” Edjericon withdrew his comments. Thompson cut time for Oral Questions short. Education, Culture and Employment Minister Caitlin Cleveland told the Assembly: “The Act, as I have indicated before, the language in it, does need to be updated. It wasn’t drafted long ago under the...
Tin Can Hill won’t be a territorial park. How about a city park?
May 24, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...convened. His adult equivalent, Kate Reid, gave Penney’s statement a second airing in the legislature on Thursday and asked tourism minister Caitlin Cleveland about the prospect of Tin Can Hill gaining park status. Parts of the hill, a prominent piece of Yellowknife green space, had been earmarked for a...
‘Colonial mindset’ preventing return of child’s remains to her community, says N.W.T. MLA
May 23, 2025
CBC North - ...And if she becomes a property of the state, what symbolism does that represent, that Indigenous people are a property of the state?" Hawkins said. Caitlin Cleveland, the minister of Education, Culture and Employment, emphasized that neither she nor her department wants to stand in the way of Alma's remains, or...
Testart calls on minister to act on Fort Simpson school issues
May 23, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Lake MLA Kieron Testart questioned education minister Caitlin Cleveland on Thursday about “very serious concerns” brought to his attention during a visit to Fort Simpson. The administration at Líídlįį Kúę Elementary School has come under recent scrutiny, with some parents saying staff have not...
MLAs in emotional exchanges over residential school burial sites
May 22, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...asked for a pause on Thursday as an MLA raised his concern that legislation appears to term residential school burials “archaeological sites.” Caitlin Cleveland was being questioned by Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon about the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation’s assertion that the territorial government...
Yellowknife youth MLAs focus on Frame Lake, Tin Can Hill
May 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Liyah Yakeleya-Grymaloski, left. Photo: Robert Hawkins Elsewhere, Kam Lake youth MLA Liyah Yakeleya-Grymaloski – stepping into education minister Caitlin Cleveland’s shoes for the week – praised the NWT’s recent adoption of the BC curriculum. Range Lake’s Tendesai Mufandaedza described her creation of...