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Caitlin Cleveland

Candidate in the Kam Lake Yellowknife race.

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MLAs endorse call for federal aid to Norman Wells

February 28, 2025

Cabin Radio - ...community planning” for the town. All 10 regular MLAs present backed the motion. All six ministers present abstained. (Industry minister Caitlin Cleveland is away attending national trade meetings.) The motion passing does not automatically mean a state of emergency is declared or federal aid will be...

N.W.T. nominee program reopening day brings uncertainty for many

February 28, 2025

CBC North - ...the N.W.T. cancels your driver's licence and health-care card, adding to more frustration," she said. Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment Caitlin Cleveland said foreign nationals on maintained status are eligible to extend their health-care coverage and drivers licences with valid proof that they are on...

Nominee program reopens in NWT after six-month pause

February 27, 2025

Cabin Radio - ...pre-screening of all submitted applications. Planning for 2026 With only 90 spaces left for the year, MLAs this week asked minister responsible Caitlin Cleveland about the program and its future. “I don’t think anybody across the country expected their allocations to be cut in half,” Cleveland told...

Bullying on rise beyond our borders thanks to ‘odious’ American president, says MLA

February 27, 2025

CKLB 101.9 - ...NWT Assembly marks Pink Shirt Day, calls made to speak up for equality and acceptance of everyone Education, Culture and Employment Minister Caitlin Cleveland issued a statement on Pink Shirt Day about how important it is for everyone to feel safe and accepted for who they are. “By wearing pink, we promote...

How NWT MLAs have voted in the 20th Assembly so far

February 27, 2025

Cabin Radio - ...College to spend on community learning centres that the college no longer intends to operate. Cabinet opposed the motion with education minister Caitlin Cleveland querying the math. She argued deleting the funding would have broader negative consequences that Hawkins was overlooking. Morgan said she opposed...

First Nation urges respectful return of residential school children

February 27, 2025

Cabin Radio - ...so that Indigenous children and culture and traditions are upheld and the remains of these children are treated with the utmost respect.” Caitlin Cleveland, the minister of education, culture and employment, told Edjericon the territory’s justice department had provided the legal opinion that the...

MLAs narrowly defeat bid to remove $5.25M from ECE’s budget

February 27, 2025

Cabin Radio - ...not vote and nor did Speaker of the House Shane Thompson.) Cabinet appeared not to have received advance notice of the motion. Education minister Caitlin Cleveland, responding to it on the floor of the House, said the motion would simply delete $5.25 million from the department’s funding without actually...

New mining legislation for N.W.T. expected to come into force in 2027

February 27, 2025

CBC North - ...during a public briefing of the territory's economic development and environment committee on Wednesday. The presentation was delivered by Caitlin Cleveland, minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment, along with deputy minister Pamela Strand and assistant deputy minister Menzie McEachern. McEachern...

Ancestral remains at Fort Resolution residential school site can’t be moved

February 26, 2025

CKLB 101.9 - ...Memorial Register listed that 75 students died while attending St. Joseph’s Residential School. Education, Culture and Employment Minister Caitlin Cleveland said ancestral remains from that time are protected under the Archeological Sites Act, which is in the process of being updated. That work is being...

‘Why is our Indigenous population subject to these deplorable conditions?’

February 12, 2025

CKLB 101.9 - ...learning and they don’t need to leave culture, community and traditional knowledge behind to gain further education.” Education Minister Caitlin Cleveland praised the hard work done by Dechinta executive director Kelsey Wrightson and said the process is underway on a multi-year funding agreement...

Questions fly over health-care ‘czar,’ future of learning centres

February 11, 2025

CKLB 101.9 - ...of the Northwest Territories, and yet they do not know what the immediate future holds for them and their families.” Education Minister Caitlin Cleveland said the decision was the board’s to make, although she does believe some joint communication between the GNWT and College needs to take place to...

Community Learning Centre closures decried by Regular MLAs

February 9, 2025

CKLB 101.9 - ...MLA Jane Weyallon Armstrong says there was no consultation about the end of the program Several Regular MLAs schooled Education Minister Caitlin Cleveland in the NWT Assembly last week on the ramifications of Aurora College’s recent decision to close all Community Learning Centres. Aurora College is...

What’s the plan for adult learning in small N.W.T. communities? MLAs want to know

February 8, 2025

CBC North - ...College announced in January it would shut 19 community learning centres? That's the question MLAs asked Education, Culture and Employment Minister Caitlin Cleveland at the Legislative Assembly on Friday. "These closures unfairly target Indigenous communities and will make education less accessible for...

Q&A: Closing Aurora College’s community learning centres

January 27, 2025

Cabin Radio - ...last year. Handley said the GNWT “was certainly told through the education department and we’ve had these discussions with the minister,” Caitlin Cleveland, before last week’s announcement. “She knew it was likely coming,” he said of Cleveland. There is uncertainty around what happens to the...

NWT’s film rebate program budget doubling to $1M next year

November 8, 2024

Cabin Radio - ...budget will be doubled from $500,000 this year to $1 million in 2025-26 and future years, the territory said on Friday. Industry minister Caitlin Cleveland called the expansion “a major milestone.” Music videos and commercials will be supported by the film rebate program for the first time, the...