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Caitlin Cleveland

Candidate in the Kam Lake Yellowknife race.

Caitlin can be reached at CaitlinclevelandMLA@gmail.com.

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N.W.T. gov’t is failing students with cut to financial aid, MLA says

September 5, 2024

CBC North - ...but that changed to include all residents who have student loans with the GNWT. In a social media post on Wednesday, Education Minister Caitlin Cleveland explained the decision to cut the Northern Bonus, and what it means for students. She emphasized that other student financial assistance supports...

Minister says axing ‘fast-forward’ bonus may keep people in NWT

September 5, 2024

Cabin Radio - ...a maximum of $10,000 if people met the criteria year after year, said losing it meant losing one reason to stay in the NWT. But education minister Caitlin Cleveland said she sees it differently. Cleveland said the northern bonus had “acted like a fast forward,” implying that the faster people’s loans were...

N.W.T. gov’t cuts loan forgiveness incentive for returning students

September 4, 2024

CBC North - ...of [the incentive] was a difficult decision, but a necessary one as part of the GNWT's review of its fiscal capacity," wrote Education Minister Caitlin Cleveland in a news release Wednesday. The Northern Bonus incentive first launched in 2015 to attract more graduates to the territory. It was applied to...

NWT signs memo on ‘northern economic corridors’ with Alberta

July 4, 2024

Cabin Radio - ...a four-month period. Recognizing Alberta’s role in helping manage the NWT’s evacuations during last year’s wildfire crisis, industry minister Caitlin Cleveland said the memo also “lays the foundation for improved collaboration on other shared interests, including emergency response.” While the video...

Edzo Elders spend their pension on Housing NWT arrears

July 3, 2024

Cabin Radio - ...has called on the territorial government to forgive the debts of Elders and residential school survivors. In the legislature last year, fellow MLA Caitlin Cleveland said more than 900 residents owed more than $13 million to Housing NWT in arrears. Then-MLA Kevin O’Reilly said Weyallon Armstrong’s proposal...

Will Great Slave Lake ever be renamed? It could be a while yet, says N.W.T. minister

July 3, 2024

CBC North - ...it could be a lengthy process. "We can't really put a timeline on it, because it is not the government that is in the driver's seat of this one," Caitlin Cleveland, the N.W.T.'s Education, Culture and Employment minister, said. For years, Indigenous people in the N.W.T. have been working to decolonize names....

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...

Sahtu economy ‘faces collapse’ without barge re-supply, says MLA Daniel McNeely

June 7, 2024

CKLB 101.9 - ...and vehicle engines – which normally sells for $75 a case is now $400 a case. McNeely told Industry Tourism and Investment (ITI) Minister Caitlin Cleveland the Sahtu’s business community is in dire need of support. “I look to the Minister … to find ways to support Sahtu businesses to keep the...

Could renewable diesel power NWT’s green ideals?

June 7, 2024

CKLB 101.9 - ...The Minister pointed to recent changes to the NWT’s Income Assistance program. Perhaps the most informative Q&A was between Industry Minister Caitlin Cleveland and Shauna Morgan, MLA for Yellowknife North, on the topic of, renewable diesel fuel. Renewable diesel and biodiesel (or green diesel) are not the...

NWT ‘definitely committed’ as Aurora College transformation delayed

May 28, 2024

Cabin Radio - ...for one don’t want to see them teeter over. I want to see them succeed. I want to see our students succeed.” In response, education minister Caitlin Cleveland said the federal government had committed $8 million to the transformation while the territorial government has provided $1 million a year for the...

Minister Wawzonek unveils 2024-45 budget focusing on financial sustainability

May 24, 2024

My Yellow Knife Now - ...have to get creative about how we are using our dollars and make sure that we are getting an impact for the dollars that we are spending,” says Caitlin Cleveland, Minister of Education, Culture, and Employment and Minister of Industry, Tourism, and Investment. “How can I, as a minister, get creative with my...

N.W.T. film industry wants more funding to get projects off the ground

April 19, 2024

CBC North - ...years." Great Slave MLA Kate Reid, who is on the committee that heard the presentation, spoke directly to Industry, Tourism and Investment Minister Caitlin Cleveland during the meeting. "Even if we are in fiscal restraint, this is somewhere where I feel investment is extremely, extremely important and I would...

NWT’s new ministers face community leaders’ annual ‘bear pit’

March 6, 2024

Cabin Radio - ...Steve Loutitt and Housing NWT president Eleanor Young took their place. A delayed flight meant Young, Semmler and education and industry minister Caitlin Cleveland arrived late. Simpson had to leave the formal Q&A a little early to attend another...

The N.W.T. has 11 official languages, yet service in Indigenous languages continues to be a struggle

March 2, 2024

CBC North - ...a complaint. "I think there is the option of doing that, but sometimes people end up thinking, 'What's the point? They don't do anything anyway.'" Caitlin Cleveland, the new N.W.T. minister responsible for official languages, is hoping to change that. "I think there's always room for the territory to grow," she...

NWT Assembly thinks pink against bullies today: Your Daily Update

February 28, 2024

CKLB 101.9 - ...students request at school. It also bans transgender women from competing in women’s sports leagues. Testart questioned Education Minister Caitlin Cleveland: “My friend from Great Slave (MLA Kate Reid) mentioned that other jurisdictions in Canada are taking heartless steps to traumatize and...