2023 NWT Election
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Caroline Wawzonek
Candidate in the Yellowknife South Yellowknife race.
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NWT goes back to Ottawa for more Fort Prov transmission line cash
June 2, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...it hoped to have the transmission line built and operational by the spring of 2026. However, that has changed again. In the legislature last week, Caroline Wawzonek – in her new role as minister of “strategic infrastructure, energy and supply chains” – said the GNWT has now asked for 100-percent federal...
Hydro plant back to full power after 18 months of ‘unknown’ faults
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...joint energy and climate change strategy that will address reliability of power generation in the territory, among other issues. Jay Macdonald and Caroline Wawzonek said a joint strategy will arrive in 2026. “Our power infrastructure is ageing and increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change,”...
MLAs vote to examine tightening their social media rules
May 29, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Thompson is in charge of enforcing it, but does not expressly address social media or how MLAs communicate online. In February, finance minister Caroline Wawzonek asked Thompson to intervene over a Kieron Testart Facebook post that the premier said was part of a “campaign of intimidation.” After Testart...
Coast guard heads out to determine Mackenzie’s 2025 navigability
May 28, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Highway.” The highway would offer an all-season resupply route for Sahtu communities, removing reliance on barges and the Mackenzie River. Caroline Wawzonek in the legislature on May 28, 2025. Responding to questions from McNeely, minister Caroline Wawzonek said the GNWT was “reviewing an update to a...
Morgan’s nurses’ bargaining bill passes second reading
May 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...affirming their shared commitment to advancing “thoughtful and effective legislative amendments” to the Public Service Act. Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek said Morgan’s bill touches on an issue that is “important and deeply felt”...
MLAs turn up volume in NWT Assembly; Speaker’s temper blows
May 25, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...letter that she’s got from Premier (R.J.) Simpson, then would the ECE Minister resign here today?” He was cut short as Yellowknife South MLA Caroline Wawzonek, who is also Deputy Premier, stood on point of order. She said Edjericon had “overstepped the bounds” and his words were “not fair … not...
Shauna Morgan introduces nurses’ collective bargaining bill
May 25, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...the UNW/PSAC remain fully committed to advancing thoughtful and effective legislative amendments,” read the statement, signed by finance minister Caroline Wawzonek, UNW president Gayla Thunstrom and PSAC regional executive vice-president Josée-Anne Spirito. “We believe that a collaborative approach,...
‘Colonial mindset’ preventing return of child’s remains to her community, says N.W.T. MLA
May 23, 2025
CBC North - ... Edjericon said that he was "saddened" by Cleveland's response and said that government policies were overriding treaties and Indigenous values. Caroline Wawzonek, acting as premier in R.J. Simpson's absence, called a point of order on those comments. She said Edjericon had overstepped and made inferences...
MLAs in emotional exchanges over residential school burial sites
May 22, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...governments to advance reconciliation, Edjericon raised the prospect of the minister resigning. As he did so, Cleveland’s cabinet colleague Caroline Wawzonek – acting in Premier RJ Simpson’s absence (he is at the western premiers’ conference) – rose immediately from her seat on a point of order. ...
Confederation, diamonds and cargo up for discussion as Assembly returns
May 22, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...they bring heard from a couple of MLAs who questioned the plan. In the Assembly, Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan asked Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek to, “explain whether the commitment to use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain operations represents any change whatsoever from the status...
Health care, wildfire report in spotlight as N.W.T. MLAs begin 7-day spring sitting
May 21, 2025
CBC North - ...to create a separate emergency management agency. Education could also be a significant focus during this sitting. In March, Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek said the government would have a strategy related to continued education in smaller communities after Aurora College announced in January it would...
Inuvik passes motion to open town liquor store on Sundays
May 20, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...store’s hours of operation for the summer, including some opening hours on Sundays. On April 29, the town received a letter from finance minister Caroline Wawzonek – whose department oversees the management of liquor in the NWT – asking for comments or concerns about the town liquor store’s request for...
Nurses’ survey records support for separate collective agreement
May 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...with the UNW and PSAC. As with other major legislative undertakings, we will also engage employees and the public at large,” finance minister Caroline Wawzonek stated. The statement – which did not directly address Morgan’s private member’s bill – suggested the GNWT plans to have its own review of...
Premier backs Semmler as 3 MLAs float idea of removing her
May 9, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...to them, and are understandably frustrated at the apparent lack of uptake on their ideas.” Morse said Premier Simpson and the deputy premier, Caroline Wawzonek, need to be more closely involved. “I see cabinet as a team and expect them to support one another on critical files, particularly this one,”...
‘It’s going to hit people really hard’: Housing N.W.T. hiking rent by hundreds of dollars for some units
May 1, 2025
CBC North - ... The email also said that rent revenues are "crucial for program funding, especially with declining federal support." In March, Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek committed an additional $41.6 million in the territorial budget to Housing N.W.T., "to make much needed investments in public housing." Housing for...