2023 NWT Election
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Caroline Wawzonek
Candidate in the Yellowknife South Yellowknife race.
Caroline can be reached at caroline@carolinewawzonek.ca.
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Hawkins ordered to withdraw remarks aimed at Morgan
March 11, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...28, Thompson inadvertently mixed up regular MLA Morgan’s Yellowknife North district with Yellowknife South, the constituency of cabinet member Caroline Wawzonek. Hawkins, in an apparent jab related to regular MLAs voting with cabinet, was heard to make reference to the two being “the same thing.” ...
Problems, solutions emerge in hearing on closure of 19 Community Learning Centres
March 7, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...order to take the pressure off the cost of living in the community which faces high prices due to the shipping costs.” However, Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek said a 200-kilometre ice road from Yellowknife to the East Arm of Great Slave Lake would be expensive and extremely difficult to construct and...
Ice road to Łútsël K’é now ‘even more necessary,’ MLA says
March 7, 2025
Cabin Radio - ... Edjericon on Thursday called for the NWT government to commit to a feasibility study on the project as soon as possible. Infrastructure minister Caroline Wawzonek said building a winter road between Yellowknife and Łútsël K’é could cost between $7 million and $8 million annually, based on the cost of...
‘No new sources’ to replenish Arctic Energy Alliance funds
March 5, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...electric vehicle rebates this coming year – deleting the $153,000 it set aside last year. In the legislature on Monday, infrastructure minister Caroline Wawzonek said the GNWT had raised the disappearing federal funding with Ottawa counterparts. “I suspect – given the state of affairs in shift, or likely...
NWT’s chief electoral officer to be reappointed
March 5, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...its plans leading up to the next territorial election in 2027. The legislature’s five-person board of management – MLAs Caitlin Cleveland, Caroline Wawzonek, Robert Hawkins, Shane Thompson and Richard Edjericon – said it had determined Dunbar’s “leadership and contributions warranted his...
MLA’s social media post doesn’t affect finance minister’s work, N.W.T. Speaker rules
March 4, 2025
CBC North - ...on the work of the assembly and less on arguing. Speaker Shane Thompson made the ruling Monday on a point of privilege raised by Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek, who argued that comments made on social media by MLA Kieron Testart impede Wawzonek's ability to engage freely with MLAs. A point of privilege is...
Speaker to MLAs: ‘We were not elected to quarrel and bicker’
March 3, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...Government. In ruling that a Facebook post last week by Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart did not undermine Finance and Infrastructure Minister Caroline Wawzonek’s ability to do here job, Speaker Shane Thompson tried to put a lid on the burgeoning turmoil among some members of cabinet and Regular MLAs. ...
‘I expect more of you,’ speaker says of NWT MLAs
March 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Thompson on Monday urged the territory’s politicians to do better as he addressed a recent complaint from one MLA about another. Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek told the speaker last week that she felt a Facebook post by Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart had put “a chill on all relationships as elected...
MLA pushes for Inuvik’s airport to add security screening
March 3, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...was announced several years ago. The terminal was initially scheduled to open in 2024 before the work was pushed back. Infrastructure minister Caroline Wawzonek said the design for the new terminal “is meant to balance both the current needs and future opportunities” but added she didn’t have the...
Cell service dead zones, cash for communities and another upset MLA round out the week
February 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...as well, and it must be improved. “The volume of traffic continues to increase, and this is a serious safety issue.” Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek said the GNWT is dependent on Northwestel, the main provider of cell services. But Wawzonek noted while erecting cell towers to cover the hundreds...
Norman Wells is ‘a community living in fear,’ says Sahtu MLA
February 28, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...– Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon, passed and now cabinet has 120 days to respond. At the start of proceedings on Thursday, Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek raised a point of privilege, asserting that a Facebook post by Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart implied that the ongoing budget process involves...
Testart defends ‘rhetorical flourishes’ after minister’s complaint
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...motion. Testart’s post that evening received three shares and a handful of comments. In the legislature on Thursday, finance minister Caroline Wawzonek said Testart’s post implied that “the vote on the motion was the result of backroom deals and that the advancement of discussions about the...
Budget must improve lives in small communities, says Yakeleya
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...sharing their views on the budget. The territorial government released its proposed 2025-26 operating budget earlier this month. Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek said it focuses on “using the resources that we have for change” during a time of uncertainty. Four regular MLAs had already suggested the...
MLAs narrowly defeat bid to remove $5.25M from ECE’s budget
February 27, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...education, especially in small communities, but by taking money away from small communities, we’re not going to get there.” Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek characterized the motion as an attempt to force a change on the fly without any time to analyze what the actual consequences might be. Morse, in...
N.W.T. minister defends government’s decision not to disclose costs related to former hospital building
February 13, 2025
CBC North - ...from the auditor general that the territorial government rejects. At the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, Morgan pressed Infrastructure Minister Caroline Wawzonek on why the government won't accept that final recommendation. "Who or what are we protecting by refusing to acknowledge mistakes," Morgan asked. ...