2023 NWT Election
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Caroline Wawzonek
Candidate in the Yellowknife South Yellowknife race.
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Carney scraps parts of Canada’s carbon tax, NWT response not clear
March 14, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...means the equivalent portions of the territory’s tax also immediately end. The NWT government has been approached for comment. Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek has previously suggested her department could use the same strategy Carney appeared to use on Friday: dropping the tax to zero, a move that does not...
N.W.T. budget passes with $41.6M addition to housing
March 14, 2025
CBC North - ... "This is probably the single biggest budgetary change, that I'm certainly aware of, ever being made, but we're proud of it," Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek said in the legislature. "It's one that does reflect the priorities of the assembly and I thank my colleagues for getting us here." The new...
The NWT’s budget has new housing cash. What will it buy?
March 14, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...for housing, spread over three years. Here’s what to expect from that cash. New money will arrive over the next three years. Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek has added $41.6 million to the 2025-26 budget for housing, which – on top of existing commitments – will give Housing NWT $50 million to spend...
Private smoking in public housing to be butted out across the NWT
March 14, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...are tied. They are fighting a losing battle.” Also on Thursday, the final day of the session before members return on May 22, Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek announced an additional $41.6 million was added for housing in Budget 2025-26. That amount will be added to the $2.5 billion for GNWT programs and...
With added housing cash, NWT’s 2025-26 budget comfortably passes
March 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Thursday evening, coming through the House in a 15-3 vote. The initial draft of the budget had been amended earlier in the week. Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek added $41.6 million in housing cash following discussion with regular MLAs, alongside smaller amendments. There are further spending commitments on...
Motion to halt Indigenous Employment Policy is defeated
March 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...Morse. He asked why a policy 30 years old had to be amended now without more time to “build consensus around a new policy.” Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek, by contrast, said those decades had been spent almost continually returning to affirmative action, examining it, consulting on it and trying to...
NWT adds $41M in housing spending to draft budget
March 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...NWT’s finance minister says she will add more than $41 million in new housing money to the territory’s latest budget, among other spending. Caroline Wawzonek announced the changes to the NWT government’s 2025-26 draft operating budget in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday afternoon. She said the...
Some MLAs still critical of Indigenous Employment Policy
March 11, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...members of the public and regular MLAs that the policy would fail to prioritize Indigenous northerners, among other concerns, finance minister Caroline Wawzonek proposed implementing a “two-tier system.” Under that system, she said, the new policy will give first priority to recognized members or...
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. ...