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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N.W.T. officials meet with Fort Smith jail staff before funding expires next year
October 30, 2024
CBC North - ...year, and the territorial government says its senior staff is helping employees prepare. In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek said senior staff with the departments of Finance and Justice met with jail staff to help them understand their options. A partial closure of the...
NWT public servants’ morale ‘at rock bottom,’ says MLA and former union leader
October 24, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...pay raises, it also provides Indigenous staff with four days of paid cultural leave annually. In response to Reid’s questioning, Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek provided a sneak peak into the 2023 to 24 Public Service Annual Report, which she planned to table next week. “I can tell you that it’s going...
NWT’s regular MLAs want capital budget to better reflect priorities
October 24, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...MLAs say they won’t support the NWT’s latest capital budget unless it dedicates more funding to housing and healthcare. Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek tabled the capital estimates for 2025-26 last week, detailing how the government plans to spend $339 million on infrastructure projects in the...
Deh Cho Bridge repair ‘to cost $7M and be finished by end of year’
October 23, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...lanes of the Deh Cho Bridge will finally reopen by the end of 2024, infrastructure minister Caroline Wawzonek said on Tuesday. The bridge, which cost $200 million to build, spans the Mackenzie River just outside Fort Providence, providing a year-round highway link between Yellowknife and the south. Traffic...
N.W.T.’s Deh Cho bridge expected to be repaired by year’s end, to the tune of $7M
October 23, 2024
CBC North - ...summer , and later pushed to October , but the infrastructure minister said there was a delay in getting the necessary materials up to Yellowknife. Caroline Wawzonek, the minister of infrastructure, said those materials have now been shipped and are expected in early November. She said the bridge should be fully...
Campus of Care move created ‘lasting chaos, inefficiency and burnout,’ says MLA
October 22, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...of the NWT and for tourism and other industries, as this is a year-round highway linking Yellowknife to the South.” Infrastructure Minister Caroline Wawzonek explained the original damage was originally noticed in 2023 and after testing, turned out to be a weak metal connector holding the cables to the...
N.W.T. MLAs say capital budget doesn’t reflect housing priorities, again
October 22, 2024
CBC North - ...to solve the housing crisis. Requested debt increase to fund capital projects Before tabling the capital estimates on Oct. 18, Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek told the assembly that the N.W.T. is in the process of asking the federal government to increase its borrowing limit. That debt, if approved, will...
Drug-fuelled violence in Fort McPherson has MLA pleading for help
October 21, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...goods. It is also affecting opportunities for leisure drivers to leave their communities and for visitors to safely arrive. Infrastructure Minister Caroline Wawzonek confirmed there were some delays getting the roads in shape after unusually high snowfall in the northern regions. There were also some delays as...
GNWT donates $150K to Norman Wells food bank
October 21, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...government announced it planned to nearly double a seniors’ home heating subsidy for eligible residents in Norman Wells. Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek has called on Imperial Oil – which runs an oil field in Norman Wells and supplies the community’s fuel – to “step up” and support...
N.W.T.’s new net-zero climate target necessary for its mining future says MLA
October 19, 2024
CBC North - ...and transportation make up 84 per cent of the N.W.T.'s emissions. (Liny Lamberink/CBC) In an interview earlier this week, Infrastructure Minister Caroline Wawzonek said renewable diesel and changing energy policy "needs to happen." She also said electrification would probably be the "easiest response" but that...
Imperial should ‘step up,’ minister says as MLAs debate Sahtu fuel crisis
October 18, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...a community it has drawn profit from for decades – get through the town’s current fuel crisis, the NWT’s finance minister said on Thursday. Caroline Wawzonek said this is a time for Imperial “to step up” as residents report heating fuel bills that now cost more than their entire monthly salaries. ...
MLAs debate financial relief for N.W.T’s Sahtu region, gripped by affordability crisis
October 18, 2024
CBC North - ...their prices at any time." She said that's an unsustainable precedent and it wouldn't support residents in the long run. 'A cheque to whom?' Caroline Wawzonek, the minister of finance and deputy premier, said it's also just not that simple. "A cheque to whom, and a cheque to what amount?" Wawzonek asked...
‘We are in a dire situation right now,’ says Deputy Premier Caroline Wawzonek
October 17, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart. At the time of this posting last evening, the debate was ongoing, with Deputy Premier and Minister of Infrastructure Caroline Wawzonek saying that everyone, including cabinet, supports Norman Wells, and that it is “a crisis, it’s a hub community … this is going to affect the...
N.W.T. gov’t commits to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050
October 17, 2024
CBC North - ...N.W.T. government has committed to reaching a more ambitious climate target. Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek laid out the territory's promise to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 from both industrial and non-industrial emitters in a budget document tabled — without any fanfare — at the Legislative...
Infrastructure top of mind as N.W.T. MLAs head into fall session
October 17, 2024
CBC North - ...that it offers." The facility is scheduled to be completed by 2026. Addressing energy needs The capital budget process is especially hectic for Caroline Wawzonek as she's both minister of infrastructure and finance. In wearing both hats for the past year, she says she's come to realize how complex the...