2023 NWT Election
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Caroline Wawzonek
Candidate in the Yellowknife South Yellowknife race.
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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...
Hay River’s fish plant to be formally opened on Tuesday
September 8, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...provided by an independent consultant, before it’ll consider moving plant management from FFMC to the fishers. Last year, then-industry minister Caroline Wawzonek said she had set a three-year timeline from the plant’s opening in which she hoped management would be transferred to the fishers. In the...
Residents near encampment needed more support, MLA says
August 23, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...which the encampment must be gone. What happens next “takes a number of us and it’s going to require a lot of coordination,” deputy premier Caroline Wawzonek told CBC North Trailbreaker host Jared Monkman on Friday. “This is an encampment that will last only a short period of time but it needs to be a...
Enterprise rail yard sees ‘bigger picture’ in Hay River line closure
August 9, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...that CN Rail will take a look at their entire capital envelope and consider whether or not this can find a home in it,” infrastructure minister Caroline Wawzonek was quoted as saying in an interview with the CBC this week. “Without this, by forcing communities, our community governments to be finding...
NWT signs memo on ‘northern economic corridors’ with Alberta
July 4, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...will also “jointly advocate to the federal government for nation-building projects along our economic corridors.” NWT infrastructure minister Caroline Wawzonek called the memo a “significant milestone in the relationship” between the territory and Alberta. “This is an opportunity to support the flow...
Edzo Elders spend their pension on Housing NWT arrears
July 3, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...agency employs collections officers to administer the government’s debt collection process. Weyallon Armstrong addressed finance minister Caroline Wawzonek in the legislature about the government’s debt collection practices last month. “With respect to Elders broadly as an individual category, that...
Fix for low-water shipping woes could be ‘lighter than air,’ committee hears
June 28, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...deliveries disrupted up and down the Mackenzie River, alternatives to shipping are lacking at present, says Minister of Finance and Infrastructure Caroline Wawzonek. The senior minister told a committee hearing on Wednesday how she has been pitched alternative cargo transportation concepts, everything from...
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...
After weeks of back and forth, N.W.T. Legislative Assembly passes budget
June 14, 2024
CBC North - ...to displace people from the communities and have them migrate to Yellowknife or other larger regional centres," she said. N.W.T. Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek said the budget was a collective effort. "It's not only about a cash transaction here, it's really about government and how we can be a consensus...
New lab test appointment policy gets failing grade from MLA Julian Morse
June 14, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...presented on May 24, the plan proposed to spend $2.2 billion on programs and services, but pressure from Regular MLAs forced Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek’s hand to spend an additional $13.3 million. A few Budget 2024-2025 highlights: early childhood instructors ($3.5 million ongoing); maintenance...
NWT’s 20th Assembly passes its first budget
June 13, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...in revenue and $48.4 million in planned cuts. MLAs have since spent long nights combing through and debating that financial plan. Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek announced on Wednesday she was revising the budget by adding $13 million in spending following discussions with regular MLAs. That included money to...