2023 NWT Election
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Caroline Wawzonek
Candidate in the Yellowknife South Yellowknife race.
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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...
UNW members protest proposed job cuts outside NWT legislature
June 11, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...cuts, though overall spending would still increase slightly. “We want this government to be sustainable for the long term,” finance minister Caroline Wawzonek told reporters last month. Wawzonek and Premier RJ Simpson have said they are aiming to find $150 million in savings annually by reducing...
NTPC forecast looks bleak with low water levels and skyrocketing diesel
June 11, 2024
CBC North - ...infrastructure some MLAs say the N.W.T. may be facing a crisis. Cory Strang, Northwest Territories Power Corporation (NTPC) president and CEO and Caroline Wawzonek, the minister responsible for NTPC, met with MLAs on Monday to discuss the long list of challenges facing the power corp. To start, the territory's...
The extraordinary scale of the NWT’s shift from hydro to diesel
June 11, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...to take off a shelf and quickly activate. “We can’t continue to go on the way we’ve gone on for 50 years without a sense of urgency,” said Caroline Wawzonek, the minister responsible for the power corporation, during a frank exchange with regular MLAs at Monday’s meeting – in which she came as close...
Renewable diesel could be northern ‘game-changer,’ says N.W.T. MLA
June 10, 2024
CBC North - ...however: Neste Oil says it sells Arctic grade renewable diesel in northern Finland that can be stored at -40 C and can be used down to -44 C. Caroline Wawzonek, the N.W.T.'s infrastructure minister, said in an exchange with Morgan at the Legislative Assembly on Thursday that small volumes of Arctic-grade...
Could renewable diesel power NWT’s green ideals?
June 7, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...in Yellowknife to re-start the program. No timeline was provided. Kieron Testart, MLA for Range Lake, entered into a debate with Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek, over the differences between a Universal Basic Income and Guaranteed Minimum Income. The Minister pointed to recent changes to the NWT’s Income...
NWT government has no plans to develop accessibility act
June 4, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...trying to attract residents to move here and stay, this is one more thing we can do to help make the territory a more attractive place to live.” Caroline Wawzonek, the territory’s infrastructure minister, responded that she had tasked her department with looking at a building standards framework for the...
Taught to be advocates: N.W.T. midwives protest proposed cuts to Yellowknife program
May 31, 2024
CBC North - ...implemented. There have been intermittent periods of midwifery service in the capital but never an established midwifery team. Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek said that's why she proposed the cuts. "If the money is sitting there, $900,000 for something that's not been fully implemented, that's not the...
‘Look outside the box.’ MLA calls for changes to barging service
May 29, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...we are good at government. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’re good at managing businesses,” Rodgers said. ‘Creative solutions’ Caroline Wawzonek, the territory’s infrastructure minister, said the department’s review of MTS will not consider splitting operations. She said the review is,...
NWT’s new budget is ‘a financial Frankenstein’s monster’
May 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...territory’s newly proposed budget “represents difficult choices” to achieve fiscal goals, not everyone agrees those are the right choices. Caroline Wawzonek unveiled the first budget of the 20th Assembly late last week, which she described as “not a ribbon-cutting budget.” Asked to explain what that...
N.W.T.’s 2024 operating budget gets mixed reviews from MLAs, advocates
May 25, 2024
CBC North - ...were mixed reactions to the newly-proposed N.W.T. operating budget on Friday at the territorial legislature. Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek tabled the 2024-25 operating budget earlier that day. She characterized the $2.2-billion plan as one that includes "difficult choices" to ensure the territory is...
Minister Wawzonek unveils 2024-45 budget focusing on financial sustainability
May 24, 2024
My Yellow Knife Now - ...Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek unveiled the 2024–25 budget, focusing on fiscal sustainability, aiming to increase operational surpluses, decrease short-term debt, realign health spending for greater sustainability, allocate funds to key priorities, and enhance fiscal capacity, ensuring that the GNWT is...
MLAs wonder who’ll benefit if NWT makes carbon tax changes
April 9, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...tax is perceived in the Northwest Territories. In effect: what is this tax actually achieving? But McNeely wasn’t questioning finance minister Caroline Wawzonek, who usually bears the brunt of these concerns. This time, he was asking Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, who is proposing legislation that would...
NWT carbon tax public meeting planned as rates go up
March 30, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...is spent,” he told Cabin Radio in February. From February: Kieron Testart outlines what he believes his bill would do. NWT finance minister Caroline Wawzonek says that’s not remotely her understanding of what would actually happen if the bill passed. “The minute we stop collecting carbon tax, which...
NWT’s new ministers face community leaders’ annual ‘bear pit’
March 6, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...community, and maybe the funding will be a little better.” This year’s bear pit didn’t quite feature the full cast of cabinet members. Caroline Wawzonek and Lucy Kuptana, the infrastructure and housing ministers respectively, were unable to attend. Deputy infrastructure minister Steve Loutitt and...