2023 NWT Election
Kate Reid
Candidate in the Great Slave Yellowknife race.
Kate can be reached at Katereidnwt@gmail.com, or by calling 867-688-5933.
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N.W.T. assembly passes capital budget despite concerns over priorities
November 1, 2024
CBC North - ...crisis — and long-term care facilities. The budget passed with cabinet voting in favour, along with MLAs Danny McNeely, Jane Weyallon Armstrong, Kate Reid and Denny Rodgers. Voting against the budget were MLAs Robert Hawkins, Shauna Morgan, Kieron Testart, Julian Morse and George Nerysoo. The finance...
NWT public servants’ morale ‘at rock bottom,’ says MLA and former union leader
October 24, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...Slave MLA Kate Reid says relentless cost-cutting chatter by cabinet adds to the stress felt by of workers Morale among unionized GNWT employees is “at rock bottom,” with many feeling stuck within a hierarchy that expects unthinking loyalty, but does not reward creativity, an MLA and former union...
For nine years, health authority refused to correct woman’s gender
October 22, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...nine years refusing to change a woman’s gender designation in her medical records after misidentifying her as male, an MLA says. Great Slave MLA Kate Reid said the issue had been fixed within a week of the woman and her partner bringing the problem to Reid’s attention and the MLA writing to health...
GNWT wants federal immigration cap raised from 300 to 500
October 21, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...in place will be able to apply when the program opens up in January of 2025 again,” Cleveland said in response to questions from Great Slave MLA Kate Reid. The minister said her department’s staff were “doing what they can” to ensure as many employees as possible are on hand to process an...
Homeless encampment in Yellowknife to come down starting today
September 9, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...difficulty finding housing as they were just released from jail, or haven’t any proper identification. The committee heard from Great Slave MLA Kate Reid and department officials of utility thefts, open sex acts and drug deals, and public defecation, the latter mostly in the first dozen days before...
Residents near encampment needed more support, MLA says
August 23, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...that appeared opposite a high school in early August has since moved to a vacant lot several blocks away. The encampment is inside Great Slave MLA Kate Reid’s district. The territorial government has installed a portable toilet on the lot and says it will erect “temporary fencing” for the next few...
Legal aid concerned about children’s lawyer budget cuts
July 4, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...against the cut. “When we have folks in legal aid pleading with us not to cut that office, I think we should listen to them,” Great Slave MLA Kate Reid told the legislature the day the budget was passed. Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan told Cabin Radio cutting the senior lawyer role removes...
N.W.T. considers making producers deal with used oil, tires and electrical items
June 25, 2024
CBC North - ...legal authority to create EPR programs. Regulations will take years, says minister Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan and Great Slave Lake MLA Kate Reid both raised the issue of extended producer responsibility in the Legislative Assembly on June 7. Morgan said EPR could "take a lot of burden off...
NWT electronic medical records system reaches end of life
June 17, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...end up having to go back to paper.” It’s also important to keep in mind the need to mitigate risk of privacy breaches, said Great Slave MLA Kate Reid. “Over the years, there’s been a lot of privacy breaches in the health system due to things being moved around by accident,” she said. ...
NWT’s 20th Assembly passes its first budget
June 13, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...that not all of their requests made the cut. “It’s a sign of a good negotiation when both sides come away somewhat unsatisfied,” said Kate Reid, the MLA for Great Slave. Reid said she would continue to push for the office of the children’s lawyer, midwifery, extended health benefits and...
UNW members protest proposed job cuts outside NWT legislature
June 11, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...our communities alive.” Melvin Larocque displays his sign while protesting on Tuesday afternoon. Claire McFarlane/Cabin Radio Great Slave MLA Kate Reid and members of the UNW listen to Thunstrom speak. Claire McFarlane/Cabin Radio Also in attendance at Tuesday’s rally was Great Slave MLA and...
Sahtu economy ‘faces collapse’ without barge re-supply, says MLA Daniel McNeely
June 7, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...in the right way.” Hawkins also suggested there needs to be more facilities in regional centres to relieve the strain placed on Yellowknife. Kate Reid, the MLA for Great Slave, along with Shauna Morgan were speaking about diverting more plastics from the landfill. Under the new Waste Reduction and...
When will they fix YK Airport security? How about the parking gate?
June 6, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...its way up through Catsa already, so it is a known item and concern,” he said. Up in arms The security lineup question came from Great Slave MLA Kate Reid. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart followed it, slightly sheepishly, with a more personal query. “My only question – and this seems frivolous given...
‘Not a done deal.’ What’s happening with Extended Health Benefits?
June 5, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...in Yellowknife, the GNWT says anyone earning $31,135 or more per year will have to contribute some money to their benefits. Great Slave MLA Kate Reid. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio “This has been sold as a change to help folks who don’t have access to health benefits. No one is angry about that....
Welfare work requirements are retired by GNWT
June 4, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...get back to work.” Robert Hawkins, MLA for Yellowknife Centre, called Income Assistance the “back-dooring of a very, very basic income.” And Kate Reid, MLA for Great Slave, said Income Assistance is paternalistic in nature. “I would also add that is that it is colonial in nature, because it...