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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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...
‘Who runs this territory? The drug trade is winning,’ says Monfwi MLA
May 28, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...believed to be proceeds of crime without a trial. Also in the Assembly today: Robert Hawkins, MLA for Yellowknife Centre and Great Slave MLA Kate Reid pressed Health Minister Lesa Semmler to the point of exasperation about the lack of midwives in the NWT, especially Indigenous ones. “They are...
NWT’s new budget is ‘a financial Frankenstein’s monster’
May 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ... Yellowknife’s Stanton Territorial Hospital is seen from the Frame Lake Trail in September 2022. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio Great Slave MLA Kate Reid told the legislature no midwives were consulted about the decision. She said two students studying to become midwives – with plans to work in...
Minister Wawzonek unveils 2024-45 budget focusing on financial sustainability
May 24, 2024
My Yellow Knife Now - ... “It is what we expected to see. Are these the smartest choices we could be making? Well, that is what the next few weeks are about,” says Kate Reid MLA for Great Slave and on the Economic Development and Environment committee. “There is nothing talking about how we are going to rein in...
N.W.T. film industry wants more funding to get projects off the ground
April 19, 2024
CBC North - ...couple years," she said. "I am aware that there's two of these projects likely to go into production in the next couple of years." Great Slave MLA Kate Reid, who is on the committee that heard the presentation, spoke directly to Industry, Tourism and Investment Minister Caitlin Cleveland during the...