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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‘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...
Assembly update for February 29
March 1, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...crime on the streets of Yellowknife and funding for the Spruce Bough transitional living facility (Frame Lake MLA Julian Morse). Great Slave MLA Kate Reid asked Premier RJ Simpson what the NWT can do to show support for a cease fire in the Israel-Hamas War. “In what ways can the premier commit to...
NWT’s MLAs pass Israel-Hamas ceasefire motion
February 29, 2024
Cabin Radio - ... Lindman was among about a dozen people from the group who gathered at the Legislative Assembly to watch as the vote took place. Great Slave MLA Kate Reid and Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan tabled and seconded the motion, respectively, in response to a YK Citizens for Ceasefire petition. “When...
NWT Assembly thinks pink against bullies today: Your Daily Update
February 28, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...women from competing in women’s sports leagues. Testart questioned Education Minister Caitlin Cleveland: “My friend from Great Slave (MLA Kate Reid) mentioned that other jurisdictions in Canada are taking heartless steps to traumatize and disenfranchise people for being themselves. I’d like to...
MLAs to vote on Israel-Hamas ceasefire motion
February 27, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...a motion later this week that will call on the premier to support a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, among other measures. Great Slave MLA Kate Reid told the legislature on Tuesday she plans to table the motion, seconded by Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan, on Thursday. The motion, which is...
N.W.T. MLAs vote for inquiry into 2023 wildfire response, but premier makes no promises
February 22, 2024
CBC North - ...costs and timelines of the inquiry. "The prevents this from spiraling out of control," he said. "We can make the right calls on how it's shaped." Kate Reid, MLA for Great Slave, said the public deserves to learn why the government made the decisions that it did. The motion was first planned to be...
Live: MLAs pass motion calling for wildfire public inquiry
February 22, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...at all. People may not agree to leave their homes and evacuate, and that’s a real danger that we need to contemplate here.” Great Slave MLA Kate Reid reprimanded the premier for going public in earlier interviews with his view that an inquiry isn’t the way forward, suggesting it got in the way...
Here’s how N.W.T. MLAs say they’ll vote on a public inquiry into last summer’s wildfire response
February 22, 2024
CBC North - ...times. We owe it to them to be transparent and accountable in how decisions were made during the crisis and give them a voice in the process." Kate Reid, MLA for Great Slave, said she would support the motion with the further amendments. Reid was one of two regular MLAs, along with Julian Morse, who...
N.W.T. premier says public wildfire inquiry could cost millions and grind gov’t to a halt
February 14, 2024
CBC North - ...of the premier. That postponement narrowly passed with all of cabinet voting in favour, along with Frame Lake MLA Julian Morse and Great Slave MLA Kate Reid. All other MLAs voted against it. The 9-9 tie was broken by Speaker Shane Thompson voting to postpone. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart and Dehcho MLA...
MLAs’ debate on wildfire inquiry is postponed at premier’s request
February 9, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...Premier RJ Simpson stood with a motion of his own: to delay the debate until February 22. Cabinet and two Yellowknife regular MLAs, Great Slave’s Kate Reid and Frame Lake’s Julian Morse, supported the postponement. All nine other regular MLAs opposed it. Speaker Shane Thompson, asked to deliver a...
‘Sorely missed.’ MLAs share tributes following Fort Smith plane crash
February 7, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...Speaker Shane Thompson, environment minister Jay Macdonald – who represents Fort Smith – and regular MLAs Kieron Testart, Richard Edjericon and Kate Reid all rose to offer tributes, thanking first responders and highlighting the outpouring of support for Fort Smith and loved ones of those on the...
Carbon tax, wildfire response among issues N.W.T. MLAs want to address in 1st session
February 6, 2024
CBC North - ...Territories." 'My position is the carbon tax system is failing northerners,' said Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart. (Julie Plourde/Radio-Canada) Kate Reid, MLA for Great Slave, says those are issues she expects many of the regular MLAs have been hearing about. She says she would also like to see the...