2023 NWT Election
Kate Reid
Candidate in the Great Slave Yellowknife race.
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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...
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...