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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane recounts search for homeless dur. Yellowknife wildfire evacuation 🔥

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/n-w-t-premier-caroline-cochrane-recounts-search-for-homeless-during-yellowknife-evacuation-1.6527425

* Caroline Cochrane: social worker before entering politics

* when NWT ordered everyone to leave due to wildfires, she made sure homeless people weren't forgotten 👍️

* "My heart's with those people. I've worked in that field for over 20 years" 🙏

Caroline Cochrane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Cochrane

#Canada #NWT #CarolineCochrane #homelessness #WildFires #SocialWork

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 2y ago

Human toll of wildfires 'unparalleled': The latest fire updates for the N.W.T.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/human-toll-of-wildfires-unparalleled-the-latest-fire-updates-for-the-n-w-t-1.6527811

* 65% of population of NWT is under evacuation order

* evacuation orders in place for the Yellowknife's 20,000 residents as they flee threat of wildfires

* "The human toll of this wildfire season is unparalleled"

#Canada #NWT #WildFires #ClimateChange