Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane was a social worker before entering politics, so when the territory ordered everyone in its capital to leave last week due to encroaching wildfires, she said she checked to make sure homeless people weren't forgotten.
"My heart's with those people. I've worked in that field for over 20 years," Cochrane told an online news conference about the firefighting efforts over the weekend, when she was asked about government plans to keep in touch with Yellowknife's homeless.Cochrane, who is among the nearly 70 per cent of N.W.T.
"From Thursday morning, from 8 in the morning until after midnight -- the whole day -- I recruited one of the homeless men and we drove through Yellowknife, over and over, to every single place, trying to find people."Cochrane said she wanted to give a shout-out to the man from the Sahtu region. By midnight, she said, they'd managed to find about a dozen people and get them to an evacuation centre.
"There was significant outreach to people experiencing homelessness," Westwick said. "There was good success getting them set up with supports in Alberta." On Sunday, Fraser, who is 50 and is dealing with a dislocated shoulder, said he was being lodged with other evacuees at an airport hotel in Calgary.But he said many of his companions smoke and there's no money for cigarettes. And he said it's $6 to wash and dry their clothes.
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