YELLOWKNIFE — 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 homel
"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.
"On Thursday morning, I drove to the shelter — the women's shelter at that time because I know a lot of them because of my past — and I realized that there were some that were still on the street," she said. Fire information officer Mike Westwick said Sunday that a special effort was undertaken to ensure Yellowknife’s homeless population was safe.
RCMP Cpl. Matt Halstead said based on their observations, as well discussions with other officials, it is believed that"the vast majority, if not all of our shelter users and underhoused have made it to evacuation centres." A 2021 point-in-time count found 312 people were experiencing homelessness in Yellowknife, more than half of whom were chronically homeless. Indigenous people accounted for nearly 92 per cent of those experiencing homelessness compared to 23 per cent of the city's total population.
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