‘These fires are different, we have to start doing things differently’: N.W.T. MP McLeod calls for communities, feds to get ‘fire smart’

NDP MP Blake Desjarlais says a truly proactive plan would involve both curtailing climate change and creating a force that can also monitor for other high-risk climate events to better prepare communities before they strike.
Yellowknife residents line up at a local high school on Aug. 17 while awaiting transportation to the airport for evacuation to Edmonton, Calgary, or Winnipeg.

Without more rain, "things are going to get worse before they get better" in the Northwest Territories, where tens of thousands of evacuees are dealing with the traumatic experience of being forced from their homes with little notice, in some instances for the second or thir...

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