“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…
Fire information officer Mike Westwick said Sunday that a special effort was undertaken to ensure Yellowknife’s homeless population was safe.
Jennifer Young of the territory’s Emergency Management Organization said homeless evacuees have been registered in the centres where they arrive, and that various mental health and addictions supports, as well as social workers, are being made available to them. On Thursday, Ed Fraser was with dozens of others from the city’s homeless shelters waiting in a long line at Yellowknife’s Sir John Franklin high school to leave the city.
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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