A federal fund announced last fall aimed to help N.W.T communities build firebreaks within eight years. But after last summer's wildfires, some communities are anxious to get the work done as soon as possible.
As they work to rebuild the community after a devastating fire, leaders in Enterprise, N.W.T., are calling for an independent inquiry into why there were not more firefighters on the ground in Enterprise to prevent the damage seen to structures there.
Several N.W.T. leaders, activists and political observers held up outgoing premier Caroline Cochrane as an advocate for marginalized people and Indigenous rights. Some, though, said she was often hemmed in by cabinet and the bureaucracy.
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