Thursday was a 'theme day' at the N.W.T. legislature, with members’ questions focused on housing, and with the minister responsible for the territory's housing corporation in the hot seat.
The N.W.T. Legislative Assembly resumes to pass a budget and start playing catch up on education, land claims and systemic racism in healthcare, all while moving closer and closer to its borrowing limit.
The federal government says it will be using roughly one sixth of its National Housing Co-Investment Fund to build and upgrade homes in Fort Providence, Fort Good Hope and Łutselk’e.
Work is underway on energy efficiency upgrades at Yellowknife’s Borealis Housing Cooperative, thanks to a $9.05 million dollar federal grant, and $100,000 from the NWT Housing Corporation.
Rob Warburton, president of the Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce, is calling for legislative change to the fire marshal for legislative change, something the N.W.T. government says is already underway.