N.W.T.'s premier remembered as unconventional leader, champi

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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