As another devastating wildfire season finally begins to wind down, a sense of cautious relief comes with exhaustion, anxiety and the lingering effects of yet another summer marked by fear and displacement for too many Northern families and communities.

Across Canada, this season has once again brought devastating wildfires, smoke-filled skies, mass evacuations, and record-breaking heat. Here in the Northwest Territories, families in communities such as Fort Providence and Whatì were forced to flee as wildfires advanced dangerously close to homes and infrastructure, an experience all too familiar to many of us in Yellowknife.

For Northerners, climate change is not an abstract threat. It's a deeply personal threat we see, live and breathe every day. From the painful return of memories of

See Full Page