Yellowknifer

I have been a vegetarian and wannabe vegan for 35 years, but the cheese and salami sandwich gifted to me while I waited in line up at the Big River gas station in Fort Providence was the best sandwich I ever ate. The dogs got the salami but I ate every bite of that processed cheese on white bread with great delight. I savoured every one of the 12 grapes, the orange, the Oreo cookie — everything.

In the wake of wildfires consuming great swaths of the Northwest Territories, acts of kindness and generosity are shining through.

Author’s note: To ensure you only have to look at one place to get all the information you need, I’m including earlier points in each update. Older information will be dated to avoid potential confusion.

Wildfires around Hay River are holding but officials warn weather can change quickly.

Wildfires on the NWT-Alberta border have crept further south, but the risk to NWT communities remain the same.

Officials are still asking people who haven’t evacuated Yellowknife to please leave, but will not be arresting or fining people who do not follow the evacuation order.

More than 2/3rds of the 45,000-plus N.W.T. residents are living in evacuation centres and hotels

Author’s note: To ensure you only have to look at one place to get all the information you need, I’m including earlier points in each update. Older information will be dated to avoid potential confusion.

Wildfires continue to burn around Hay River, but the mayor is confident the blazes will be held at bay.

Assurances of public safety and essential service operations must be in place first: Rebecca Alty