N.W.T. Premier Caroline Cochrane says she won’t seek re-election

The premier of the Northwest Territories has announced she won’t be running for re-election in November.

Caroline Cochrane says representing the N.W.T. has been among the highest honours of her life.

The former social worker was first elected as a member of the territory’s legislature in 2015 and was voted in as premier in 2019.

She became a face of the fight against unprecedented wildfires in the territory in August when Yellowknife’s 20,000 residents were ordered out of the capital for three weeks due to an encroaching fire.


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Cochrane told a news conference at the time that she drove around the city, looking behind buildings and in bushes, to make sure homeless people weren’t left behind.

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The election, initially scheduled for Tuesday, was moved to Nov. 14 because of the fires.

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