What the N.W.T. can learn from Lytton about climate resilience

By Claire McFarlane, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cabin Radio In June of 2021, the village of Lytton, British Columbia, burned down in less than an hour. Lytton is known as “Canada’s hotspot” due to its geography and location, within a canyon that make it one of the hottest places in the country during a heat wave. Patrick Michell said he received a text message from his wife at 4:58 p.m. on the day of the fire, asking him to come home to help with a grandchild’s diaper change. At 5 p.m., she texted to say she had just received a call that there was a fire in town. By 5:02 p.m. their house was on fire. Michell, a former chief of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band just south of Lytton…

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