29 Aug 2023

20,000 unable to return home due to Canadian wildfires

From Morning Report, 6:11 am on 29 August 2023

20,000 Yellowknife residents are still unable to return home due to the Canadian wildfires.

So far the country's worst wildfire season on record has torn through 37 million acres across the country.

Despite the scale of the fires, CBC reporter Sam Wat says the situation in British Colombia is improving.

Wat spoke to Corin Dann.