This week, the Yukon government released new regulations that ratchet up the powers of the RCMP to search for missing people. Protecting the safety of vulnerable persons at the same time will be a balancing act.
Women's advocates say an NDP-led push for free birth control in the Yukon could remove barriers for family planning and ease burdens on the territory's health system.
The Council of Yukon First Nations is planning to build a new shelter in Whitehorse's Whistle Bend neighbourhood, specifically for Indigenous women and children.
It was a sombre gathering on Tuesday at the Yukon Legislative Assembly where the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women was marked. The day commemorates the 14 women killed in the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.