Three Yukon First Nations have renewed a joint charter on land use planning. It's called How We Walk with Land and Water. It's driven by First Nations and their traditional values. Virginie Ann has the story.
Members of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation are about to embark on a very special journey in Alaska. A canoe trip from Haines to Juneau. The First Nation is paddling to attend an event that reunites coastal Tlingit relatives. Virginie Ann has the details.
Thorin the dog is the newest employee with Yukon's EMS. His job will be working with EMS responders preventatively. Trained to detect stress and high levels of cortisol, he can bring responders in a 'heightened state' to a 'lower state'. The CBC's Virginie Ann has more.
It's happened every four years since 1992: Indigenous runners set off on a long-distance "Peace and Dignity Journey," with the goal of connecting Indigenous peoples across the Western Hemisphere. Some runners recently left Fairbanks, Alaska, on their way to South America. They met the CBC's Virginie Ann as they passed through the Yukon.
Zoë Dodd, an expert on harm reduction and shelter policies in Canada, says she was "a bit surprised" by a seeming lack of urgency in the recommendations from the jury at this month's coroner's inquest in Whitehorse but also not surprised.