Sara Connors

1 week ago | aptnnews.ca | Sara Connors

Art is a sacred practice for Megan Jensen. Jensen, who is Tlingit and a Carcross/Tagish First Nation citizen and lives in Whitehorse, is perhaps best known for her formline art. Much of her work focuses on personal stories – stories she tells with paintbrush and canvas in the traditional artform of her people. “When I’m painting, or I’m drawing, I just feel so connected with a past, with the voices of my ancestors,” she told APTN News. And her talent hasn’t gone unnoticed.

1 week ago | aptnnews.ca | Sara Connors

A police watchdog agency has found officers with Yukon RCMP not criminally liable in an incident in 2023 in Whitehorse which resulted in an Indigenous teenage girl breaking her leg – though a justice advocate and the girl’s family feel the the force should be held accountable. The investigation was triggered after the girl, who is Inuk-Dene and was 17 years old at the time, sustained injuries following an altercation with the RCMP in Whitehorse on April 8, 2023.

2 weeks ago | aptnnews.ca | Sara Connors

The federal government threatened to “turn off the taps” on the Liard First Nation’s funding earlier this year after the band failed to file multiple financial reports and audits spanning several years, APTN National News has learned. According to a firm hired to assist the band with its finances, it failed to file 103 financial reports with the federal government, as well as six audits between 2019 to 2024, resulting in the government withholding $5.2 million in funding.

3 weeks ago | aptnnews.ca | Sara Connors

A First Nation in Yukon says a decision giving the Whitehorse dam the greenlight to proceed to the next phase in the relicensing process doesn’t go far enough to protect Chinook salmon. Built in 1958, the dam is an important piece of infrastructure for the Yukon, generating around 75 per cent of the territory’s energy needs in the summer and 40 per cent during the winter months. Operated by Crown corporation Yukon Energy, its 25-year licence for the dam is set to expire on May 31.

4 weeks ago | aptnnews.ca | Sara Connors

A Yukon NDP MLA says the Liberal government must replace a non-profit agency responsible for operating a Whitehorse shelter and a halfway house and supportive housing program following the release of two independent reports into how they’re run. “I do feel like Connective has to go,” NDP MLA Annie Blake told APTN News.