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The Yukon Pride Centre has launched the Yukon Gender Gear Program as part of a larger venture aimed to provide direct aid to LGBTQIA2S+ Yukoners in the midst of the pandemic. The program is a partnership project with GenderGear.ca, BYTE, and Northern Voices Rising. It aims to provide free access to essential gender-affirming “gear” to Trans, Two-Spirit, and Non-binary Yukoners. Ames Val, the program development manager with the Yukon Pride Centre, said Feb. 2 these items are essential, and that free access to gender gear could help community members feel safer and more comfortable. “It...

The Yukon government continues to improvise its vaccine rollout strategy in the face of an uncertain supply. At the government’s weekly COVID-19 briefing held Wednesday afternoon, Premier Sandy Silver and Dr. Brendan Hanley, the chief medical officer of health, said they were confident the territory could meet its goal of inoculating 75 per cent of the adult population willing to accept the vaccine by March or April. A certain amount of flexibility has to be incorporated into the process, both said, because the federal government, which controls the supply, isn’t providing guaranteed fix...

Posted: Jan 12, 2021 5:52 PM CT | Last Updated: January 13 Dr. Brendan Hanley said during Wednesday's weekly COVID-19 update that uptake of the vaccine has been great so far and that he has heard of very few people holding back or hesitating.(Mark Kelly Photography/Government of Yukon)

Such decisions reveal the complexities of healing and memory. Let’s support choice. Ry Moran is the inaugural associate university librarian-reconciliation at the University of Victoria and is the former director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. SHARES Lower Post residential school has been a daily reminder of pain and suffering for residents of the community in BC’s far north. Photo via the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre. The decision to demolish the Lower Post school — one of the few remaining residential school b...

The Yukon government is hastily revising its vaccine rollout plan after being unable to guarantee one mass shipment of enough COVID-19 doses to inoculate 75 per cent of the adult population of the territory. Despite promises by the government that it would not receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in “dribs and drabs,” it appears that is exactly what’s happening. During a COVID-19 briefing Thursday afternoon, Premier Sandy Silver and Health and Social Services Minister Pauline Frost said there is no fixed, guaranteed schedule to receive more vaccine doses. Enough vaccine to provide 7,200...