Happy Ombuds Day! Ombuds promote and protect fairness. We listen to concerns, offer advice, and investigate complaints about public services. We also provide guidance, recommendations, and resources to public organizations so they can deliver services fairly.
We are here to help. bit.ly/4nCV4jf
09.10.2025 16:48 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
We provide whistleblowing support by helping employees and the public organizations they work for. Discover who we oversee, how to make a disclosure, our resources, and more.
Our new website is designed to help you find what you need.
yukonaccountability.ca/pidc
22.09.2025 17:22 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
We promote privacy and access to information by helping the public and public organizations that use, collect or disclose their information. Discover who we oversee, how we can help you, our resources, and more.
Our new website can help you find what you need.
yukonaccountability.ca/ipc
19.09.2025 22:29 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
We promote fairness by helping the public and those that serve them. Discover who we oversee, how we can help you resolve your concerns, our resources, and more.
Our new website is designed to help you find what you need.
yukonaccountability.ca/ombudsman
17.09.2025 16:00 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Victoria Gold disregarded cold climate; slideβs timing avoided fatalities: report
2024 report on heap leach facility failure under Victoria Gold Corp.βs watch made public
"In response to the IPC office's investigation, which recommends releasing certain records, the Environment department doubled down on withholding some of those records, citing its reasons for rejecting the IPC adjudicatorβs recommendations."
www.yukon-news.com/news/victori...
16.09.2025 17:20 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Our new website is designed to help you find what you need. We promote fairness, privacy and access to information, and provide whistleblowing support to the public and those that serve them. Discover who we oversee, how to resolve your concerns, our resources, and more.
yukonaccountability.ca
15.09.2025 16:54 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
AI being rolled out in Yukon health clinics
Heidi is a medical AI scribe being used in Yukon health clinics to help clinicians with administrative work
We are currently reviewing their Privacy Impact Assessment to ensure it aligns with the Yukon Health Information Privacy and Management Act and will pass along any recommendations to the Yukon government as required.
www.yukon-news.com/news/ai-bein...
12.09.2025 16:36 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Privacy commissioner says Yukon Government is withholding information on Eagle Mine | CBC News
Yukon's information and privacy commissioner has found the government overstepped its authority to withhold information about last year's Eagle mine failure.
"Floyd McCormick, a longtime clerk of the Yukon legislature who's now retired, told CBC News the fact that the government has the power to overrule a decision from the privacy commissioner points to a systemic problem in the Yukon."
Report and response: bit.ly/4pc6Mmd
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
09.09.2025 20:16 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Petition to probe Faro mayor and council's conduct sent to Yukon minister
Minister of the Department of Community Services has received request for independent investigation into the Town of Faro mayor and councilβs alleged wrongdoing
Currently the Yukon Ombudsman and Commissioner cannot investigate municipalities. Over the years, he has requested the same authority found in the majority of Canadian jurisdictions. One of these changes would include municipalities under his jurisdiction.
www.yukon-news.com/news/petitio...
08.09.2025 18:07 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Accountability is not real if the people who are supposed to be held accountable get to decide how accountable they will be.
06.09.2025 07:45 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
We concluded that the Department of Environment did not have the authority to withhold records about the Victoria Gold heap leach facility failure and recommended the records be released to the complainant. They are continuing to withhold 14 of the 33 pages.
yukonaccountability.ca/ipc/reports
05.09.2025 20:55 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Kwanlin DΓΌn First Nation is seeking feedback by Wednesday, Sept. 10th on their new Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. There are prizes! www.kwanlindun.com/engagement/
04.09.2025 17:24 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Our office is closed on Monday, September 1st for the Labour Day statutory holiday. We will reopen at 8:30am on Tuesday, September 2nd. Wishing you an enjoyable long weekend.
29.08.2025 18:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Now more than ever, kids need to learn about privacy⦠but that doesn't mean it has to be boring! Check out the IPC's Privacy Pursuit! lesson plans, developed in collaboration with @mediasmarts.bsky.social to help students of all ages develop their digital literacy.
www.ipc.on.ca/en/privacy-i...
25.08.2025 16:07 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
You can now search for open government publications, datasets, and completed Access to Information requests and Privacy Impact Assessment summaries that are part of the Access to Information Registry in an updated Government of Yukon open portal. @yukon.ca
yukon.ca/en/digital-b...
12.08.2025 18:01 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
We are hiring an Investigator and Compliance Review Officer for our Formal Investigation team. This dynamic position plays a key in supporting the Ombudsman, Information and Privacy Commissioner, and Public Interest and Disclosure Commissioner. Learn more:
yukonaccountability.ca/careers
08.07.2025 19:05 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
We promote and protect fairness and have been for 29 years!
The Ombudsman investigates complaints about public services and provides recommendations and resources to public organizations so they can deliver services fairly.β―
Happy birthday Ombudsman Act!
yukonaccountability.ca/ombudsman
02.07.2025 16:43 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Canadaβs first ever key principles on public fairness have been created by ombudsman across the country. These seven principles further support the Yukon Ombudsmanβs call for amendments to the Act - to ensure independence and the ability to conduct own motion investigations.
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24.06.2025 20:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Our office will be closed on Monday, June 23 in honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day. This is a statutory holiday for the Yukon - a time during summer solstice to celebrate the 14 distinct First Nations in the territory. Our office hours will resume on Tuesday, June 24 at 8:30am.
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Public employees can report wrongdoings to our office: going against an Act or regulation, a danger to a person or the environment, mismanaging public funds or assets, or directing someone to do the above. Our services are free and confidential. bit.ly/45az9to
17.06.2025 16:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ten years ago, Yukon's whistleblowing act came to be. Employees of Yukon's public organizations have support and a process to report a wrongdoing or a reprisal, thanks to the Public Interest Disclosure of Wrongdoing Act. Learn how we can help: yukonaccountability.ca/pidc
16.06.2025 16:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
We are committed to professional development so we can support your privacy concerns. Two of our staff joined some of the brightest privacy minds in Canadian privacy, including presentations from Commissioners Philippe Dufrense and Patricia Kosseim @the_IAPP @CPS25.
16.05.2025 17:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Our staff will learn about "Cultivating Safe Spaces" in an online workshop that looks at conditions, protocols and perspectives. The Moose Hide Campaign encourages us "to take practical steps for our collective journey of reconciliation."
moosehidecampaign.ca/campaignday
15.05.2025 20:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Two of these changes are in response to recommendations the Ombudsman made in his investigation on three independent complaints against the Human Rights Commission. The investigation found unfairness in organizational operations.
bit.ly/3YHhZ2w
yukon.ca/sites/defaul...
13.05.2025 16:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Complaint β investigation β recommendations β change! We investigated a complaint about site saving and provided recommendations to the Department of Environment that they accepted and are executing.
We work to promote and protect fairness by working with authorities to make change.
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30.04.2025 19:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
We received a complaint from an individual alleging that a custodian disclosed their personal health information to their parents who werenβt listed as their emergency contacts.
Read about this and other stories that were resolved in 2024 with the help of our office.
29.04.2025 15:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Official account for APTN News, our stories told our way.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Political scientist @ Notre Dame. Gender, parties, suffrage, role models. New: See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People. https://bookshop.org/p/books/see-jane-run-how-women-politicians-matter-for-young-people-david-e-campbell/21729443
News and information from the Yukon Legislative Assembly.
The Legislative Assembly Office provides non-partisan services to MLAs and House Officers.
yukonassembly.ca
Compte officiel du gouvernement du Yukon. Cette page est modΓ©rΓ©e du lundi au vendredi durant les heures normales de bureau.
Pour tout renseignement, rendez-vous au yukon.ca/fr.
Official account for the Government of Yukon's Department of Environment. This account is currently not active.
We are working with you to reduce greenhouse gases, increase energy efficiency and save you money in the Yukon. http://yukon.ca/good-energy
Official account for the Government of Yukonβs Department of Health and Social Services. This account is not currently active.
Official account for the Government of Yukon's Department of Highways and Public Works. This account is currently not active.
Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libΓ©ral
markcarney.ca
Official Government of Yukon account. This account is monitored Monday to Friday during regular business hours.
Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services
Commission des plaintes relatives aux services de tΓ©lΓ©com-tΓ©lΓ©vision
From MD to MP for the Yukon
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs
Former CMOH, father, husband, avid runner
https://linktr.ee/brendanhanley
We are an independent, non-partisan office responsible for the administration of territorial general elections, school council elections and school board elections.
Peer-reviewed journal | Human experience in the Circumpolar North | Open Access | Published at Yukon University since 1988
Whitehorse | Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin DΓΌn First Nation and the Taβan KwΓ€chβΓ€n Council
https://thenorthernreview.ca
Premier of the Yukon
Leader of the Yukon Liberal Party
MLA for Porter Creek South
Minister of Executive Council Office, Economic Development and Yukon Housing Corporation
Husband and father
Mountain biker. Bike instructor Snowboarder. Lapsed baker. Optimist. Hope promoter. Politician.
The Yukon Arts Centre fosters artistic expression through art exhibits, performances, cultural engagement and community outreach in the territory.
We Fight Hunger in the Northπ
https://linktr.ee/yukonfoodbank