YukonSA国际影视传媒檚 premier is apologizing ahead of an inquest into the deaths of four Indigenous women who were accessing services at the Whitehorse emergency shelter.

Ranj Pillai says the lives of all four women ended too soon and SA国际影视传媒渇or this, we are deeply sorry.SA国际影视传媒�

Cassandra Warville, Myranda Tizya-Charlie, Josephine Elizabeth Hagar and Darla Skookum died between January 2022 and April 2023 when the shelter was being run either by the government or a non-profit organization.

When chief coroner Heather Jones first announced the inquest in 2022, she said Warville and Tizya-CharlieSA国际影视传媒檚 deaths where SA国际影视传媒渇ound to be the result of toxic illicit drugs.SA国际影视传媒�

Deputy premier Jeanie McLean says the government is providing funding for community members to travel to Whitehorse to be with the families during the inquest and there will be increased access to counselling.

McLean says the way the women died was SA国际影视传媒渘either dignified nor just,SA国际影视传媒� and while the inquest will be focused on Whitehorse, the issues are not specific to the city.

SA国际影视传媒淲e see vulnerable people, vulnerable women, vulnerable Indigenous people, die from drug poisoning, from suicide, from the impacts of colonization every day across Canada,SA国际影视传媒� she said.

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