Yukon who is who

Nancy Thomson

Nancy Thomson grew up in Ross River, the daughter of Indigenous activist and feminist Margaret Thomson. In 1980, Nancy was hired by CBC to host a weekend music request show. She left the Yukon and spent ten years acquiring a journalism degree and working as a writer and editor. She returned to the Yukon in the early 1990s and started a full-time career at CBC as a reporter. The news room changed over the years but Nany saw her jobs as representing the public interest and finding the answers the public deserves to know. The bulk of her stories have been about Indigenous people and social injustice, and she showed tenacity and used exhaustive research. A 2004 series of stories investigated prescription drug abuse in Watson Lake. A series in 2018 looked at the mistreatment of youth at some Yukon group homes and earned her the Michener Award in 2019. Nancy Thomson retired from CBC in 2020.¹⁾