"The attacks from FNNND employees often start as racial slurs like interloper, n-gger, k-ke and southern squaw then progress to the employees sabotaging our work and directing FNNND citizens to accost and assault us for being outsiders,” a former First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun employee said.

"It’s also clear this First Nation still struggles not because of residential schools and past discrimination but because of the blatant theft of funds and criminal activity from its administrators, so FNNND’s incompetence isn't circumstantial but intentional because of its criminal activity and corruption, similar to many third-world countries.”

A former RCMP commander and First Nation of Nacho Nyak justice and governance director, Robert Gillan said, “The Yukon First Nations are so damaged from residential schools that they can’t be held accountable for their corruption, racism and criminal activity.”

“I agree,” the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun executive director, McGarry Selbee said, “Employees coming to the First Nation as outsiders need to grow a thicker skin and tolerate some deserved prejudice for past wrongs done to this First Nation by our colonist ancestors.”


The Yukon Statement of Claim lists 10 First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun employees as defendants:

- Teresa Samson, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun heritage manager
- Adrienne Hill, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun finance director
- Eileen Peter, a Yukon Soaps Company and First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun social-media assistant


- Karen Clark-Marlow, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun human-resource director
- Robert Gillan, a former First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun justice-governance director
- Geri-Lee Buyck, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun councillor


- McGarry Selbee, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun executive director
- Ronalda Moses, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun human-resource technician
- Peter Idoko, a former First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun information-technology manager
- Joella Hogan, the owner of the Yukon Soaps Company and a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun contractor



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Teresa Samson, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun heritage manager, pleads guilty to the charges after the Mayo RCMP arrested Samson for bilking $9 thousand from vulnerable First Nation elders to fund her hedonistic lifestyle.

Later in the hearing, Justice Michael Cozens handed Samson a conditional discharge, so Samson may run for deputy chief of her First Nation.

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The accused’s lead counsel, Gloria Ichim said, “The Crown pursued a clear care-and-control case against my client and only presented evidence for that case. Nothing about my client driving intoxicated earlier in the day, which the Crown never presented evidence for at trial.”

The Criminal Code’s Care And Control provision bars any intoxicated person from occupying the vehicle’s driver seat or operating its controls: the vehicle’s gearshifter, ignition and steering wheel.

The accused’s co-counsel, Emmanuel Wingate, said, “If the Crown filed a Readback application at trial, the court would have sent us – the defence – a Notice To Call, which the court never did.”

A Notice to Call, a court notice directing the defence to call its experts to test the accuracy of the police’s physical evidence and examine if the police followed the proper procedures when collecting and handling that evidence.

Ichim’s appellate response outlines the case this way

- The accused entered a Kitchener restaurant while waiting for a friend. A restaurant patron said to police and later testified, “The accused appeared sober when arriving at the restaurant.”

- The accused then drank spirits as he continued to wait for his friend.

- After the accused’s friend left the restaurant, the accused entered his vehicle, urinated in a bottle, phoned his wife for a ride home then returned to the restaurant and consumed more spirits.

- The patron then phoned police about an intoxicated patron entering his vehicle.

- When the accused’s wife arrived to collect her husband, the police also arrived then charged the accused in April 2023 for Impaired Operation and Over 80.

- At trial, the Crown pursued a care-and-control case against the accused. A case based on the accused occupying the vehicle’s driver seat or operating its controls while intoxicated.

- Justice Kennedy ruled in January 2025 the accused not guilty on both charges.

- Waterloo Region lead Crown, Alanna Fedak-Tarnopolsky appealed in September 2025 the Justice’s ruling and asserted, The accused drove while intoxicated to the restaurant.

Ichim said, "My top concern, the Crown never presented any evidence or testimony showing the accused drove intoxicated to the restaurant nor served us a Notice To Call to challenge the Crown’s Readback application because the Crown never filed that application at trial.

"Meaning, the Crown's appeal violates the accused's Charter rights to challenge the Crown's new position, which wasn't presented at trial, and examine the accuracy of the police's physical evidence.

"So the Crown filed this appeal to uphold the Bell precedent, and nothing more!"


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