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Canada-Yukon Housing Homeowner Benefit

Privacy Impact Assessment #: YHC-PIA-2024-01
Public Body Name : Yukon Housing Corporation
Date of Approval: Monday, March 18, 2024

The Canada-Yukon housing Homeowner Benefit provides a one-time payment to help eligible Yukon homeowners with their housing costs. To be considered for the benefit, homeowners must be spending 50 percent or more of their gross household income on housing costs. This includes mortgage payment, property tax, home insurance, home repairs, heating fuel and electricity and applicants must meet all other eligibility requirements. This program, launched March 8, 2024, will close when fully subscribed or on March 26, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. (whichever occurs first).

TSB Central Issuance (Veridos)

Privacy Impact Assessment #: HPW-PIA-2024-02
Public Body Name : Highways and Public Works
Date of Approval: Thursday, March 14, 2024

This pertains to the production of Yukon government identification cards, specifically the driver's licenses and the general identification cards (GICs), issued by the Department of Highways and Public Works (HPW), Transit Services, Motor Vehicles Branch. GICs are issued if the individual does not have authorization for a Drivers License.

Veridos will replace the outdated card printing technology currently used by HPW as it no longer meets the updates security standards required for government identification. The outdated process includes in-house printing and laminated-based security. Current security standards across North America are for a laser engraved polycarbonate ID card, which is not producible by HPW independently. By partnering with Veridos, the Yukon Government aims to establish a reliable, high-security card printing service and improve the security, integrity, and overall quality of Yukon government-issued credentials.

Yukon Parks Online Reservation System Project

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ENV-PIA-2024-02
Public Body Name : Environment
Date of Approval: Tuesday, March 5, 2024

In accordance with departmental mandate, the Yukon Parks branch has completed a new parks strategy to support the future planning and development of Yukon parks and campgrounds. The strategy includes the introduction of online reservation options to improve fair access to some campsites in some road accessible campgrounds. The online reservation covers the seven identified Yukon Campgrounds:
4 Front-country Campgrounds:
* Pine Lake Campground
* Tombstone Mountain Campground
* Marsh Lake
* Wolf Lake

3 Backcountry Campgrounds
* Grizzly Lake Campground
* Talus Lake Campground
* Divide Lake Campground

Public Health Information Exchange (“PHIX”) Application

Privacy Impact Assessment #: HSS-PIA-2024-01
Public Body Name : Health and Social Services
Date of Approval: Wednesday, February 21, 2024

This Citizen Submission Portal PIA Addendum is being conducted to document the inclusion of the Public Health Information Exchange (“PHIX”) into the suite of existing Panorama applications and integrations.
PHIX is a tool that was developed to transfer information from web portals and/or other applications into Panorama. The tool is now being expanded to support the submission of vaccine information for all types of vaccines. The submission process involves using an online form portal called the Public Health Information Exchange ("PHIX"), which interfaces with Panorama. Information submitted via the PHIX portal will be automatically matched against
existing records in Panorama using a matching algorithm. Where the submission is able to be matched to an existing record, the record will be reviewed by trained reviewers to confirm accuracy and submit the information to Panorama.

Jira Service Management

Privacy Impact Assessment #: HPW-PIA-2024-01
Public Body Name : Highways and Public Works
Date of Approval: Wednesday, January 24, 2024

The Yukon Government (YG) is revamping its public service and forms management, as well as reporting capabilities with Highway and Public Works (HPW) eServices leading a strategic effort to modernize, standardize, and digitize services by increasing their capabilities in terms of the complexity of and the range of services offered to departments. Highway Three Solutions (contractor) was provided with an extensive requirements list that incorporated the details of the forms management solution being sought to embed with eServices service delivery lifecycle and determined that leveraging Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) cloud solution met the requirements that IT, operations, and business teams can use to quickly respond to, resolve, and report on service requests and incidents. JSM is integrated with Jira and other Atlassian software already in use by YG and configured to YG's teams and services to enable easier collaboration, faster issue resolution, and instant access to real-time analytics to measure performance and workload. The solution’s self-service portal will be configured for both internal and external users, with the intent that it will be utilized primarily for internal YG departments/programs using the forms for approvals, processing requests, and similar workflow.

Canto Cumulus System Service Expansion

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECO-PIA-2024-01
Public Body Name : Executive Council Office
Date of Approval: Tuesday, January 23, 2024

This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) covers the system usage expansion inclusive to all Yukon departments since the original PIA focuses only on Tourism and Culture, Economic Development, Environment, and Cabinet. The service expansion now covers the remaining departments in the Yukon Government namely: Community Services (CS), Education (EDU), Energy, Mines and Resources (EMR), Executive Council Office (ECO), Finance (FIN), Health and Social Services (HSS), Highways and Public Works (HPW), Justice (JUS), French Language Services Directorate (FLSD), Public Service Commission (PSC), Women and Gender Equity Directorate (WGED), Worker's Safety and Compensation Board (WSCB), Yukon Development Corporation (YDC), Yukon Energy Corporation (YEC), Yukon Housing Corporation (YHC), Yukon Liquor Corporation (YLC), Yukon Lottery Commission (YLC), and Lotteries Yukon.
The expansion also allow the administrative tier to reside with the T&C and ECO while all other departments being the system users. The Canto Cumulus will manage the inventory of digital media as all system users will be moving their digital assets from the on-premises software to the Canto Cumulus system.

Temporary Landlord Assistance Program

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2024-02
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Wednesday, January 17, 2024

The Temporary Landlord Assistance Program (TLAP) provides a one-time rebate to landlords for units that were available for rent during the 2023 calendar year. Landlords can apply for a payment of $338 per unit.
The program helps residential landlords affected by the change in rent cap regulations for the 2023 calendar year. Rent increases are now capped at a maximum of 5 per cent.

Announced Oct 19, 2023. Effect Nov 2, 220 - Feb 29, 2024

Wildlife Mortalities Service

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ENV-PIA-2024-01
Public Body Name : Environment
Date of Approval: Wednesday, January 17, 2024

The Department of Environment tracks wildlife mortality information from the different types of harvesting methods (i.e. hunting, trapping, outfitting) and human/wildlife conflict. The animals that must be reported for the activities are: big game animals, wolf, lynx, fox, wolverine, and any animal that is protected under the Wildlife Act. Currently, the Department of Environment is tracking wildlife mortality data through a paper-based process and is taking steps to become more digital in its processes for the ease of access to clients. The new Wildlife Mortalities Service system will replace the Harvest Database and this system will issue the Wildlife Export permits and communicate with the departmental licensing and permitting system (POSSE), SQL Server and AIMES system. The Wildlife Mortalities Service will also access data stored in the department's human-wildfire conflict reporting app. The communication between the systems will mitigate the need for clients to supply the department with the same information twice. This PIA will only focus on the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information involving the Wildlife Mortalities Service.

Small Business Flood Recovery Funding Program

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ECD-PIA-2024-01
Public Body Name : Economic Development
Date of Approval: Friday, January 5, 2024

The Small Business Flood Recovery Funding Program is a one-time program providing financial assistance to small business owners who were impacted by and incurred significant uninsured damages and loss as a result of the May 2023 flooding in the Klondike Valley area.

Effective Jun 30, 2023 - Oct 3, 2023

All supporting documentation must be submitted by Oct 1, 2024

Yukon Government Spatial Data Information Platform

Privacy Impact Assessment #: HPW-PIA-2023-10
Public Body Name : Highways and Public Works
Date of Approval: Tuesday, December 12, 2023

This PIA covers the spatial data and the two distribution platforms currently on offer by the Geomatics Yukon unit in the eServices for citizens branch of the Yukon Government. GeoYukon is an interactive mapping application containing the Government of Yukon's authoritative and current mapa data, provided as a free public service.