Bailey's biological father also died at the shelter in 2021, and she claims that the shelter's staff provided conflicting accounts of the circumstances surrounding the death of her stepfather.
The Whitehorse Emergency Shelter, the management of which the Government of Yukon has outsourced to the Connective Society, is under scrutiny again after another resident died on its premises.
Leonard James Capot-Blanc 56, of Whitehorse, passed away on December 18 while accessing the shelter at 405 Alexander Street.
Neither the shelter nor the coroner's office would confirm his death, nor the cause.
But Nikita Bailey has confirmed to CHON-FM that it was her stepfather.
Nobody from the shelter contacted her; she heard about his death from someone else and had to reach out to the shelter herself and still has not been told the cause.
"I was told that my (step) father took drugs in the lobby, slipped, and died," said Bailey. "My sister was told that our (step) father died in the shower room."
Bailey's biological father also died at the shelter in 2021.
Capot-Blanc's death raises questions once again about the shelter's policy on checking on guests using the shower room.
In April, the coroner's inquest into four shelter deaths revealed that at least one death may have been prevented if staff had checked on a resident who had been in the shower room for an extended period of time.
Bailey says she has lost of confidence in the Connective Society's ability to run the shelter. Her concerns echo those of multiple organizations and individuals who have been calling for greater accountability and transparency from Connective and the Government of Yukon about what takes place inside Whitehorse Emergency Shelter.
PHOTO: Nikita Bailey with her stepfather Leonard Capot-Blanc, who died this week at the Whitehorse Emergency Shelter.
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