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Canadian Hillman Prize Previous Honourees

2020 Canadian Hillman Prize

2020 Canadian Hillman Prize WinnersGarth Mullins, Sam Fenn, Lisa Hale, Alexander B. Kim, Ryan McNeil, Laura Shaver, Chereece Keewatin

Change Intolerance (Parts 1 and 2)​

Crackdown

2020 Hillman Canada Prize for Democracy and Social Justice

2020 Hillman Canada Prize for Democracy and Social Justice WinnersHarsha Walia, Executive Director; Josh Paterson; Grace Pastine, Litigation Director; Iman Baobeid, Communications and Outreach Manager

BC Civil Liberties Association

2019 Canadian Hillman Prize

2019 Canadian Hillman Prize WinnersHarvey Cashore, Bob McKeown, Kimberly Ivany, Aileen McBride, Saman Malik, Doug Husby, Lisa Mayor

Unbuckled: School Bus Safety​

CBC’s The Fifth Estate

2019 Honourable Mention2019 Honourable Mention

Moira Welsh, Randy Risling

The Fix

Toronto Star

2019 Honourable Mention

2019 Honourable Mention

Amanda Roth, Zane Schwartz, Murad Hemmadi, Sean Craig

Sidewalk Toronto

The Logic

2018 Canadian Hillman Prize

2018 Canadian Hillman Prize WinnersJayme Poisson, David Bruser

Grassy Narrows mercury contamination​

The Toronto Star

2018 Honourable Mention2018 Honourable Mention

Patti Sonntag, Robert Cribb, Mike De Souza, Carolyn Jarvis, Elizabeth McSheffrey, Patricia W. Elliott, and journalism students at the universities of Concordia, Ryerson, Regina and British Columbia

The Price of Oil

A collaboration of the Toronto Star, National Observer, Global News, the Corporate Mapping Project, and four Canadian universities

2018 Honourable Mention2018 Honourable Mention

Hilary Beaumont, Martha Troian, Justin Ling, Victoria Ptashnick, Mallika Viegas, Natalie Alcoba

Canada’s Indigenous water crisis

VICE News

2017 Canadian Hillman Prize Winners2017 Canadian Hillman Prize

Min Sook Lee, Lisa Valencia-Svensson

Migrant Dreams

TVO

2017 Honourable Mention

Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Melissa Renwick, Paul Watson, Cameron Tulk, Kelsey Wilson, Frances Kelly

A workers’ compensation system in crisis

Toronto Star

2016 Canadian Hillman Prize

The 2016 Hillman Prize judges chose three pieces that brought to light critical new information on the subject of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada and contributed to the federal government’s decision to call an inquiry into this tragedy.

2016 Canadian Hillman Prize WinnerKathryn Blaze Baum, Renata D’Aliesio, Matthew McClearn, Laura Blenkinsop, Chris Manza, Kristy Hoffman

“A Country’s Crisis: Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women”

The Globe and Mail

 

2016 Canadian Hillman Prize WinnerJosée Dupuis, Emmanuel Marchand

SQ abuse: women break the silence”

Radio-Canada’s Enquête

 

2016 Canadian Hillman Prize WinnerCecil Rosner, Cate Friesen, Connie Walker, Duncan McCue, William Wolfe-Wylie, Richard Grasley, Michael Leschart, Michael Pereira, Tiar Wilson, Kimberly Ivany, Martha Troian, Chantelle Bellrichard, Joanne Levasseur, Teghan Beaudette, Kristy Hoffman, Donna Lee, Tara Lindemann

“Missing and Murdered: Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls”

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Desmond Cole2016 Honourable Mention

Desmond Cole

“The Skin I’m In”

Toronto Life

 

Toronto StarAndrew Bailey, Desmond Cole, Wendy Gillis, San Grewal, Royson James, Hidy Ng, Jim Rankin, Patty Winsa

“Known to Police”

The Toronto Star

Ed Tubb2016 Honourable Mention

Ed Tubb

“Minding the Monster”

The Walrus

2015 Honourable Mention

Kevin Rollason

While He Waited

Winnipeg Free Press

2015 Honourable Mention

Kathy Tomlinson & Raj Ahluwalia

Employer Abuses of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program

CBC News The National

2014 Canadian Hillman Prize Winner2014 Canadian Hillman Prize

Karen Kleiss and Darcy Henton

Fatal Care

Edmonton Journal/Calgary Herald

View Karen and Darcy’s acceptance speech

2012 Canadian Hillman Prize

Diana Swain, Timothy Sawa, Angela Gilbert

Scout’s Honour

CBC Investigative Unit and the fifth estate

View Diana, Timothy, and Angela’s acceptance speech

2011 Canadian Hillman Prize

Steve Buist

“Code Red”

Hamilton Spectator

2011 Honourable Mention

Tyler Walsh, Helen Fallding, Joe Bryksa

“No Running Water”

Winnipeg Free Press