The Canadian Association of Journalists is
The winning entry in each category will receive a $1,000 cash prize. All winners will be announced May 26, 2024 at the CAJ Awards Banquet being held at the CAJ/Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Toronto, May 24-27,
2007.
The Don McGillivray Award for the best ‘overall’ investigative report for 2024 will also be announced at the awards banquet.
Please note that the media outlet listed is where the finalist worked at the time their entry was broadcast/published or where the particular entry was broadcast/published.
The finalists in the OPEN NEWSPAPER/WIRE SERVICE (circulation (greater than)25,000) category are:
Shelley Page
Falling Heroes
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Ottawa Citizen
Stewart Bell, Adrian Humphreys, Graeme Hamilton
Russian Spy
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National Post
Jessica Leeder and Robert Cribb
Road Unworthy
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The Toronto Star
Steve Ladurantaye
One Costly Crash
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The Kingston Whig-Standard
Kevin Donovan and Jessica Leeder
Addicts at Risk
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The Toronto Star
The finalists in the COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER category (circulation under
25,000) are:
Bruce Urquhart
Councillors, ratepayers in the dark about city’s pay-as-you go system.
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Woodstock Sentinel-Review
Heather Rivers and Elliot Ferguson
Changing Faith
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Woodstock Sentinel-Review
Hugo Rodrigues
Is the Province’s risk management program dead?
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Woodstock Sentinel-Review
Steve Bonspiel
The classroom in crisis
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The Nation
Steve Bonspiel
Does the punishment fit the crime?
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The Nation
The finalists in the OPEN TELEVISION (greater than 5 minutes) category
are:
Gilllian Findlay, Harvey Cashore, Linda Guerriero, Jim Holt
Luck of the Draw
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CBC News – the fifth estate
Harvey Cashore, Linden MacIntyre, Howard Goldenthal
Money, Truth and Spin
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CBC News – the fifth estate
Susan Teskey
Toxic Legacy
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CBC Television
Julian Sher
Nuclear Jihad
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CBC Television
John Kastner
Monster in the Family
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CTV News
The finalists in the OPEN TELEVISION (Less than 5 minutes) category are:
Linden MacIntyre, Neil Docherty, Nazim Baksh
The Mole
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CBC News – The National
Conway Fraser, Joanne Levasseur, Adam Rickner
Risky Drugs
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CBC News – Canada Now
Steve Chao
Life on the Run
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CTV News
Kathy Tomlinson and Patti-Ann Finlay
Manifold Gaskets, Manifold Problems
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CTV
Terry Milewski, Nazim Baksh, Leanne Hazon
Terror Suspects Arrested, Pursuing Leads
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CBC News – The National
The finalists in the OPEN RADIO NEWS/CURRENT AFFAIRS category are:
Declan Hill and Dick Miller
Speaking the Truth
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CBC Radio – The Current
Bob Carty and Karen Levine
The Body Bazaar
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CBC Radio -Sunday Edition
Karen Pauls, Susanne Reber, Myke Clark, Lisa Hébert, Hugette Young
Modern Day Slavery
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CBC News – Investigative Unit
Kellie Hudson, Sandra Bartlett, Susanne Reber, Dick Miller, John Nichol
Landslide – World Wide Net
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CBC News – Investigative Unit
Josée Guérin
Les Jeunes Accros a la marijuana
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Equipe d’enquête et d’affaires publiques, Radio-Canada – Ottawa
The finalists in the REGIONAL TELEVISION category are:
Robert Jones
Reform Windfall
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CBC News – Saint John
Jim Beatty
Filthy Foster Homes
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CTV News – Vancouver
Robert Jones
The Arrest of Charles LeBlanc
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CBC News – Saint John
Kelly Dehn
Finding Erin
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CTV News- Winnipeg
Geoff Leo
Not So Safe House
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CBC News – Saskatchewan
The finalists in the CAJ/CCNMatthews COMPUTER-ASSISTED REPORTING (CAR)
category are:
Susanne Reber, David McKie, Phil Harbord, Bob Murphy, Jack Julian, Alison
Myers, Frank Koller, Bilbo Poynter, Dick Miller, Rachel Gaulin, Tyana
Grundig, Karina Roman, Lisa Hébert
Dying for a Job
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CBC News – Investigative Unit
Fred Vallance-Jones, Robert Cribb, Tamsin McMahon
Collision Course
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The Hamilton Spectator
Robert Cribb and Jessica Leeder
Road Unworthy
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The Toronto Star
Kevin McGran and Andrew Bailey
Tragedy on the Tracks
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The Toronto Star
Laurie Monsebraaten and Joan Sweeney-Marsh
Poll 37
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The Toronto Star
The finalists in the PHOTOJOURNALISM category are:
Louie Palu
Afghanistan: Ghosts of War
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The Globe and Mail
Julie Oliver
The Insidious Fog and Falling Heroes
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The Ottawa Citizen
Steve Russell
Exodus from Lebanon
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The Toronto Star
Larry Wong
Photo Essay
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Edmonton Journal
Bruce Edwards
Soldier Paul
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Edmonton Journal
The finalists in the MAGAZINE category are:
Andrew Mitrovica
Hear No Evil, Write No Lies
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The Walrus
Jeremy Klaszus
Big Oil on Trial
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Alberta Views
Matt McClearn and Doug Watt
When the Whistle Stops
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Canadian Business
Jared Ferrie
Some Say Terror Label Prolongs Sri Lanka War
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Metro Vancouver
Susan McClelland
The Unusual Suspects
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Chatelaine
The finalists in the FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY category are:
Robert Sibley
Faith, Nihilism, and Wonder
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Ottawa Citizen
Evan Solomon, Natasha Sweeney, Bryan Gardner
Opus Dei
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CBC News: Sunday
Kevin O’Keefe
Evangelical Tourism
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Vision TV
Thérèse Champagne and Denis Grenier
La Route Des Temples
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Radio-Canada Television – British Columbia and Yukon
Douglas Todd
Divorce in a Jewish Court
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Vancouver Sun
The finalists for the CAJ/CNW Student Award of Excellence are:
Sarah Boothroyd
This Old House
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Carleton University
Kevin Kwok Wong
Blinded by the Light
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University of Toronto
Koraleen Jarvis and Alicia Asquith
Winter in the Heartland, Death of the Family Farm
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BCIT
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Melanie Bidiuk
Ontario’s Bald Eagles Face New Pressure
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Loyalist College
Diana Ginsberg
Amethyst House
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Carleton University
Congratulations to all our finalists. Your work has been outstanding and we thank all of you for sending in your entries. The judges were particularly impressed with the quality of the entries submitted for 2024.
The CAJ Awards are judged by former journalists. Special thanks goes out to all the award judges who spent countless hours going through the entries.
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