Canadian Hillman Prize Previous Honourees
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| Year | Award Type | Category | Honoree | Title | Publisher/Airer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Local News | Drew Anderson | 'We will not lie': Inside Alberta’s renewables pause | The Narwhal | |
| 2025 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Broadcast | Avery Haines, Eric Szeto, Maria Teresa Scotti, Jerry Vienneau, Angelo Altomare | Narco Jungle: The Darién Gap | CTV W5 | |
| 2025 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Print/Digital | Grant Robertson and Kathryn Blaze Baum | THE ALGORITHM: An investigation into Canada's deadly listeria outbreak, and how the country's food safety system operates | The Globe and Mail | |
| 2024 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Print/Digital | Steven Chase and Robert Fife | Foreign Interference | The Globe and Mail | |
| 2024 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Broadcast | Brandi Morin and Geordie Day | Killer Water: The Toxic Legacy of Canada's Oil Sands Industry on Indigenous Communities | Ricochet Media/The Real News Network/IndigiNews Media | |
| 2024 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Local News | Aaron Derfel | Staff haunted by preventable deaths at Lakeshore Hospital ER | Montreal Gazette | |
| 2023 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Rachel Mendleson and Steve Buist | Unchartered | The Toronto Star, The Hamilton Spectator | ||
| 2023 | Honourable Mention | Chantal Levigne and Gil Shochat | Recycling’s Dirty Secrets/Les sales secrets du recyclage | Société Radio-Canada Enquête | ||
| 2023 | Honourable Mention | Andrew Russell, Carolyn Jarvis, Michael Wrobel, and Kenneth Jackson | Profiting Off Kids | Global News and APTN | ||
| 2022 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Nicholas Hune-Brown | The Shadowy Business of International Education | The Walrus | ||
| 2022 | Honourable Mention | Noor Javed, Steve Buist, Emma McIntosh, Sheila Wang | Friends with Benefits series: Hwy 413/MZOs/Bradford Bypass | Torstar/Toronto Star and Canada’s National Observer | ||
| 2022 | Honourable Mention | Sylvie Fournier and Judith Plamondon | They Stole My Fertility | Société Radio-Canada | ||
| 2021 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Grant Robertson | ‘We are not prepared’: The flaws inside Public Health that hurt Canada’s readiness for COVID-19 | The Globe and Mail | ||
| 2021 | Honourable Mention | Kenneth Jackson, Cullen Crozier | The Death Report | Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) | ||
| 2021 | Honourable Mention | Steve Buist, Katrina Clarke, Joanna Frketich | House of Horrors: Hamilton’s Rosslyn Retirement Residence | The Hamilton Spectator | ||
| 2020 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Garth Mullins, Sam Fenn, Lisa Hale, Alexander B. Kim, Ryan McNeil, Laura Shaver, Chereece Keewatin | Change Intolerance (Parts 1 and 2) | Crackdown | ||
| 2020 | Honourable Mention | Andréanne Baribeau, Joanne Belluco, Étienne Fortin-Gauthier, Aime Majeau Beauchamp, Gisèle Quenneville | Les Accents | ONFR+/TFO | ||
| 2020 | Hillman Canada Prize for Democracy and Social Justice | BC Civil Liberties Association | ||||
| 2019 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Harvey Cashore, Bob McKeown, Kimberly Ivany, Aileen McBride, Saman Malik, Doug Husby, Lisa Mayor | Unbuckled: School Bus Safety | CBC’s The Fifth Estate | ||
| 2019 | Honourable Mention | Moira Welsh, Randy Risling | The Fix | The Toronto Star | ||
| 2019 | Honourable Mention | Amanda Roth, Zane Schwartz, Murad Hemmadi, Sean Craig | Sidewalk Toronto | The Logic | ||
| 2018 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Jayme Poisson and David Bruser | Grassy Narrows mercury contamination | The Toronto Star | ||
| 2018 | Honourable Mention | Patti Sonntag, Robert Cribb, Mike De Souza, Carolyn Jarvis, Elizabeth McSheffrey, P.W. Elliott | The Price of Oil | The National Observer, The Toronto Star, Global News, the Corporate Mapping Project, and four Canadian universities | ||
| 2018 | Honourable Mention | Hilary Beaumont, Martha Troian | Canada’s Indigenous water crisis | VICE News | ||
| 2017 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Min Sook Lee and 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 | The Toronto Star | ||
| 2017 | Honourable Mention | Jorge Barrera, Mark Blackburn, Francine Compton | APTN Investigates: Quest for Innocence | Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) | ||
| 2016 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Kathryn 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 Winner | Josée Dupuis, Emmanuel Marchand | SQ abuse: women break the silence | Radio-Canada’s Enquête | ||
| 2016 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Cecil 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, and others | “Missing and Murdered: Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls” | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | ||
| 2016 | Honourable Mention | Desmond Cole | “The Skin I’m In” | Toronto Life | ||
| 2016 | Honourable Mention | Andrew Bailey, Desmond Cole, Wendy Gillis, San Grewal, Royson James, Hidy Ng, Jim Rankin, Patty Winsa | “Known to Police” | The Toronto Star | ||
| 2016 | Honourable Mention | Ed Tubb | “Minding the Monster” | The Walrus | ||
| 2015 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Kevin Donovan, Jesse Brown, Jayme Poisson, Emily Mathieu, Randy Risling | Sexual Assault and Harassment in Canada — from Jian Ghomeshi to College Campuses | The Toronto Star | ||
| 2015 | Honourable Mention | Kevin Rollason | While He Waited | Winnipeg Free Press | ||
| 2015 | Honourable Mention | Kathy Tomlinson and Raj Ahluwalia | Employer Abuses of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program | CBC News: The National | ||
| 2014 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Karen Kleiss and Darcy Henton | Fatal Care | Edmonton Journal/Calgary Herald | ||
| 2014 | Honourable Mention | Gabrielle Duchaine and Caroline Touzin | Ces Routes qui Tuent (Roads That Kill) | La Presse | ||
| 2014 | Honourable Mention | J.J. Adams, Cassidy Olivier, Cheryl Chan, Elaine O’Connor, Susan Lazaruk, Sam Cooper, Jon Ferry, Erik Rolfsen, Rafe Arnott, Ben Ngai, Katie Mercer, Jason Payne, Arlen Redekop, and Carolyn Soltau | Racism in Paradise | The Province | ||
| 2013 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher | Investigation of robocalls and voters suppression in the 2011 federal election | Ottawa Citizen | ||
| 2013 | Honourable Mention | Katie DeRosa | Special Report: An investigation of Canada’s refugee policy | Times-Colonist | ||
| 2013 | Honourable Mention | Elise Stolte | Why aren’t First Nation’s kids in school? | Edmonton Journal | ||
| 2012 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Diana Swain, Timothy Sawa, Angela Gilbert | Scout’s Honour | CBC Investigative Unit and the fifth estate | ||
| 2011 | Canadian Hillman Prize Winner | Steve Buist | Code Red | The Hamilton Spectator | ||
| 2011 | Honourable Mention | Tyler Walsh, Helen Fallding, Joe Bryksa | No Running Water | Winnipeg Free Press |