Canadian Hillman Prize Previous Honourees
2022 Canadian Hillman Prize
Nicholas Hune-BrownThe 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
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
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 QuennevilleLes Accents
ONFR+/TFO
2020 Hillman Canada Prize for Democracy and Social Justice
Harsha Walia, Executive Director; Josh Paterson; Grace Pastine, Litigation Director; Iman Baobeid, Communications and Outreach ManagerBC Civil Liberties Association
2019 Canadian Hillman Prize
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
Amanda Roth, Zane Schwartz, Murad Hemmadi, Sean Craig
Sidewalk Toronto
The Logic
2018 Canadian Hillman Prize
Jayme Poisson, David BruserGrassy Narrows mercury contamination
The Toronto Star
2018 Honourable Mention
The Price of Oil
A collaboration of the Toronto Star, National Observer, Global News, the Corporate Mapping Project, and four Canadian universities
2018 Honourable Mention
Hilary Beaumont, Martha Troian, Justin Ling, Victoria Ptashnick, Mallika Viegas, Natalie Alcoba
Canada’s Indigenous water crisis
VICE News
2017 Honourable Mention
Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Melissa Renwick, Paul Watson, Cameron Tulk, Kelsey Wilson, Frances Kelly
A workers’ compensation system in crisis
Toronto Star
2017 Honourable Mention
APTN Investigates: Quest for Innocence
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
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.
“A Country’s Crisis: Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women”
The Globe and Mail
Josée Dupuis, Emmanuel Marchand
“SQ abuse: women break the silence”
Radio-Canada’s Enquête
“Missing and Murdered: Unsolved Cases of Indigenous Women and Girls”
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
2016 Honourable Mention
“The Skin I’m In”
Toronto Life
“Known to Police”
The Toronto Star
2015 Canadian Hillman Prize
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
Kathy Tomlinson & Raj Ahluwalia
Employer Abuses of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
CBC News The National
2014 Canadian Hillman Prize
Edmonton Journal/Calgary Herald
2014 Honourable Mention
Gabrielle Duchaine and Caroline Touzin
Ces Routes qui Tuent (Roads That Kill)
La Presse
2014 Honourable Mention
The Province
2013 Canadian Hillman Prize
Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher
Investigation of robocalls and voters suppression in the 2011 federal election
Ottawa Citizen/PostMedia News
2013 Honourable Mention
2013 Honourable Mention
2012 Canadian Hillman Prize
Diana Swain, Timothy Sawa, Angela Gilbert
CBC Investigative Unit and the fifth estate
2011 Canadian Hillman Prize
2011 Honourable Mention