Attention, journalists, editors, and awards coordinators:

The Sidney Hillman Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2021 Canadian Hillman Prize honouring excellence in investigative journalism!​

The Canadian Hillman Prize celebrates print, digital and broadcast reporting that highlights injustice and leads to public policy change. 

Winning entries will be judged on the following criteria: 

• Significance of journalism in service of the common good
• Resourcefulness and courage in reporting 
• Skill in relating the story and impact of the coverage

Eligibility: Entries must be published or broadcast in 2020 and have been made widely available to a Canadian audience. Nominated material and a cover letter explaining how the entry meets the requirements can be submitted here. Deadline: January, 15, 2021. There is no fee to enter.

The winner will receive a $5000 honorarium and a certificate at an event to be held in Toronto (or celebrated virtually) on March 25, 2021. The winner will also receive travel to New York City to attend the U.S. Hillman Prize Ceremony (if it will be held person). 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• The Trump campaign makes an all-out push to disenfranchise Pennsylvanians as election-defenders call out a potential bid to steal the state’s electoral votes. (NYT, New Yorker)
   
• Republican voter intimidation is already being felt at the polls. (In These Times)
   
• Video surfaces of Philadelphia police beating the driver of an SUV with a child in the back seat. (Philly Inquirer)
   
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was secretly on the board of a Chinese-US joint venture while heading up trade policy. (Foreign Policy)
   
• In Duterte’s Philippines, fake news meets red-baiting and turns lethal. (Rest of the World)
   
• Millions of people still haven’t received their stimulus checks. (ProPublica)
   
• The Trump administration has rolled back over 125 environmental safeguards including opening “America’s Amazon” to timber sales to China. (WaPo, Outside)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• How these tenants evicted their landlord. (NYT)
   
• Trump boasts that he sent a death squad to gun down a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. The suspect was getting into his car when officers rolled up and shot him without warning, spraying nearby homes with bullets. (KATU, NYT) 
   
• California prisoners were put to work sewing masks, but not allowed to wear them, as an outbreak spread through their factory. (LA Times)
   
• How Silicon Valley brought piecework back. (Dissent)
   
• A high-stakes plan to save the Supreme Court (Slate)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Who will stand up for Black women? (The Nation)
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• Worker injuries at Amazon have risen every year for the last four years, totaling over 14,000 serious injuries. (Reveal) 
   
• Police in the Bronx kettled and beat peaceful protesters in violation of international law, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. (HRW)
   
• The GOP-connected firm that bungled New York’s absentee ballots will get a do-over. (The City)
   
• How Trump summoned a red state army to DC and could do it again. (WaPo)
   
• House Democrats pass a $2.2 trillion COVID relief package and put pressure on the GOP Senate majority to end the most unequal recession of our time. (Politico, WaPo)