The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Gnawing hunger: Nearly half of college kids reported food insecurity in a new survey out of Temple University. 
   
• Peruse 85,000 police misconduct files. #squadgoals 
   
• Adorable defector or Trojan Beluga? Alleged Russian spy whale won’t leave Norwegians alone. 
   
• Twitter’s Jack Dorsey hypes pseudoscience to credulous tech bros. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• 31,000 Stop & Shop workers went on strike this week, making this the country’s largest private sector strike in years. 
   
• Manhattan DA’s office had graphic proof that Jeffrey Epstein was the most serious kind of sex offender, but gave him a lenient rating anyway.
   
• Luxurious Hudson Yards: Let them eat tasteful performance spaces!  
   
• A white NBA player reflects on privilege, allyship, and race. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• 2019 Canadian Hillman Prize winners honored in Toronto last night!
   
• CBC’s The Fifth Estate wins the 2019 Canadian Hillman Prize for “Unbuckled,” an inquiry into why Canadian school buses lack seatbelts.
   
• The Logic garners an Honorable Mention for “Sidewalk Toronto,” an exposé of an under-regulated Big Tech project.
   
• The Toronto Star earns an Honorable Mention for “The Fix,” a story about a revolution in dementia care. 

The 2019 Canadian Hillman Prize goes to the CBC’s Fifth Estate for “Unbuckled: School Bus Safety,” a sweeping investigation that began with a simple question: “Why aren’t seatbelts required on the buses that ferry 2 million Canadian kids to school each day?” Transport Canada, the agency that regulates the buses, claimed that school bus belts were unnecessary and possibly even dangerous. 

In the course of their four-month investigation, Bob McKeown, Harvey Cashore and Kimberly Ivany found that Transport Canada failed to disclose their own internal research showing that seatbelts could have prevented thousands of injuries and several deaths. Amazingly, in the wake of the broadcast, Transport Canada issued its first ever statement that school bus belts do indeed prevent injuries.

An honorable mention goes to The Toronto Star for “The Fix: One Peel nursing home took a gamble on fun, life and love.”

A second honorable mention goes to “Sidewalk Toronto,” by The Logic, a critical examination of The Alphabet’s Sidewalk Toronto Project on the Toronto waterfront.

Click here for full details about our winners and honorees. 

We will mark the 9th Annual Canadian Hillman Prize with a ceremony and reception on March 28 in Toronto.