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Michener Award

The Michener Award is one of the highest distinctions in Canadian journalism. The award was founded in 1970 by Roland Michener, who was Governor General of Canada at the time, and his wife Norah. The idea for the award was developed in 1969 with Bill MacPherson, then president of the National Press Club and managing editor of the Ottawa Citizen, who remained a secretary of the committee administering the award until his death. Since 1970, the Michener Award has been presented yearly by the Governor General at Rideau Hall to a Canadian news organization "whose entry is judged to have made a significant impact on public policy or on the lives of Canadians".[1]

Although the award is presented to media organizations rather than individual journalists, five individuals of the nominated finalists are invited to the award ceremony so that their contributions can also be acknowledged. Since 1987, the Michener Foundation also awards annually the Michener-Deacon Fellowship, which provides financial support to a journalist wishing to complete a project that serves the Canadian public interest. The fellowship is named in honor of Roland Michener and late journalist Paul Deacon.

Past winners

Where multiple winners are combined in the table below, the winning work was a collaborative joint project of both news organizations. If two distinct pieces simply finished in a tie, then each work is listed on a separate line.

YearRecipientsWorkRefs.
1970Financial Post and CBC TelevisionThe Charter Revolution, a collaborative investigation of the air charter business.[2]
1971CBC TelevisionThe Tenth Decade, a documentary series about Canadian politics in the John Diefenbaker era.[2]
1972The Globe and MailReportage on political conflicts of interest in Ontario.[2]
Halifax Scotian JournalistReportage on conditions at a women's prison in Moncton, New Brunswick.
1973CTV News"Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil", an hour-long documentary on the use of covert listening devices and the Canadian government's attempts to legislate around them.[2]
1974Montreal GazetteInvestigation into real estate development in Montreal.[2]
1975Montreal GazetteInvestigation into treatment of girls in youth detention.[2]
London Free PressSeries on mercury poisoning in Ontario.
1976Vancouver SunUncovering a series of illegal break-ins by the RCMP.[2]
1977The Globe and MailA year-long series of articles calling for reform in systems of child protection.[2]
1978Kitchener-Waterloo RecordInvestigation into health and safety conditions at area meat packing plants, which had to be investigated by inspectors from the United States Department of Agriculture due to Canadian inaction.[2]
1979Kingston Whig-StandardInvestigation of unsafe emissions from an aluminum plant in Massena, New York, and their effect on the health of residents of Cornwall and Cornwall.[2]
1980Edmonton JournalInvestigation into abuse in Alberta's child welfare system.[2]
1981CFTM-DT (Montreal)Investigation into management problems at Quebec's Fédération des caisses d’entraide économique.[2]
Kitchener-Waterloo RecordInvestigation into a real estate fraud scheme which led to the first jail term ever imposed under Canadian securities legislation.
1982Manitoulin ExpositorInvestigation into a local suicide rate almost twice the national average, which led to the creation of a new suicide prevention hotline in Sudbury-Manitoulin.[3]
1983Kitchener-Waterloo RecordSeparate stories on Revenue Canada's tax collecting methods, high pressure stock sales in Ontario and quality control problems in farm supply industries, which had been submitted separately but were all judged to be of sufficiently high quality to be honoured collectively.[2]
1984Kingston Whig-StandardStory on federal tax reform.[2]
1985The Globe and MailProblems affecting immigrants.[2]
Toronto StarSeries on ethnic minority communities in Toronto.
1986The Globe and MailCoverage of an amendment to the Criminal Code which impacted freedom of the press.[2]
1987CBC TelevisionRunaways: 24 Hours on the Street, a documentary about homeless youth.[2]
Southam News"Southam Literary Project", a series on literacy skills in Canada which sparked a major expansion of adult education programs to assist adults with learning disabilities and other literacy issues.
1988The Globe and MailThree investigative reports into real estate corruption in York Region, failures in Canada's business-class immigration programs, and failures by Ontario athletic commissioner Clyde Gray to properly enforce safety regulations in boxing.[2]
1989Le DevoirCoverage of efforts to expand indigenous self-government rights in the Nunavik region of Quebec.[2]
1990Elmira IndependentCoverage of contamination of the local water supply with dimethylnitrosamine from a Uniroyal plant.[2]
1991CBC Television, Toronto and WinnipegCollaborative reports on health insurance fraud, police corruption, furnace repair fraud, immigration practices, a federal tax loophole, and abuse of First Nations band government funds.[2]
1992Edmonton Journal"Psychiatry on Trial", an examination of the judicial system's reliance on psychiatric testimony.[2]
1993Ottawa CitizenCoverage of a government plan to privatize Toronto Pearson International Airport.[2]
The Globe and MailCoverage of the Canadian Red Cross scandal around HIV-tainted blood in the medical blood donation system.
1994CKNW (New Westminster, British Columbia)Coverage of a controversial power plant.[2]
1995CBO-FM, OttawaInvestigation of the Somalia Affair, a military scandal surrounding Operation Deliverance.[2]
1996Toronto StarReports on spousal abuse in Ontario and flaws in the province's child protection system.[2]
1997Halifax Daily NewsSeries of articles by David Rodenhiser documenting sexual abuse in Nova Scotia reform schools.[2]
1998Toronto StarSeries of reports on problems of Ontario's health care system.[2]
1999CBC National Radio News, WinnipegCurt Petrovich's work to uncover a scandal involving the Progressive Conservative Party's funding of Independent Native Voice during the 1995 Manitoba provincial election.[2]
2000The Fifth EstateSeries of reports on mistakes and abuse of the police and the justice system.[2]
2001The RecordInvestigation of the misuse of municipal funds involving MFP Financial Services Ltd. (see RIM Park funding controversy).[2]
2002Toronto StarInvestigation into Race and Crime series of articles.[2]
2003La PresseTwo series of articles on poor hospital care in Montreal.[2]
2004The Globe and MailInvestigative work on the sponsorship scandal by Daniel Leblanc and Campbell Clark.[2]
2005The Globe and MailSeries of articles on breast cancer by Lisa Priest.[2]
2006Prince George Citizenseries of articles on the safety of truck drivers in the logging industry.[2]
2007The Globe and Mail and La PresseSeries of articles on the treatment of prisoners of the Canadian forces in Afghanistan, particularly after their handing over to Afghan security forces.[2]
2008CBC News and The Canadian PressJoint project that investigated the use of taser guns by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.[2]
2009Montreal GazetteReporting on the mismanagement of a water management project in Montreal.[2]
2010the fifth estateReporting on the incarceration and death of Ashley Smith.[2]
2011Victoria Times-ColonistReporting on a British Columbia government policy that reduced support for people with developmental disabilities.[2]
2012Postmedia and the Ottawa CitizenReporting that exposed the "robocall scandal" in the 2011 Canadian federal election.[2]
2013Toronto StarCoverage of Rob Ford's substance abuse issues.[2]
2014The Globe and MailSeries on thalidomide.[4]
2015Enquête"Abus de la SQ: les femmes brisent le silence", an investigation into ongoing physical and sexual abuse of indigenous women in Val-d'Or, Quebec.[2]
2016London Free Press"Indiscernible", a series that chronicled the jailhouse death of a man with mental illness.[5]
2017The Globe and MailInvestigation into how Canadian police handle sexual assault complaints.[6]
2018Telegraph-Journal"Sounding the Alarm", a series on understaffing of emergency medical services in New Brunswick.[2]
2019The Globe and Mail"False Promises", an investigation into exploitation of temporary workers and foreign students by unscrupulous immigration consultants.[7]
2020APTN"Death by Neglect", an investigation into how indigenous children are being failed by the child protection system.[8]
2021CBC Saskatoon and The Globe and MailCoverage of the campaign to convince the Roman Catholic Church to compensate victims of the Canadian Indian residential school system.
2022The Globe and Mail"Hockey Canada’s Secret Funds", coverage of the revelations that Hockey Canada was secretly paying out millions of dollars in compensation to settle sexual assault claims without publicly disclosing its use of the money.

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