Arts and Entertainment
Winner: Tavia Grant, The Globe and Mail, for her work on the Vatican’s unfulfilled promises to return cultural items that originated in Indigenous communities in Canada — and how Canada lags behind other countries when it comes to national repatriation frameworks.
Beat Reporting
Winner: Susan Clairmont, Hamilton Spectator, for her exclusive reporting and authoritative analysis as a court reporter.
Breaking News
Winner: The Globe and Mail, for coverage of one of the defining stories of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games: Canada’s women’s soccer team and the drone scandal.
Business
Winners: Robert Cribb, Max Binks-Collier, Masih Khalatbari, Charlie Buckley and Habiba Nosheen, Toronto Star/Investigative Journalism Bureau, for their reporting on Canada’s “exploitative” clinical trial industry, where study participants say they’re incentivized to lie — even about medications’ side effects.
Columns
Winner: Isabelle Hachey, La Presse, for columns on a stalker who falsified claims in order to receive cheques from an organization that compensates victims of criminal acts, MAID and dementia, and lessons from Air India Flight 182.
Editorial Cartooning
Winner: Michael de Adder, The Chronicle Herald/The Globe and Mail
Editorial Writing
Winner: Peter McKnight, Toronto Star, for editorials about Medical Assistance in Dying, the health disparity between Inuit people and the rest of Canadians, and problems with Ontario’s approach to screening criminal charges.
Explanatory Work
Winner: Zosia Bielski, The Globe and Mail, for her nuanced exploration of Canadian laws that criminalize HIV non-disclosure — and put Canada out of step with modern science and the rest of the developed world.
Feature Photo
Winner: Kari Medig, The Globe and Mail, for his photo of double amputee Oleksandr Budko and the Wild Bear Vets program, created to support veterans with PTSD.
International Reporting
Winner: Mark MacKinnon, The Globe and Mail, for his comprehensive, human-driven reporting on the Russian war on Ukraine.
Investigations
Winners: Robert Cribb, Wendy-Ann Clarke, Declan Keogh and Owen Thompson, Toronto Star/Investigative Journalism Bureau, for their reporting on a program meant to fund mental health care for First Nations and Inuit people but is instead failing them.
Journalist of the Year
Winner: Aaron Beswick, The Chronicle Herald, for his coverage of the lawlessness in Nova Scotia’s lobster and eel fisheries, including poaching, boats and buildings being burned, and the emergence of organized crime and international smuggling operations.
Local Reporting
Winner: Aaron Beswick, The Chronicle Herald, for his coverage of the lawlessness in Nova Scotia’s lobster and eel fisheries, including poaching, boats and buildings being burned, and the emergence of organized crime and international smuggling operations.
Long Feature
Winner: Brandon Harder, Regina Leader-Post, for his painstaking re-creation of what happened when police went undercover to wring out a confession from a cold-case murderer.
News Photo
Winner: Carlos Osorio, Reuters, for his aerial photo of the message “We Will Return” spray-painted on the vacated grounds of a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto.
Photo Story
Winner: Carlos Osorio, Reuters, for his coverage of the U.S. election.
Award for Politics
Winner: Rachel Mendleson and R.J. Johnston, Toronto Star, for their coverage of Pickering city council and how the alt-right movement is disrupting libraries, school boards and other local democratic institutions across Canada.
Presentation/Design
Winners: Timothy Moore, The Globe and Mail, for his portfolio of work on science and sailing, breaking’s debut as an Olympic sport, and how to master skating later in life.
Project of the Year
Winner: Toronto Star, for their work on childhood sexual abuse and the complicated legacy of Canadian literary hero Alice Munro.
Short Feature
Winner: Jordan Himelfarb, Toronto Star, for his feature on 18-year-old world champion Gukesh Dommaraju and the dawning of a new golden age in chess.
Journalism in a Language other than French or English
Winners: Venus Ho, Cissy Hsu, Henry Wong, Cliff Yau and Norman Sin, Sing Tao, for their month-long investigation into the sale of fraudulent mooncakes at Asian food markets in Toronto and the impact on Hong Kong diaspora consumers.
Sports
Winners: Greg Mercer, Nancy Macdonald and Simon Houpt, The Globe and Mail, for their coverage of Canada Soccer in the wake of the spying scandal at the Paris Olympic Games.
Sports Photo
Winners: Olivier Jean, La Presse, for capturing a spontaneous moment of joy between Andre De Grasse and Aaron Brown after they won Olympic gold in the men’s 4×100-metre relay in Paris.
Sustained News Coverage
Winners: The Globe and Mail, for their year-long exploration of the root causes of housing shortages and creative ideas that could help solve the crisis.
Special Recognition Citation
Globe Photojournalism Summit, for bringing together 46 photojournalists from across Canada for presentations by industry experts, roundtables, a panel discussion and a celebration of attendees’ work.
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