P.E.I.'s Eastern Graphic among 5 Canadian newsrooms nominated for prestigious prize
CBC
The small P.E.I. newsroom that publishes the Eastern Graphic is a Michener Award finalist for its 'Through the Cracks' series on people struggling with severe addiction, mental health issues and homelessness.
The prestigious national award recognizes the country's best public service journalism each year.
The other finalists for work published or aired in 2022 are CBC Saskatchewan, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and Radio-Canada.
"Pretty amazing company," Eastern Graphic publisher Paul MacNeill tweeted after receiving word of the nomination Wednesday.
The Graphic was nominated for stories resulting from a year-long investigation guided by MacNeill and carried out by journalist Rachel Collier.
"Community media faces challenges like every other legacy media," MacNeill wrote as the series started to roll out in the spring of 2022. "Assigning a reporter to a full-time task is virtually unheard of, but if we stop telling stories that matter because of the economy or a pandemic then we've lost our reason for being."
The Michener citation recognized the work this way: "A tiny news operation took on a huge social issue, and an entire province sat up and took notice."
The same series received nominations for the Canadian Association of Journalists Awards and the Atlantic Journalism Awards this spring.
The other Michener Award nominations were for:
The winner will be announced during an event at Rideau Hall on June 16, with representatives from the nominated newsrooms present.
The holiday season has arrived in Thunder Bay, and that means reduced hours, or closures, for businesses, city offices, and other amenities.
As Toronto’s food scene continues to grow, some in the industry say the pool of professional chefs hasn’t kept up with demand.
Police have charged a truck driver from the Hamilton area in a hit-and-run crash that killed a tow truck operator who had been stopped while helping a driver on the side of Highway 401 outside Woodstock, Ont.
Power has been restored to most of Haines Junction after a problem earlier on Monday at the local generating station.
A 56-year-old man will return to court on Tuesday for a charge of second-degree murder, laid in a case London police have called an act of femicide.
The chairman of the committee leading Newfoundland and Labrador's independent review of the Churchill Falls memorandum of understanding with Quebec is backing the impartiality of his three-man team.
The province has taken a major step toward restarting its onshore natural gas industry.
Allan Legere, serving a life sentence at a maximum security prison in Alberta, has been denied a request for full parole.
Winnipeg’s Granite Curling Club has asked a judge to decide whether the City of Winnipeg can ignore a provincial decision about residential housing slated to rise next to the club.
A Saskatoon woman says she watched her neighbour's police standoff play out in real time on social media.
One person is dead from carbon monoxide poisoning, following an incident Friday at a building in Regina.
A wind storm that caused the cancellation of all daytime ferries between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland stranded passengers on both sides of the Salish Sea, adding challenges for travelers in an already hectic holiday travel week.
Maritime Electric has officially filed plans with the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission for the rotating power outages it says may be necessary this winter to prevent a provincewide blackout.