35th Webster Awards
2021 Finalists & Winners

EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH REPORTING

The rise of the variants and how to respond

Andrew Nikiforuk

The Tyee

COVID 19; Team Coverage

Keith Baldrey, Richard Zussman, John Hua, Grace Ke, Sophie Lui, Chris Gailus, Marsha Gabriel, Emad Agahi, Jonathan Bartlett

Global BC

Winner

Overdoses, BC’s original health crisis, worsen during COVID pandemic

Lori Culbert

Vancouver Sun & Province

EXCELLENCE IN TECHNOLOGY REPORTING

Hackers had ‘deep’ access to Whistler systems, docs show

Braden Dupuis, Clare Ogilvie

Pique Newsmagazine

Ballard Power Systems

Brent Jang

The Globe and Mail

Winner

‘You Have Zero Privacy’ Says an Internal RCMP Presentation. Inside the Force’s Web Spying Program

Bryan Carney

The Tyee

EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENT REPORTING

Canada is drowning in plastic waste – and recycling won’t save us

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

Canada’s National Observer

Winner

Fossil fuels and the coronavirus

Russ Francis

Focus Magazine

Thriving Together: Salmon, Berries, and People

‘Cúagilákv (Jess Housty)

Hakai Magazine

BEST REPORTING IN A LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH

Asian Women of the Pandemic

Barbara Lu, Judy Gong, Eric Zhang

Fairchild Radio

Winner

Out of province travels in Whistler during the pandemic

Francis Plourde

Radio-Canada

Magazine 26-Pandemic in BC Seniors Care Home

Jocelyn Wong

Fairchild Television

EXCELLENCE IN MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM

Winner

Revive

Serena Renner

UBC Journalism

Portraits of Loss: 100 Lives Felled by an Overdose Crisis

Andrea Woo, Marcus Gee

The Globe and Mail

Unmasking Racism

CBC Vancouver Team

CBC Vancouver

BEST BREAKING NEWS REPORTING PRINT/ONLINE

Lynn Valley Stabbings

Kim Bolan, Scott Brown, David Carrigg, Lori Culbert, Nathan Griffiths, Joanne Lee-Young

Vancouver Sun & Province

MEC: A co-op goes private

Aleksandra Sagan, Catherine McIntyre

The Logic

Winner

Christie Mountain Wildfire grows, destroys home

Chelsea Powrie, Casey Richardson, Colin Dacre, Nich Johansen, Rob Gibson, Jon Manchester, Wayne Moore, Sarita Patel, Laura Brookes

Castanet News

BEST BREAKING NEWS REPORTING RADIO

Winner

Pier Park Fire

Yvette Brend, Drew Kerekes

CBC News Vancouver

New Westminster pier fire

John Copsey, Gord Macdonald, Janet Brown, Emily Lazatin

980 CKNW

YVR Shooting

John Streit, Toby Kerr, Emad Agahi, Jason Gilder, Gord Macdonald

980 CKNW

BEST BREAKING NEWS REPORTING TV / VIDEO

Presented in memory of Keith Bradbury

YVR Shooting

Emad Agahi, Sarah MacDonald, Coleen Christie, Annie Wong, Jordan Armstrong, Brett Ballah, Pat Bell, Chris Allard and Kristen Robinson

Global BC

Winner

Unmarked Graves Discovery

Paul Johnson, Jim Helgason, Catherine Urquhart, Alex Sumner, Darren Twiss

Global BC

Arson Spree – The day three masonic halls were set on fire

David Molko, Regan Hasegawa, Alissa Thibault, Keri Adams, Jason Pires, Herb Ramos, Peter Bremner, Scott Connorton, Justin Borges, Jeannie Avelino, Mi-Jung Lee, Scott Roberts, Nafeesa Karim, Rhonda Fuller, Murray Castonguay, Kim Magi, Philip Sedlacek, Tanya Boguski, Cam Mitchell, Alex Huang, Scott Holman, Allie Miller, Sandra Hermiston, Alyse Kotyk, Kendra Mangione, Andrew Weichel, Rob Bloye, Dylan Adkins, Emily Chew.

CTV News Vancouver

BEST FEATURE/ENTERPRISE REPORTING – PRINT/ONLINE

Winner

WCB’s Opioid Addiction

Kathy Tomlinson

The Globe and Mail

COVID-19 and the impact on elder care in B.C.

Don Urquhart

South Okanagan Times-Chronicle

Anatomy of a Hit

Kim Bolan

The Vancouver Sun

BEST FEATURE/ENTERPRISE REPORTING – RADIO / PODCAST

They & Us

Faith Fundal, Andrew Kurjata, Andrew Glass, Catherine Hansen, Will Howie, Shiral Tobin

CBC Prince George

Access Denied

Cathy Browne, Catherine Rolfsen, Stephen Quinn

The Early Edition – CBC Vancouver

Winner

Gone Boys: Island Crime Season 2

Laura Palmer

Rogers Frequency Network

BEST FEATURE/ENTERPRISE REPORTING – TV / VIDEO

Smugglers Inn

Paul Johnson, Rumina Daya, Darrel Patton

Global BC

Winner

Unmarked Graves: Canada’s Reckoning

Allison Hurst, Ben Miljure, David Molko, Bhinder Sajan, Nafeesa Karim, Mary Cranston, Maria Weisgarber, Alissa Thibault, Scott Hurst, Melanie Nagy, Gary Barndt, Jim Fong, Michelle Scott, Sabrina Gans

CTV News Vancouver

Our Youngest Victims: How BC’s opioid crisis is killing children

April Lawrence

CHEK News

EXCELLENCE IN DIVERSITY + INCLUSION REPORTING

Valley woman makes historic name change for truth and reconciliation

Erin Haluschak

Comox Valley Record

Indian farmers’ protests

Neetu Garcha

Global BC

Winner

Left behind in a pandemic

Christopher Cheung

The Tyee

EXCELLENCE IN LEGAL JOURNALISM

Sponsored by the Law Society of British Columbia

Winner

The Police and City Hall

Dan Fumano

The Vancouver Sun

Sanctioned: Double Criminality

Jason Proctor, Stephen Quinn, Vivian Luk, Natasha Aziz, Theresa Duvall

CBC Vancouver

IHIT Jeopardizes Cases

Rumina Daya

Global BC

BEST COMMUNITY REPORTING

The Last Pin Topples

Dustin Godfrey

Burnaby Now

Rape allegations connected to a popular bar lead to a reckoning for Victoria’s restaurant culture

Tori Marlan, Jimmy Thomson, Brishti Basu

Capital Daily

Winner

Spending spree at the Thompson-Nicola Regional District?

Jessica Wallace

Kamloops This Week

EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS/INDUSTRY/LABOUR/ECONOMICS REPORTING

Endowed by Jean Cormier

Retail Therapy: Local businesses battle the pandemic

Margaret Gallagher

CBC Radio

Vancouver’s housing permitting crisis

Frances Bula

The Globe and Mail

Winner

The Corporate Push into B.C.’s Primary Care System: A Tyee Series

Andrew MacLeod

The Tyee

COMMENTATOR OF THE YEAR – CITY MIKE AWARD

Presented in memory of Linda Webster

Gary Mason

The Globe and Mail

Winner

Les Leyne

Victoria Times Colonist

Christopher Foulds

Kamloops This Week