AWARDS

  • 2004, Jack Webster Awards – (Law Society of BC Award for excellence in Legal Writing) – Finalist in Excellence in Legal Writing sponsored by the Law Society of British Columbia, for coverage of the trial of Vancouver youths Atif Rafay and his friend Sebastian Burns. The pair killed the Rafays and their autistic daughter with baseball bats in bizarre plot to cash in on life insurance money. The family had moved to Bellevue, near Seattle from Vancouver.
  • 2003, Jack Webster Awards – Finalist in the Webster Awards along with other colleagues for news reporting on the sinking of a fishing vessel and the consequent loss of life.
  • 2001, Jack Webster Awards (Law Society of BC Award For Excellence in Legal Writing) – First place award for extensive work, including trial coverage in Los Angeles, on “Millennium Bomber” Ahmed Ressam, a refugee in Canada who planned to blow up Los Angeles International Airport with a pair of suitcase bombs.
  • 1995  Jack Webster Awards Finalist, along with two colleagues, for a series of investigative news stories on the murder of a family living in Seattle. (Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns case).
  • 1993, National Newspaper Awards Finalist in the special projects category for a 26-page feature on the psychology, activities, recidivism, and victimization patterns of sexual predators. Series written with a colleague after weeks of research, interviews with sex offenders in jails in the US and Canada, treatment providers, and victims.
  • 1990, Aga Khan Council For BC Winner, award for high achievements in the category of “professional development.”
  • 1987, BC Newspaper Awards Second place in news category for a series of news articles.
  • 1986, MacMillan Bloedel First place in Hard News category for extensive and exclusive work on the Air India Bombing. MacMillan Bloedel was the only major journalism contest in B.C. at the time.
  • 1979, MacMillan Bloedel Second Award for a series on juvenile crime while working for The Columbian.