Awards


2023

National Magazine Awards

Gold

Silver

  • Illustration (incl. Spot & Photo Illustration) / Illustrations: “What Tourette’s Taught Me” by Julien Posture (Contributor: Paul Kim, art director)
  • Personal Journalism / Journalisme personnel: “Giant Mine’s Toxic Legacy” Eva Holland (Contributors: Carmine Starnino, handling editor; Leila El Shannawy, fact checker)

Digital Publishing Awards

Gold

2022

Canadian Online Publishing Awards

Gold

  • Best Multicultural Story (Consumer): “Objectivity Is a Privilege Afforded to White Journalists” by Pacinthe Mattar (Handling Editor: Samia Madwar, Fact Checker: Nicole Schmidt, Illustrator: Natalie Vineberg)
  • Best Virtual Event (Consumer): Poetry for the Moment by Angela Misri, Sheena Rossiter, and Aimee Louw

Canadian Hillman Prize for Journalism

Canadian Association of Journalists

Mindset Award for Reporting on the Mental Heath

Digital Publishing Awards

Gold

National Magazine Awards

Gold

Silver

RNAO Media Awards

  • Best in-depth feature or series: Multiple winners (2022): Investigative Journalism Bureau and Toronto Star, 2022 Editorial Fellow Mashal Butt

2021

National Magazine Awards

Gold

Silver

Digital Publishing Awards

Gold

2020

National Magazine Awards

Gold

Silver

Honourable Mention

Digital Publishing Awards

Gold

Silver

Honourable Mention

  • General Excellence

Canadian Online Publishing Awards

Silver


2019

Digital Publishing Awards

Winner

  • Best Digital Editorial Package: Sex Ed Beyond The Classroom The Walrus

2017

Canadian Magazine Awards

Winner

  • Best General Interest Magazine: The Walrus

2016

National Magazine Awards

Gold

Silver

Honourable Mention


2015

National Magazine Awards

Gold

Silver

Honourable Mention


2014

National Magazine Awards

Gold

  • Best Single Issue: Tenth Anniversary Issue; John Macfarlane, editor; Brian Morgan, art director; contributors: Kyle Carsten Wyatt, Sasha Chapman, Rachel Giese, Amy Macfarlane, Paul Kim, Meredith Holigroski, Matthew McKinnon, Nick Mount, Michael Lista, Pamela Capraru
  • Words & Pictures: “Water”; Edward Burtynsky, Brian Morgan, John Macfarlane, Kyle Carsten Wyatt, Sasha Chapman, Paul Kim, David Macfarlane
  • One of a Kind: “The Marineland Dreamland” by Craig Davidson
  • Politics & Public Interest: “The Avenger” by Lisa Fitterman
  • Society: “The Fix” by Dan Werb
  • Travel: “Big Mac” by Taras Grescoe
  • Magazine Website Design: thewalrus.ca; Matthew McKinnon, online editor and web designer; John Piasetzki, web developer

Silver

  • Health & Medicine: “A Feverish Debate” by Alison Motluk
  • Personal Journalism: “The Meaning of White” by Emily Urquhart
  • Illustration:”Hot Wired” by Jillian Tamaki
  • Photojournalism & Photo Essay:”On the Edge of North America” by Scott Conarroe
  • Portrait Photography: “Inside Joke” by Christopher Wahl

Honourable Mention

  • Best Editorial Package—Web: “The New Normal” by Matthew McKinnon, Brian Morgan, Rachel Giese, Natasha Negrea, Smithsonian Channel, Chris Berube, Marcel Ramagnano, and Lily Ames
  • Arts and Entertainment: “Gossip Girl” by Sarah Selecky
  • Business: “Pension Envy” by John Lorinc
  • Essays: “The Accidental Activist” by Mark Jaccard; “Born in the Burbs” by Ron Graham; “Repairing the House” by Andrew Coyne
  • Health and Medicine: “Critical Mass” by Katherine Ashenburg; “The New Normal” by Rachel Giese; “A Feverish Debate” by Alison Motluk, “The Walking Cure” by Dan Rubinstein
  • Investigative Reporting: “Trials and Error” by Julian Sher
  • Poetry: “Waves” by Richard Greene
  • Politics and Public Interest: “Her Way” by Katherine Ashenburg; “The Avenger” by Lisa Fitterman; “Prime Minister in Waiting” by Charlotte Gray
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “Flight of the Bumblebee” by Sasha Chapman
  • Sports and Recreation: “The Game Not Played” by Richard Poplak
  • Art Direction for an Entire Issue: Tenth Anniversary Issue by Brian Morgan
  • Creative Photography: “Summer Reading” by Will Vincent
  • Spot Illustration: “Miscellany” by Ryan Heshka; “Slaying Dragons” by Graham Roumieu

2013

National Magazine Awards

Gold

  • Illustration: “Apocalypse Soon” by Sam Weber
  • One of a Kind: “What Would Tommy Douglas Think?” by Tom Jokinen
  • Society: “Fade to Light” by Dave Cameron
  • Travel: “On Tipping in Cuba” by Chris Turner

Silver

  • Arts and Entertainment: “After Midnight” by Stephanie Nolen
  • Words and Pictures “Ringmastera” by Sean Michaels

Honourable Mention

  • Arts and Entertainment: “A Humble Architect” by Witold Rybczynski
  • Fiction: “Flesh and Numbers” by Stephen Marche
  • Health and Medicine: “The Errors of Their Ways” by Rachel Giese
  • Health and Medicine: “Fade to Light” by Dave Cameron
  • Personal Journalism: “The Missing Piece” by Terence Byrnes
  • Politics and Public Interest: “Civil Warrior” by Michael Harris
  • Profiles: “His One Demand” by Mark Leiren-Young
  • Science, Technology and the Environment: “The Race against Time” by Alex Hutchinson
  • Society: “Manufacturing Taste” by Sasha Chapman
  • Portrait Photography: “After Midnight” by Jaime Hogge
  • Illustration “War Games” by Barry Blitt
  • Spot Illustration: “Miscellany” by Kelsey Heinrichs

2012

National Magazine Awards

Gold

  • Best Digital Design: walrusmagazine.com by Matthew McKinnon, Heather Cleland, Dave Grant, Lindsay Lafreniere, and David Rusak
  • Illustration: “Meet You at the Door” by Selena Wong
  • Investigative Reporting: “A Political Meltdown” by Alison Motluk
  • One of a Kind: “Adrift on the Nile” by Paul Wilson
  • Profiles: “Madam Premier” by Lisa Gregoire
  • Society: “The Long Goodbye” by Katherine Ashenburg

Silver

  • Essays: “The New Solitudes” by Erna Paris
  • One of a Kind: “The Archivist” by Paul Wilson
  • Photojournalism and Photo Essay: “Amazon of the North” by Eamon Mac Mahon
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “A Rock and a Hard Place” by Chris Wood
  • Society: “The Farms Are Not All Right” by Chris Turner
  • Words and Pictures: “Portraits of the War” by Joanne Tod, Brian Morgan, and Amy Macfarlane

Honourable Mention

  • Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article: “The Meaning of Hockey” by Brian Morgan
  • Art Direction for an Entire Issue: November 2011 by Brian Morgan
  • Arts and Entertainment: “Adventures of a Supernumerary” by Tom Jokinen
  • Arts and Entertainment: “Modern Inconveniences” by Adele Weder
  • Best Short Feature: “The Stag” by Deirdre Dodds
  • Best Short Feature: “As the Crow Flies” by Lisa Gregoire
  • Essays: “The Morgentaler Effect” by Wayne Sumner
  • Fiction: “Meet You at the Door” by Lawrence Hill
  • Fiction: “Noisemakers” by Grace O’Connell
  • Health and Medicine: “Blinded by Science” by Timothy Caulfield
  • Humour: “Housebroken” by Pasha Malla
  • Illustration: “The Farms Are Not All Right” by Scott McCowen
  • Investigative Reporting: “The Only Risk Is Wanting to Stay” by Arno Kopecky
  • Magazine Covers: The Future of Food by Brian Morgan
  • One of a Kind: “Notes from Newfoundland” by Lisa Moore
  • Personal Journalism: “Adventures of a Supernumerary” by Tom Jokinen
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “Climate Controlled” by John Lorinc
  • Society: “Arrival of the Fittest” by Rachel Giese
  • Sports and Recreation: “The Pain Principle” by Richard Poplak
  • Spot Illustration: “Supersized” by Raymond Biesinger

Canadian Online Publishing Awards

Gold, Consumer Magazine

  • Best Companion Website: walrusmagazine.com

Silver, Consumer Magazine

  • Best Web Design: walrusmagazine.com by Matthew McKinnon

2011

National Magazine Awards

Gold

  • Arts and Entertainment: “My Dad, the Movie, and Me” by Noah Richler
  • Best Digital Design: walrusmagazine.com by Matthew McKinnon
  • Best New Creative Talent: “Last Stand in Kandahar” by Matthieu Aikins
  • Essays: “A 10 Percent World” by J.B. MacKinnon
  • Photojournalism and Photo Essay: “Dark Element” by Don Weber
  • Politics and Public Interest: “Life on the Instalment Plan” by Marian Botsford Fraser

Silver

  • Best Short Feature: “Aftershock” by Chris Jones
  • Humour: “The Air Strip” by Pasha Malla
  • Investigative Reporting: “The Human Egg Trade” by Alison Motluk
  • One of a Kind: “A Tale of Two Cities” by Gary Stephen Ross

Honourable Mention

  • Arts and Entertainment: “Mister Nice Guy” by Jeet Heer
  • Arts and Entertainment: “What Tom Thomson Saw” by Ross King
  • Best Multi-Media Feature: “Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period” by Stephen Marche, Jared Bland, and Matthew McKinnon
  • Essays: “The Shout Doctrine” by Mark Kingwell
  • Health and Medicine: “The Enemy Inside” by Daniel Baird
  • Health and Medicine: “Approximate Directions to a Burial” by Dave Cameron
  • Health and Medicine: “The Human Egg Trade” by Alison Motluk
  • Illustration: “Quieter Revolutions” by Mathieu Lavoie
  • Illustration: “The Enemy Inside” by Balint Zsako
  • Illustration: “Hard Currency” by Marlena Zuber
  • Investigative Reporting: “Last Stand in Kandahar” by Matthieu Aikins
  • One of a Kind: “Pravda and Other Words for Truth” by Medeine Tribinevicius
  • Personal Journalism: “Approximate Directions to a Burial” by Dave Cameron
  • Personal Journalism: “The Flight Album” by Kaitlin Fontana
  • Personal Journalism: “My Dad, the Movie, and Me” by Noah Richler
  • Politics and Public Interest: “Last Stand in Kandahar” by Matthieu Aikins
  • Politics and Public Interest: “The Stranger Within” by Ron Graham
  • Politics and Public Interest: “The Human Egg Trade” by Alison Motluk
  • Politics and Public Interest: “The Last Great Water Fight” by Chris Wood
  • Profiles: “Dragon Done” by Trevor Cole
  • Profiles: “The Unrepentant Whore” by Michael Harris
  • Profiles: “Big Game Hunter” by Chris Jones
  • Science, Technology and the Environment: “The New Grand Tour” by Chris Turner
  • Sports and Recreation: “Faster, Higher, Sneakier” by Alex Hutchinson
  • Spot Illustration: “The Long Decline” by Neil Doshi

Canadian Online Publishing Awards

Gold, Consumer Magazine

  • Best Companion Website: walrusmagazine.com

Silver, Consumer Magazine

  • Best Use of Social Media: @walrusmagazine

Finalist, Consumer Magazine

  • Best Blog: The Walrus Blog
  • Best Web Design: walrusmagazine.com

Advertising and Design Club of Canada

Gold


2010

National Magazine Awards

Gold

Silver

Honourable Mention

  • Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article: “Alice in Borderland” by Charles Foran
  • Arts and Entertainment: “That Old Flame” by Don Gillmor
  • Arts and Entertainment: “The Secret” by Brett Grainger
  • Best New Magazine Writer: Carol Shaben “Fly at Your Own Risk”
  • Business: “Turning the Page” by Noah Richler
  • Essays: “A Sorry State” by Mitch Miyagawa
  • Health and Medicine: “Global Impositioning Systems” by Alex Hutchinson
  • Health and Medicine: “Zero Sum” by Mary Rogan
  • Humour: “Stephen Harper: A Short Biography” by Andrew Clark
  • Humour: “The Obstecritic” by Pasha Malla
  • Illustration: “The True Sorrows of Calamity Jane” by Selena Wong
  • Magazine Covers: “Please Forgive Us” (December 2009)
  • Personal Journalism: “Walking the Way” by Timothy Taylor
  • Politics and Public Interest: “Off the Rails” by Monte Paulsen
  • Politics and Public Interest: “The Future Has Begun” by Nora Underwood
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “An Inconvenient Talk” by Chris Turner
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “Global Impositioning Systems” by Alex Hutchinson
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “The Age of Breathing Underwater” by Chris Turner
  • Spot Illustration: Extraordinary Canadians” by Graham Roumieu
  • Spot Illustration: “Schematic Diagrams for Proposed Objects” by Marc Bell
  • Spot Illustration: “Spiritual Citizenship” by Jason Logan

Canadian Online Publishing Awards

Finalist

  • Best Article: “Drinking With Men Who Are Not Russell Smith” by Stacey May Fowles
  • Best Blog: The Walrus Blog

2009

National Magazine Awards

Gold

  • Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article: “Part One: A Legend is Born” by Miles Collyer, Antonio De Luca, and Bree Seeley
  • Humour: “A Liar’s Life” by Bruce McCall
  • Society: “Not So Down” by Peter Valing
  • Words and Pictures: “Our Faces, Our Selves” by Daniel Baird, Antonio De Luca, Matthew McKinnon, Giles Revell, Bree Seeley, and Matt Willey

Silver

  • Essays: “Geared Up” by Bill Reynolds

Honourable Mention

  • Essays: “The Events Leading Up to Sir Norman Foster” by Don Gillmor
  • Essays: “Failure to Fail” by Jay Teitel
  • Health and Medicine: “Minor Keys” by Moira Farr
  • Humour: “Our Marriage: Annual Report 2008” by Kevin Chong
  • Humour: “Death on the Installation Plan” by Jeremy Keehn
  • Humour: “At the Whisky Tasting” by Pasha Malla
  • Investigative Reporting: “Nuclear Reaction” by Kate Harries
  • One of a Kind: “Taking the Cure” by Christopher Shulgan
  • One of a Kind: “The Lynching of Louie Sam” by John Vaillant
  • One of a Kind: “The Incinerator Incident” by Michael Winter
  • Personal Journalism: “Shelter from the Storm” by Don Gillmor
  • Personal Journalism: “All the Way Home” by Wendy Dennis
  • Politics and Public Interest: “Part One: A Legend is Born” by Barry Campbell
  • Politics and Public Interest: “The Business of Saving the Earth” by Chris Wood
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “Fat of the Land” by Brian Payton
  • Society: “Frontier Families” by Matthew Hays
  • Spot Illustration: “Facemasking” by Gary Taxali
  • Spot Illustration: “The Earthship Has Landed” by Sam Weber
  • Still-Life Photography: “Eels on Wheels” by Natasha V
  • Travel: “The Archipelago of Fear” by Charles Montgomery

Utne Independent Press Awards

  • Best Writing

Advertising and Design Club of Canada

Silver

  • Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article: “Our Faces, Our Selves” by Antonio De Luca, Bree Seeley, and Chris Lee (photography by Giles Revell and Matt Willey)

Two merit awards


2008

National Magazine Awards

Gold

  • Arts and Entertainment: “The Mindful Museum” by Adam Gopnik
  • Best New Magazine Writer: “Red Rush” by Patrick White
  • Fiction: “The Dead Are More Visible” by Steven Heighton
  • Illustration: “God’s Slow Death” by Sam Weber
  • Politics and Public Interest: “Once Upon a Country” by Don Gillmor
  • Portrait Photography: “Miss Canadiana” by Robyn Cumming
  • Spot Illustration: “Tank Talk” by Leif Parsons

Silver

  • Magazine Covers: “Lightness of Being (The Queen)” by Antonio De Luca
  • Personal Journalism: “The Autobiography of an Idea” by Rick Salutin
  • Photojournalism and Photo Essay: “The Chinese Dust Bowl” by Benoit Aquin
  • Still-Life Photography: “Digby Neck” by Russell Monk

Honourable Mention

  • Arts and Entertainment: “Unlimited Editions” by Timothy Taylor
  • Best Short Feature: “Forgiveness” by June Callwood
  • Best Short Feature: “The Archetypal Walrus” by John Vaillant
  • Essays: “A House Divided” by Jonathan Garfinkle
  • Essays: “The Autobiography of an Idea” by Rick Salutin
  • Fiction: “The Man on the Island” by Wayne Grady
  • Fiction: “Bob Dylan Goes Tubing” by Marni Jackson
  • Health and Medicine: “Oasis of Hope” by Layne Coleman
  • Humour: “All the Rage” by Andrew Clark
  • Humour: “St. Patrick’s Day” by Andrew Clark
  • Humour: “Veils for Western Women” by Marni Jackson
  • Humour: “The Hidden Mickey Mouse” by John Reardon
  • Illustration: “Cherry Blossom” by Marcos Chin
  • Illustration: “Snail Males” by Zoe Barcza
  • Investigative Reporting: “Rock Bottom” by Noah Richler
  • Investigative Reporting: “Life on Nut Island” by Stephen Williams
  • One of a Kind: “Dominick’s Fish” by RM Vaughan
  • Photojournalism and Photo Essay: “War Stories” by Rita Leistner
  • Politics and Public Interest: “Camels in the Arctic?” by Franklyn Griffiths
  • Politics and Public Interest: “No Refuge” by Andrew Mitrovica
  • Politics and Public Interest: “Rock Bottom” by Noah Richler
  • Travel: “A Pianist in Rwanda” by Deborah Kirshner
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “Breaking D-Wave” by Alex Hutchinson
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “Driven to Distraction” by John Lorinc
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “Red Rush” by Patrick White
  • Spot Illustration: “15 Love Songs” by various illustrators
  • Still-Life Photography: “Award-Winning Books” by Birthe Piontek

Prix Pictet

  • “The Chinese Dust Bowl,” by Benoit Aquin

Advertising and Design Club of Canada

Silver

  • Art direction for a single magazine page or spread: “The Counterpart” by Antonio De Luca, Paul Kim, Chris Lee, and Bree Seeley (illustration by Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau)
  • Illustration: “Parallel Universe” by Graham Roumieu
  • Illustration: “Tunneling Through Time” by Chris Lee
  • Magazine cover: “Lightness of Being (The Queen)” by Antonio De Luca, Paul Kim, Chris Lee, and Bree Seeley (photograph by Chris Levine)

Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs

  • Arthur Kroeger Award for Public Discourse

2007

National Magazine Awards

Magazine of the year

Gold

  • Art direction for a single article: “The Teenage Brain” by Antonio De Luca
  • Essays: “My Life With Tolstoy” by David Gilmour
  • Humour: “Married With Husbands” by Wendy Dennis
  • Personal journalism: My Life With Tolstoy” by David Gilmour
  • Science, technology, and the environment: “Far From Home” by Monte Paulsen
  • Society: “Iran’s Quiet Revolution” by Deborah Campbell

Silver

  • Art Direction for an Entire Issue: “Bird Flu Fever” by Antonio De Luca
  • Business: “Domestic Terroir” by Don Gillmor
  • Essays: “Iran’s Quiet Revolution” by Deborah Campbell
  • Fiction: “The Smell of Smoke” by Peter Behrens
  • Health and Medicine: “Waiting for the Pandemic” by Gwynne Dyer
  • Illustration: “Hijacking History” by Graham Roumieu
  • Magazine Cover: “The Alberta Cash Cow” by Antonio De Luca and Brian Rea
  • Politics and public interest: “Fake Left, Go Right” by James Laxer
  • Service: Health and Family: “The Teenage Brain” by Nora Underwood
  • Society: “Identity Crisis” by Allan Gregg

Honourable Mention

Advertising and Design Club of Canada

Gold

  • Illustration: “God’s Slow Death” by Sam Weber
  • Magazine Cover: “Too Wired To Think” by Antonio De Luca and Ludimar Hermann
  • Photojournalism: “The Last Lumberjacks” by Rita Leistner

Silver

  • Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article: “The Teenage Brain” by Antonio De Luca, Paul Kim, and Frank Weidenfelder
  • Art Direction for a Single Magazine Spread: “Red Rush” by Antonio De Luca, Chris Lee, and Eamon Mac Mahon
  • Conceptual Photography: “A House Half Built” by Liz Cowie
  • Conceptual Photography: “Brighter Lights, Bigger Cities” by Eamon Mac Mahon
  • Illustration: “Snail Males” by Zoe Barcza
  • Illustration: “Kissers (Cherry Blossoms)” by Marcos Chin
  • Illustration: “Her Dog” by Jillian Tamaki
  • Photojournalism: “Separate and Unequal” by Eamon Mac Mahon
  • Portrait Photography: “Miss Canadiana” by Robyn Cummings

Eight merit awards


2006

National Magazine Awards

Gold

  • Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article: “Totally Genius” by Antonio De Luca
  • Arts and Entertainment: “Artful Crimes” by Joshua Knelman
  • Essays: “Is Africa’s Pain Black America’s Burden?” by Lawrence Hill
  • Health and Medicine: “Chasing the Crab” by Bill Cameron
  • Humour: “My Living Media Will” by Marni Jackson
  • Illustration: “Dangerous Liaisons” by Jillian Tamaki
  • Personal Journalism: “Chasing the Crab” by Bill Cameron
  • Politics and Public Interest: “Melting Point” by Chris Wood
  • Portrait Photography: “Jew Funk” by Davida Nemeroff
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “Melting Point” by Chris Wood
  • Service: Health and Family: “Why Psychoanalysis Matters” by Wendy Dennis
  • Spot Illustration: “Revenge of the Small” by Marco Cibola
  • Words and Pictures: “Al Rashad” by Antonio De Luca, Joshua Knelman, and Rita Leistner

Silver

  • Poetry: “Hand Luggage: Calgary, Montreal, and Brazil” by P.K. Page
  • Politics and Public Interest: “The Peace Wager” by Kathy Cook
  • Sports and Recreation: “Foreign Billionaires Bring English Football to World, Agony and Ecstasy to Fans” by Timothy Taylor

Alexander Ross Award for Best New Writer

  • “Danger Signs” by Larry Frolick

Honourable Mention

  • Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article: “Is Africa’s Pain Black America’s Burden?” by Antonio De Luca
  • Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article: “Strange Journey” by Antonio De Luca
  • Arts and Entertainment: “Striking Back at the Empire” by Andrew Clark
  • Business: “Shifting Sands” by Don Gillmor
  • Columns: “In Memory Of,” “Missing Mordecai,” and “What Lies Beneath” by Ken Alexander
  • Essays: “Totally Genius” by Dan Falk
  • Essays: “The Wilderness Within” by Adam Gilders
  • Essays: “America the Beautiful” by Don Gillmor
  • Essays: “The Rising Fall of the American Empire” by James Laxer
  • Fiction: “Catechism” by Wayne Johnston
  • Fiction: “Miss You Already” by Merilyn Simonds
  • Illustration: “Torrential Reign” by Jason Logan
  • Illustration: “Wireless” by Julie Morstad
  • Illustration: “A Decentralized Day” by Leif Parsons
  • Illustration: “Green Party Blues” by Mark Saunders
  • Illustration: “Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Little Guys” by Seth Scriver
  • Illustration: “Arsenal of Illusion” by Balint Zsako
  • Investigative Reporting: “A Gentle Revolution” by Monte Paulsen
  • Photojournalism and Photo Essay: “Al Rashad” by Rita Leistner
  • Politics and Public Interest: “A Tribute Paid to Reason” by Chris Tenove
  • Politics and Public Interest: “Shifting Sands” by Don Gillmor
  • Portrait Photography: “Corporate Cannabis” by Kourosh Keshiri
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “Totally Genius” by Dan Falk
  • Science, Technology, and the Environment: “Danger Signs” by Larry Frolick
  • Spot Illustration: “To Catch a Fish” by David Collier
  • Spot Illustration: “My Tennis Game” by Clayton Hanmer
  • Spot Illustration: “Tusky/Letters” by Jeff Ladouceur
  • Spot Illustration: “The Dictator Debt Catch” by Graham Roumieu
  • Spot Illustration: “Til Decree Do Us Part” by Sam Weber
  • Sports and Recreation: “To Catch a Fish” by John DeMont
  • Travel: “Israel on the Brink” by David Berlin
  • Travel: “Danger Signs” by Larry Frolick
  • Travel: “America the Beautiful” by Don Gillmor
  • Words and Pictures: “The Forest’s Edge” by Ken Alexander, Antonio De Luca, Patrick Lane, and Eamon Mac Mahon

Advertising and Design Club of Canada

Gold

  • Art Direction for an Entire Magazine Issue: “Bird Flu Fever” by Antonio De Luca
  • Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article: “Waiting for the Pandemic” by Antonio De Luca
  • Illustration: “Tank Talk” by Leif Parsons

Silver

  • Magazine Cover: “The Last Days of Suburbia” by Antonio De Luca and Seymour Chwast

Nine merits


2005

National Magazine Awards

Gold

  • Art Direction for a Single Article: “Why Bush Will Win/Why Kerry Will Win” by Antonio De Luca
  • Politics and Public Interest: “The Man Behind Stephen Harper” by Marci McDonald
  • Spot Illustration: “How to Save Democracy” by Leif Parsons
  • Words and Pictures: “Inside a Different Kabul” by Ahmet Sel

Silver

  • Humour: “Samson and Delilah” by Jonathan Goldstein
  • Society: “The Mystery of Marriage” by Wendy Dennis

Honourable Mention

  • Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article: “The Burning Tip of the Spear” by Antonio De Luca
  • Arts and Entertainment: “Unrepentant” by Gare Joyce
  • Columns: “Language: Eloquence Lost,” “Language: Idiom-Proof,” and “Language: MSN Spoken Here” by Charles Foran
  • Essays: “The Mystery of Marriage” by Wendy Dennis
  • Health and Medicine: “Life, at What Price?” by Ivor Shapiro
  • Health and Medicine: “Mapping the Blues” by Mark Witten
  • Illustration: “An Anatomy of Hypochondria” by Balint Zsako
  • Investigative Reporting: “The Black Hole of Guantanamo Bay” by Bill Cameron
  • Investigative Reporting: “The Burning Tip of the Spear” by Rita Leistner
  • Magazine Covers: “What Is Marriage?” by Antonio De Luca
  • Personal Journalism: “The Genocide Problem: ‘Never Again’ All Over Again” by Gerald Caplan
  • Politics and Public Interest: “The Black Hole of Guantanamo Bay” by Bill Cameron
  • Politics and Public Interest: “The Burning Tip of the Spear” by Rita Leistner
  • Portrait “Photographry: The Burning Tip of the Spear” by Rita Leistner
  • Profiles: “The Book of Bob” by Bruce Grierson
  • Society: “Life, at What Price?” by Ivor Shapiro
  • Words and Pictures: “The Burning Tip of the Spear” by Rita Leistner

2004

National Magazine Awards

Gold

  • Arts and Entertainment: The Genius of Django by Deborah Kirshner
  • Investigative Reporting: Blind Trust by Marci McDonald
  • Science and Technology: Is the West Rearming Russia? by Paul Webster

Honourable Mention

  • Essays: Resisting the Veil by Margaret Atwood
  • Essays: Ich Bin Ein Indianer by Adam Gilders
  • Humour: Reader Rage by Douglas Bell
  • Photojournalism and Photo Essay: Blind Trust by Eamon Mac Mahon
  • Politics and Public Interest: Reasonable Doubts by Larry Krotz
  • Politics and Public Interest: Blind Trust by Marci McDonald
  • Still-Life Photography: “One Man’s Trash” by Douglas Coupland
  • Travel: The Genius of Django by Deborah Kirshner

Utne Independent Press Awards