It is with sadness that we share the news of the passing of Don Johnston – the long-time news director of CFRB radio in Toronto and founding member of the Gordon Sinclair Foundation. Don died on Monday, in his 92nd year. As a longstanding colleague and close friend of the controversial Gordon Sinclair, Johnston was […]
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Don Johnston – the long-time news director of CFRB and founding member of the Gordon Sinclair Foundation – is turning 90. As a longstanding colleague and close friend of the controversial broadcaster, Johnston was a driving force in the movement to raise funds and set up a charitable foundation in Gordon Sinclair’s honour after the […]
Read MoreCalgary-based multimedia journalist will travel to the former Eastern Bloc to cover the impact of ongoing political changes
Read MoreJournalist Katrina Clarke will use the Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter Bursary to investigate the failures and successes of Indigenous education across Atlantic Canada and abroad, providing an international context to Canada’s efforts at truth and reconciliation.
Read MoreWith multiple dispatches to the CBC, Toronto Star and Thomson-Reuters Foundation, winner of the 2017 bursary details the impact of a White House policy reversal on the inhabitants of the distant island of Madagascar
Read MoreJournalist Annie Burns-Pieper will use the Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter Bursary to travel to Madagascar to report on US President Donald Trump’s reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule — which bans foreign aid to groups that perform or promote abortion — and how it has impacted global health programs, specifically family planning and women’s health services.
Read MoreARSAL, LEBANON—A frigid wind rips across the mountaintop as Col. Ahmed Assir, a commander in the Lebanese Army’s Ninth Infantry Brigade, peers into the valley below. The town of Arsal lies at the bottom, inside an army cordon set up two years ago after a brief Daesh takeover.
Read MoreTORONTO (June 16, 2016) – Journalist Corbett Hancey will use the Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter Bursary to travel to Lebanon to explore how the country is coping with the influx of refugees and the pressures of the Syrian civil war. The Gordon Sinclair Foundation awarded the bursary today at its annual meeting, in Toronto. Hancey, […]
Read MoreThe board of directors of the Gordon Sinclair Foundation meets in Toronto on Thursday, June 16 for the foundation’s annual general meeting and to announce this year’s winner of the Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter Bursary. The Roving Reporter Bursary was created in memory of Gordon Sinclair, who made his name gallivanting around the world for […]
Read MoreAnother great piece of work by 2015 Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter bursary winner Jodie Martinson has been broadcast on the CBC-Radio program Tapestry. Jodie used the bursary to follow singer Khari McClelland’s journey in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Detroit as he sought music that could help him understand more about the lives of escaped slaves, such […]
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