Global News And CH News Win National Radio-Television News Directors Awards

• Bert Cannings Award - Best Newscast for the November 15 th ‘News Hour’ broadcast and ongoing coverage of last winter’s West Coast storm. Viewers from all over B.C. tuned in to the ‘News Hour’ to watch the damage caused by 100 km winds that pounded the coast. The stories told of evacuations, power outages, collapsed structures and flood threats.
  
  
• Charlie Edwards Award - Best Spot News for “Queen of the North Sinks,” breaking coverage of the BC Ferry sinking in March 2006 when the Global BC news team mobilized a team of seven reporters to cover the amazing tale of survival, heroism and mystery.
  
  
• Lifetime Achievement Award - Global BC long-time camera operator Gary Hanney also received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding accomplishments and excellence throughout his 40-year career. He has covered many of B.C.’s biggest stories including Clifford Olson, the Johnson-Bentley murders, escapes from Ken Prison, a major plane crash at Vancouver airport, and every provincial and national election race.

• Dave Rogers Award - Best Long Feature for “Saving Grace: The Harry Lehotsky Story,” a half-hour documentary chronicling the life and sudden death of a beloved reverend and community leader in Winnipeg. Reverend Lehotsky was diagnosed with non-operative terminal cancer and died after a difficult six month struggle.

• Dave Rogers Award - Best Short Feature for “From the Okanagan to Ethiopia,” part of a series documenting the challenges facing a group of Okanagan medical volunteers who traveled to Ethiopia and the enormous difference they made in people’s lives. CHBC cameraman Colin Macdonald accompanied the group to tell the stories of the hardships people in Ethiopia faced through the eyes of the volunteers.