CBC Saskatchewan took home three awards and played a part in a fourth at the national Radio Television and Digital News Association (RTDNA) Awards in Toronto on Saturday.
Reporter Kendall Latimer and videographer Don Somers won the best feature news (digital) award for their story about the closing of Robertson Trading in La Ronge, Sask.
The fur-trading post and general store operated in the northern community, 377 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, for 56 years before closing its doors late last year.
Somers and reporter Jason Warick won the multi-platform enterprise award for a story following Jeanette Lodoen, who granted them access to her life in the months leading to her medically assisted death.
On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, one of Canada’s most discriminatory immigration policies, siblings reunited in Regina, where they grew up, to learn more about their parents’ immigration to Canada — and ended up unearthing some long-buried secrets.
An icon’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being called into question by family members and an investigation that included genealogical documentation, historical research and personal accounts. Host: Geoff Leo
