2008 Cartooning and Photography Winners
Editorial Cartoon Winner
Editorial Cartoonist : Cameron Cardow
Affiliation: Ottawa Citizen
Description: Cameron Cardow captured the essence of the Liberals’ internal problems nicely when Stéphane Dion is made to walk the plank of a sunken Liberal ship. Another depicted a Canadian’s fascination with the U.S. election despite Harper trying to distract with a song-and-dance routine. And a third showed former President Bush welcoming Barack Obama to the Oval Office. Cardow is a previous winner of a National Newspaper Award and a six-time nominee.
Feature Photography
Affiliation: Lethbridge Herald
Description: An nearly full moon rises behind bride Kailey Wilson near Indian Battle Park in Lethbridge, Alberta, while her mother Maurene helps her prepare for a photo session with photographer Trevor Thomas in December 2008. Photo by: Ian Martens / Lethbridge Herald
News Feature Photography
Photographer: Lucas Oleniuk
Affiliation: Toronto Star
Description: A young female student sits in the yard of the Central Primary School in the Hagadera refugee camp while morning prayers are played over a loudspeaker. Most of the 230,000 refugees fled to the 17-year-old refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya from neighbouring Somalia. Photo by: Lucas Oleniuk/Toronto Star
Sports Photography
Photographer: Derek Ruttan
Affiliation: London Free Press
Description: The ball pops of out the hands of St. Joseph’s Ram Peter Kavcic while being tackled by East Elgin Eagle Cale Sprague during the during the fourth quarter of the senior high school championship game in London, November 6, 2008. The Rams let the championship slip through their fingers as the visiting Eagles took the title by a score of 45-10. Photo by: Derek Ruttan/London Free Press
Spot News Photography
Photographer: Dave Abel
Affiliation: Toronto Sun
Description: An off duty police officer (in red shirt) wrestles with robbery suspect after a daylight bank robbery attempt at a bank in Scarborough, Ontario on February 26th, 2008. Dave Abel/Toronto Sun
