The Narwhal, Toronto Star win Michener Award for work on Ontario Greenbelt scandal
- The Narwhal and the Toronto Star won the 2023 Michener Award for their reporting on the Ontario Greenbelt scandal.
- Their investigation led to Ford scrapping the plan to allow development on formerly protected Greenbelt lands, resulting in the resignation of two ministers and two senior staffers.
- Politically connected developers benefited from buying devalued farmland before Premier Doug Ford lifted Greenbelt protection, as revealed by their reporting.
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The Narwhal, Toronto Star win Michener Award for work on Ontario Greenbelt scandal
OTTAWA — The Narwhal and the Toronto Star have been named the winners of the 2023 Michener Award for their reporting about Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal. The Michener Awards Foundation says that throughout 2023, the magazine and newspaper revealed how “politically connected developers benefited from buying devalued farmland just before Premier Doug Ford lifted Greenbelt protection […]
Toronto Star, Narwhal win top journalism prize for Greenbelt investigation
The Star and the Narwhal won the Michener Award, Canada’s most prestigious journalism prize, for their probe into the Ontario government’s now-reversed decision to open the Greenbelt to development.

The Narwhal, Toronto Star win Michener Award for work on Ontario Greenbelt scandal
OTTAWA – The Narwhal and the Toronto Star have been named the winners of the 2023 Michener Award for their reporting about Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal. The Michener Awards Foundation says […]
The Narwhal celebrates historic Michener Award win
Uhhh… so… we just won Canada’s most prestigious journalism prize, together with the Toronto Star. We owe it to our members who believed in our work — will you join them to support this crucial, public-interest journalism about the natural world by giving whatever you can?
The Narwhal, Toronto Star win Michener Award for work on Ontario Greenbelt scandal
OTTAWA — The Narwhal and the Toronto Star have been named the winners of the 2023 Michener Award for their reporting about Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal. The Michener Awards Foundation says that throughout 2023, the magazine and newspaper revealed how “politically connected developers benefited from buying devalued farmland just before Premier Doug Ford lifted Greenbelt protection of those lands.” It says their investigation led to Ford “scrapping…
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