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Vol. 30, Issue 27, March 26, 2026
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Robert Fife honoured with CJF Lifetime Achievement Award Provided by The Canadian Journalism Foundation he Canadian Journalism Foundation’s (CJF) Lifetime Achievement Award this year goes to Robert Fife in recognition of his decadeslong career exemplifying the highest standards of political reporting, public-interest journalism and newsroom leadership in both print and broadcast. His ongoing work has helped set the national agenda through fearless, rigorous reporting and journalism that has consistently exposed issues of profound national consequence and strengthened the public’s understanding of Canada’s political institutions. “At a time when journalism and democracy are under attack, few journalists have had such a direct impact on Canadian democracy as Robert Fife,” says Lifetime Achievement Award jury member Hamlin Grange, veteran broadcast journalist and Principal Consultant, DiversiPro. “Among other things, his reporting has forced governments to be held accountable. His stories didn’t just inform the public, they changed laws.” Fife will be honoured at the CJF Awards ceremony on June 10 at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto. For tickets, tables and sponsorship opportunities, see contact information below or visit the CJF Awards page. Currently, the Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Globe and Mail, Fife is one of Canada’s most respected political journalists and is known for breaking some of the most consequential political stories in modern Canadian journalism. In Long Term 2019, he revealed that Forecast Prime Minister Justin Thursday Trudeau had pressured High 0 Attorney General Jody Low -7 Wilson-Raybould Friday regarding the prosecution High 2 of SNC-Lavalin, igniting Low -4 the SNC-Lavalin affair that led to her resignation. Saturday
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He has also led extensive reporting on allegations of foreign interference in Canadian politics, including claims that China attempted to influence the 2021 federal election. This coverage helped prompt a public inquiry and garnered Fife the 2024 Sidney Hillman Prize. Earlier in his career, while serving as Ottawa Bureau Chief for CTV, Fife broke the story that Nigel Wright, chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, had given Senator Mike Duffy a $90,000 cheque to repay disputed Senate expenses. This led to greater transparency on how senators spend public money. He also received several awards for an investigation into sanitary conditions at X L Foods, resulting in the transfer of food safety inspections from the department of Agriculture to Chapleau native, Robert Fife Health. “Given the constant Michener-Baxter Award for his decades-long flow of information, it is easy for a parliamentary contribution to public-interest journalism, journalist to go with the flow and stay in the pack,” recognizing his leadership, mentorship and says national affairs columnist and commentator influential reporting across outlets including The Chantal Hébert, a member of the Lifetime Globe and Mail, the National Post and CTV News. Achievement Award jury. “Robert Fife, over his Later this year, he will receive the Hyman Solomon decades in journalism, has led the pack by Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism consistently breaking stories that mattered.” from Public Policy Forum. Fife has won multiple National Newspaper “Robert Fife is incomparable,” says Awards and Canadian Association of Journalists Rosemary Thompson, former Deputy Bureau Chief honours, and is the only journalist in the of CTV’s Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa and Parliamentary Press Gallery to have twice received member of the CJF Lifetime Achievement Award the Charles Lynch Award for outstanding coverage Selection Committee, calling Fife a “uniquely of national affairs. In 2025, he received the Cont’d on P.2
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