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26th Annual Western Magazine Awards
The winners of the 26th Annual Western Magazine Awards were announced at our Gala Dinner &
Awards on Friday, June 20, 2008 at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond. Winners are notated with an
asterisk.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Andris Taskans, editor, Prairie Fire
Written categories
Arts, Culture, and Entertainment
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
Bruce Almighty, Chris Cannon, Vancouver Magazine
*Escape from Beige, Chris Turner, Avenue
I’ve Seen Fire. Rain, Chris Bowerman, Swerve
Joni Mitchell, Shelley Youngblut, Shelley Arnusch and Jacquie Moore, Swerve
Keeping It Weird, Todd Babiak, AlbertaViews
Business
Sponsored by Transcontinental
Hunting Brian Hunter, Anthony A. Davis, Alberta Venture
Into Uncharted Waters, Aaron Spitzer, Up Here
Rockin’ Robin Hood, Bill Reynolds, Swerve
*Squish to Swish, Tyee Bridge, BCBusiness
Stocks to Watch, Ben Parfitt, BCBusiness
Fiction
Pruning Martin, Kari Lund-Teigen, AlbertaViews
Some Light Down, S. Kennedy Sobol, Prism International
Summit, Annabel Lyon, Vancouver Review
Western Taxidermy, Barb Howard, AlbertaViews
*Whale Stories, Theodora Armstrong, Event
Human Experience
Bukowski my Boilermaker, Michael Hall, Sub-Terrain
*Eating Dirt, Charlotte Gill, Vancouver Review
Guberman, Laurie Block, Prairie Fire
The Ballad of Big and Small, John Vigna, Grain Magazine
Worlds of Delight, Trevor Herriot, Prism International
Profile
Sponsored by Reader's Digest
Day in your Life, Gary Mason, BCBusiness
Learning His Religion, Jeremy Klaszus, Swerve
Mother Nature, Timothy Taylor, Vancouver Magazine
*The Many Larger-Than-Life Lives of Long Lance, Tyee Bridge, Swerve
The Nature of David Suzuki, Chris Cannon, Vancouver Magazine
Public Issues
A Delicate Hope, Jeff Gailus, Swerve
Malaria as a Weapon of War, Robert Semeniuk, Briarpatch
Peter’s Principles, Sheila Pratt, AlbertaViews
*The Doctor is Out, Marcie Good, Vancouver Magazine
The Great Game, Christopher Grabowski and Stephen Osborne, Geist
Regular Column or Department
*Films, Shirley Goldberg, Humanist Perspectives
North of Unreal, Betsy Trumpener, Northword Magazine
Swerve Eats, Chris Turner, Swerve
The Galvanic Twitch: Frankenstein Machines, Meeka Walsh, Border Crossings
Voices, David Albahari, Geist
Science, Technology and Medicine
A Day in the Life of Eureka, Jessa Sinclair, Up Here
Heart Beats, Kim Heinrich Gray, Swerve
Sexual Healing, Danielle Egan, Vancouver Magazine
The Sound and the Fury, John Vaillant, Vancouver Magazine
*Womb Mates, Vanessa Richmond, Vancouver Magazine
Service
100 Best Buys, Rebecca Philps, Vancouver Magazine
Fresh Dishes, Pamela Cuthbert, up! magazine
Snow School, Larry Pynn, British Columbia Magazine
The 18th Annual Restaurant Awards, Jamie Maw and the Editors, Vancouver Magazine
The Smart Hiring Guide, Shannon Sutherland, Alberta Venture
*The West Goes Green, Charlene Rooke, Western Living
Travel and Leisure
A Girl’s Guide to Getting Hitched in Vegas, Chloe Collins, up! magazine
Finding our way in Spatsizi, J. B. MacKinnon, British Columbia Magazine
In Search of Aloha, Andrew Findlay, up! magazine
*London Calling, Tyee Bridge, Swerve
Rink on the Roof of the World, Andrew Findlay, Westworld
Visual Categories
Art Direction–Article
Coddled Kids, Danae Thompson, Swerve
Grub Slingers, Catherine Mullaly, BCBusiness
*Sex and the City, Randall Watson, Vancouver Magazine
State of the Arts, Catherine Mullaly, BCBusiness
The Doctor is Out, Randall Watson, Vancouver Magazine
The Inventors, Catherine Mullaly, BCBusiness
Art Direction–Cover
Sponsored by Tugboat Media
Cheap Eats, Randall Watson, Vancouver Magazine
Color 5.1, Aurel Schmidt, Dylan Doubt, Sandro Grison, Color magazine
Issue 65, Stephen Osborne,Geist
*Sept Oct 07, Susie Brown, elemente magazine
unlimited: the balance issue, Malcolm Brown, unlimited
Illustration or Illustration Feature
A Newer Wilderness, Joy Ang, AlbertaViews
Bukowski My Boilermaker, Byron Eggenschwiler, Sub-Terrain
Death of a Salesman, Ryan Snook, Vancouver Magazine
Los Compadres, Julie McLaughlin, Swerve
*My Dear, Can We Work Together? Marian Bantjes, Vancouver Review
Untitled, Matthew Booth and Jonah Gray, Pyramid Power
Photograph–Architectural, Landscape or Still Life
Cheap Eats Cover, Clinton Hussey, Vancouver Magazine
Oilsands Review, Joey Podlubny, Oilsands Review
*Our Town: Calaway Park, Springbank, James May, Swerve
Unbridled Energy: Dog in the City, Ted Rhodes, Discovering Alberta
Van Isle’s Golden Globes, Cory Dawson, Cottage
Photographic Feature or Series
Appropriate Buddha, Lee Henderson, BlackFlash
Casualties of War, Gregory Crow, Vancouver Magazine
*Flight Club, Kate Szatmari, Ion Magazine
Shoot To Thrill: Marching Into Three Days Of The Unknown, Dylan Doubt, Ian Snow, Geoff Clofford, Andrew Norton, Color magazine
Terror on Bugaboo Spire, David R. Gluns, British ColumbiaMagazine
The Night Fantastic, Dermot Cleary, Avenue
They Took Things Into Their Own Hands, Gordon Nicholas, Color magazine
Photograph–People and Portraiture
Close Call/Veda Hille, Mark Mushet, Vancouver Review
Mac’s World, David Fierro, Vancouver Magazine
Meteoric Image, Christian Fleury, Beaver
*Special Anniversary Issue: Mac Parry Cover, David Fierro, Vancouver Magazine
Super Sleuth, Brian Howell, Vancouver Magazine
Gold categories
Gold Award Best Article–Alberta/NWT
Doing the Dirty Work, Kyle G. Brown, AlbertaViews
I’ve Seen Fire. Rain, Chris Bowerman, Swerve
Rockin’ Robin Hood, Bill Reynolds, Swerve
The Most Famous Indian in the World, Tyee Bridge, Swerve
*What Will You Consume When There is No Cure, Chris Koentges, Swerve
Gold Award Best Article–BC/Yukon
Sponsored by BC Ministry of Tourism, Sport & the Arts
*Bench Strength, Sean Rossiter, Vancouver Magazine
Looking for Mr. Bing, Terry Glavin, Vancouver Review
Silence of the Pigs, Bonnie Bowman, Vancouver Review
Terror on Bugaboo Spire, Daniel Wood, British Columbia Magazine
The Doctor is Out, Marcie Good, Vancouver Magazine
Gold Award Best Article–Manitoba
Sponsored by Manitoba Ministry of Culture, Heritage, Tourism and Sport
An Expo 67 Kaleidoscope, Christopher Moore, Beaver
Freedom Bound, Lawrence Hill, Beaver
*Guberman, Laurie Block, Prairie Fire
Karoshi, James Scoles, Prairie Fire
The Guru of New Jersey, Larry Frolick, Geez
Gold Award Best Article–Saskatchewan
Sponsored by Saskatchewan Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport
From Ciudad Juarez to Fort Qu’Appelle, Brett Bradshaw, Briarpatch
From Treeline to Tundra, Rebecca Grambo, Prairies North
*The Comeback Canid, Dave Quinn, Westworld
Best magazine categories
New Magazine
Sponsored by Masthead
Douglas
elemente magazine
Granville
Pyramid Power
*unlimited
Trade Magazine of the Year
Sponsored by Canada Wide Media Limited
AWARD
CGA Magazine
*Enterprise
Just for Canadian Doctors
The Review (Imperial Oil)
Magazine of the Year–AB/NWT
Alberta Venture
*AlbertaViews
elemente magazine
Swerve
Up Here
Magazine of the Year–BC/YK
Sponsored by BC Association of Magazine Publishers
BCBusiness
British Columbia Magazine
Color magazine
Malahat Review
Prism International
*Vancouver Magazine
Magazine of the Year–Manitoba
Sponsored by Manitoba Ministry of Culture, Heritage, Tourism and Sport
Beaver
*Border Crossings
Geez
Prairie Fire
Magazine of the Year–Saskatchewan
Sponsored by Saskatchewan Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport
Acreage Life
*Blackflash
Briarpatch
Grain Magazine
Prairies North
Magazine of the Year–Western Canada
*Vancouver Magazine
