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26th Annual Western Magazine Awards Winners
Friday June 20, 2008 at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond B.C.
Arts, Culture and Entertainment
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
Escape from Beige, Chris Turner, Avenue
Business
Sponsored by Transcontinental
Squish to Swish, Tyee Bridge, BCBusiness
Fiction
Whale Stories, Theodora Armstrong, Event
Human Experience
Eating Dirt, Charlotte Gill, Vancouver Review
Profile
Sponsored by Reader’s Digest
The Many Larger-Than-Life Lives of Long Lance, Tyee Bridge, Swerve
Public Issues
The Doctor is Out, Marcie Good, Vancouver Magazine
Regular Column or Department
Films, Shirley Goldberg, Humanist Perspectives
Science, Technology and Medicine
Womb Mates, Vanessa Richmond, Vancouver Magazine
Service
The West Goes Green, Charlene Rooke, Western Living
Travel and Leisure
London Calling, Tyee Bridge, Swerve
Art Direction–Article
Sex and the City, Randall Watson, Vancouver Magazine
Art Direction–Cover
Sponsored by Tugboat Media
Sept Oct 07, Susie Brown, elemente magazine
Illustration or Illustration Feature
My Dear, Can We Work Together? Marian Bantjes, Vancouver Review
Photograph–Architectural, Landscape or Still Life
Our Town: Calaway Park, Springbank, James May, Swerve
Photographic Feature or Series
Flight Club, Kate Szatmari, Ion Magazine
Photograph–People and Portraiture
Special Anniversary Issue: Mac Parry Cover, David Fierro, Vancouver Magazine
Gold Award Best Article–Alberta/NWT
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
Gold Award Best Article–Manitoba
Sponsored by Manitoba Ministry of Culture, Heritage, Tourism and Sport
Guberman, Laurie Block, Prairie Fire
Gold Award Best Article–Saskatchewan
Sponsored by Saskatchewan Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport
The Comeback Canid, Dave Quinn, Westworld
Best New Magazine
Sponsored by Masthead
unlimited
Trade Magazine of the Year
Sponsored by Canada Wide Media Limited
Enterprise
Magazine of the Year–AB/NWT
AlbertaViews
Magazine of the Year–BC/YUKON
Sponsored by BC Association of Magazine Publishers
Vancouver Magazine
Magazine of the Year–Manitoba
Sponsored by Manitoba Ministry of Culture, Heritage, Tourism and Sport
Border Crossings
Magazine of the Year–Saskatchewan
Sponsored by Saskatchewan Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport
Blackflash
Magazine of the Year–Western Canada
Vancouver Magazine
Lifetime Achievement Award
Andris Taskans, editor, Prairie Fire
26th Annual Western Magazine Awards Finalists
On Thursday, May 22, 2008, these finalists were announced at the Western Magazine Awards Foundation’s
Finalists Party held at Art Works Gallery in Vancouver. The winners will be announced at our Gala Dinner
& Awards on Friday, June 20, 2008 at the River Rock Casino resort in Richmond.
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 You Will 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
