The Globe and Mail nominated for two Michener Awards

The Globe and Mail has received two Michener nominations for investigative work into the high prices a private nursing company charged governments in New Brunswick and Newfoundland and for exclusive reporting on a listeria outbreak that killed three people and injured many more.The Michener Award is given annually for outstanding reporting that prompts positive change for the public good. It is widely considered the top prize in Canadian journalism. Five finalists were named Tuesday and one will be chosen as the winner at a ceremony next month.In the spring of 2023, an Ontario opposition politician told the legislature that a whistle-blower had approached her office to say that Canadian Health Labs, or CHL, had been hiring nurses away from Ontario’s hospitals while raking in huge profits by offering their services elsewhere in Canada.