2013 Awards Winners
The 2013 CALM Awards were distributed in Edmonton, Alberta on Friday, May 24 at the annual CALM Conference. This year, an increase in the quality and the quanity of the awards made our judges struggle to identify winners, naming several honourable mentions in many categories.
This year’s winners will receive a two-year subscription to Our Times magazine. CALM staff will be in touch with each of the winners to arrange these subscriptions. This gift is a generous donation from Our Times.
If you have any questions about these awards, please email editor@calm.ca. Awards for 2014 (for work undertaken in 2013) will be due mid-April, 2014.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to read about the judges. Vous trouverez l’information de nos juges au fin du page.
1. Ed Finn Award for excellence in writing for print
a) Staff produced
Health Sciences Association of Alberta (HSAA)
b) Volunteer produced
Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Local 88
2. Best photograph
a) Staff produced
UFCW Canada National Office
Honorable Mention:
Public Service Alliance of Canada: Food Safety Protects Canadians
b) Volunteer produced
OPSEU Local 558
3. The Freeperson Award for best cartoon, illustration or infographic.
a) Staff produced
AUPE – Long-Term Care Wages
b) Volunteer produced
OPSEU – Sean O’Flynn
4. The Morden Lazarus Prize (For best editorial, column, or opinion piece that thoughtfully argues labour’s position on an issue.)
b) Volunteer produced
Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals (MAHCP)
a) Staff produced
SEIU-West
5. The Cliff Scotton Prize for a narrative, video, audio or visual that reflects history, traditions and culture of the labour movement. Submit hard copy or URL. Include the creator’s name.
Winner in Print: OPSEU Local 558
Winner online: Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
6. The Breaking Barriers Award (For a communications initiative that enhances member participation and access and overcomes discrimination.)
UFCW Canada National Office
and
UFCW Local 1000A
Honourable Mention
OECTA, “Reach every student – know their story.”
7. Best campaign – can be produced by an ad agency – that exposes an anti-union or anti-social practice
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
8. The Katie FitzRandolph Award for best overall regular print publication (Best combined use of writing, graphics, design, editorial content and judgment.)
a) Staff produced
Hospital Employees Union (HEU)
b) Volunteer produced
OPSEU Local 558
9. Excellence in print layout and design in regular print publication (For imaginative and effective use of graphics, cartoons, photography, typography and layout.)
a) Staff produced
TIE
Vanessa Bjerreskov, Alberta Union of Provincial Employees newsletter
AND
Carol Taverner, ACTRA magazine
b) Volunteer produced
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
10. Rosemarie Bahr Award for an outstanding book (For best use of writing and design for a “one-off” bound publication of at least 32 pages)
OPSEU
11. Best short video, made for TV broadcast or online distribution
COPE 378
12. Best narrative video, or video series documentary
OECTA – On thin ice
13. Best audio production: radio ad, podcast
AUPE – Hardisty
14. Best hard copy promotional material (posters, brochures, print ads, buttons, Frisbees etc).
a) Staff produced
CUPE 41, Alberta
b) Volunteer produced
CAW 2002
15. Dennis McGann Stroke-of-Genius Award (Given for the most unusual, innovative, novel communications project.)
Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
16. Best poster
a) Staff produced
Ontario Nurses Association
17. Best website content
a) Staff produced
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
Honourable Mention
Public Service Alliance of Canada
b) Volunteer produced
18. Best website design
a) Staff produced
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
Honourable Mention
Manitoba Government Employees Union
19. Best use of social media by a union
a) Staff produced
Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario
Honourable Mention
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
b) Volunteer produced
United Nurses of Alberta
The CALM Awards are judged each year by experts in one of the four awards fields: website, electronic, graphics and print media.
This year’s judges are:
Online | Derek Hogue – Amphibian Design – http://amphibian.info/
For a little over a decade, Derek Hogue has been designing and developing websites for radical publishers, artists and musicians, and non-profit advocacy organizations across Canada and beyond as Amphibian Design. Working out of the often-frozen flatlands of Winnipeg, MB, his client roster includes Briarpatch magazine, Canadian Dimension magazine, Arbeiter Ring Publishing, University of Manitoba Press, AK Press, John K. Samson, and Propagandhi, among others. He also embarrasses himself while attempting to intelligently discuss politics, science, and culture on the Escape Velocity Radio podcast.
Electronic | Aylwin Lo – http://www.aylwinlo.ca
Aylwin Lo is a digital media producer, designer and developer in Toronto. He is currently producing a forthcoming videogame and interactive rock opera from the critically-acclaimed interdisciplinary art collective, YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, who recently completed the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) Media Lab’s ideaBOOST creative business accelerator. He is also an associate producer on the NFB’s interactive documentaries accompanying the feature films Herman’s House and Home Again.In recent years, he has pushed the frontiers of emerging communications tools, leading development on an EEG-controlled 3D adventure at CFC Media Lab and designing and implementing user interfaces for large-scale touch screens and depth cameras.For over ten years, he has provided design, development and strategy services to labour, environmental, and political organizations at the local, provincial, and national levels. He played an instrumental part in the visual renewal of Canada’s NDP in the years immediately following the selection of Jack Layton as Leader. A passionate advocate for the rights of migrant farmworkers, Aylwin has completed Frontier College’s Labourer-Teacher program, Student Action with Farmworkers’ Into the Fields internship, and written about his experiences as an undercover undocumented migrant farmworker for Rabble.ca.Aylwin holds an Honours Bachelor of Math in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Waterloo and a Diploma in Digital Media Arts from Seneca College.
Graphics | Sam Bradd – Drawing Change – www.sambradd.com
Sam Bradd’s illustrations and graphic recordings have supported the work of many progressive organizations. His work is connected by a vision of Drawing Change: visuals strengthen social movements. As an artist and trained facilitator, his unique background helps him listen for stories and channel them into images. His communication skills are honed by 15 years’ experience with non-profits, unions, and community groups. He’s active with various grassroots projects including the Graphic History Collective and publications for social change. Unionized member of the CEP Freelancers’ Union, he lives in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. Contact: sambradd.com.
Print | Lorraine Endicott – Editor, Our Times – www.ourtimes.ca
Lorraine Endicott is the Managing Editor of Our Times, the bi-monthly Canadian labour magazine about workers’ rights and social justice. Lorraine honed her skills as an editor working on union and riding association newspapers out of Sudbury, Ontario. She has worked at Our Times for more than 25 years, learning the magazine business from the ground up. Now a highly skilled and experienced editor, deeply respected by the labour media community, she is sought out as an expert in labour journalism, has been a guest speaker for the Canadian Association of Labour Media, and a judge for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union’s Newsletter Awards competition. She is passionate about helping to promote workers’ rights and social justice, through education and activism. Our Times is the medium, justice is the message. Lorraine is also a photographer, an emerging visual artist.