2015 CALM Awards winners
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To view a list of conference attendees, click here.
The Ed Finn Award for the best feature story
ACTRA (staff produced)
OPSEU 558 (volunteer produced)
Best photography
Jarrah Hodge, COPE 378 (staff produced)
Claire Lizotte, United Nurses of Alberta (volunteer produced)
The Freeperson Award for best cartoon, illustration or infographic
Flying High, Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (staff produced)
Honorable mention: CUPE
Jason Alward, Ontario Public Service Employees Union (volunteer produced)
The Morden Lazarus Prize for best editorial, column, or opinion piece that thoughtfully argues labour’s position on an issue
Professional Employees Association (opinion: Provincial government sheds scientists, but needs more)
The Cliff Scotton Prize for a narrative, video, audio or visual that reflects history, traditions and culture of the labour movement
CUPE Learning in Solidarity
The Fighting Oppression Award. (For a communications initiative that raises consciousness and contributes to struggles against racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism and other forms of oppression and discrimination.)
Hospital Employees’ Union: three profiles in Asian Pacific Post
Best Campaign
Public Service Alliance of Canada, Sick Leave For All
Excellence in Layout and Design
Professional Employees Association (staff produced)
Honorable Mention: ACTRA
Honorable Mention: BCIT Faculty and Staff Association
Honorable Mention: UFCW CANADA LOCAL 1000A
OPSEU, In Solidarity. Editor: Virginia Ridley (volunteer produced)
The Katie FitzRandolph Award for best overall regular print publication
Local Voice, COPE 378 (staff produced)
In Solidarity, OPSEU (volunteer produced)
Rosemarie Barr Award Rosemarie Bahr Award for an outstanding book
UFCW Canada, Health & Safety Survival Guide
Best Short Video
SEIU: Below the Line | Walk-a-day in a PSW’s shoes – Sweet $16
Best Documentary
UFCW 401: Real Canadian Super Strike
Best Audio
United Nurses of Alberta: Alberta Labour Day 2014
Best Hardcopy Promotional Material
CUPE Atlantic, Count me In Campaign
Honorable mention: SEIU Healthcare report: Politics Matter! Ask me Why
Dennis McGann Stroke-of-Genius Award
British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, Teachers’ Voices on the Line
Best Poster
TIE (staff produced)
WINNER #1: BCGEU: Choose Children poster
WINNER #2: PSAC. “Idle No More in the struggle for Aboriginal Justice”
Unifor Local 88 (volunteer produced)
Best website design
CUPE Local 3903 (staff produced)
Unifor Local 88 (volunteer produced)
Best website content
SEIU Healthcare (staff produced)
OPSEU Local 558 (volunteer produced)
Best social media
Alberta Federation of Labour

2015 Judges

Online Category- Jennifer Hollett
Jennifer Hollett is an award winning broadcast journalist (CBC, CTV, MuchMusic) and a leader in Canada’s rising generation of community organizers and activists redefining politics. A leading digital expert, Jenn uses social media to increase participation and mobilization in politics and social issues. She studied public policy at Harvard University, obtaining her MPA, and was the digital director on Olivia Chow's mayoral campaign. Jennifer is the NDP candidate in the new Toronto riding of University-Rosedale.

Graphics Category- Sam Bradd
Sam Bradd's work is Drawing Change: visuals that support progressive movements. He's a graphic facilitator and illustrator, and is unionized with Unifor's Freelance Union. As a graphic facilitator, Sam listens and draws to facilitate organizations in doing their best work – dialogue, strategic planning or engagement. His unique background combines 15 years' of facilitation experience and a Master's in Education from UBC. His clients include unions, government, Indigenous organizations, health authorities, universities, non-profits and select private sector clients including Google, Shaw and Lululemon. In the community, Sam draws historical non-fiction comics about labour history with the Graphic History Collective (new book coming in 2016), and was a 2013 judge for the Canadian Association of Labour Media awards. He lives in unceded Coast Salish Territories. Contact him at sambradd.com or on twitter, @sambradd.

Broadcasting Category- Amanda Buckiewicz
Amanda Buckiewicz is an emerging producer/director, and the creative head of Amanda Bux Productions. She cut her teeth as a segment producer at Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet, having produced more than a hundred features and more than 400 interviews for the show, ranging from extreme athletes in Canmore, AB to the world’s hottest wind tunnel in Belgium. She developed and produced the column Riskin’s Business starring host Dan Riskin, as he answered simple questions with scientific experiments, like testing just how quiet predatory birds are when they’re on the hunt, and seeing if there is actually strategy to Rock Paper Scissors. She just wrapped her first full series Great Lakes Wild, an 8-part nature documentary show looking at the animals living around the Great Lakes. She wore multiple hats as producer, writer, as well as an additional shooter with her trusty GoPro and Panasonic GH4. Now, she’s story editing for The Big Feed, a nature series looking at how animals are fed at the National Zoo in Washington, DC.
Eponymous Awards
CALM has named some awards after communicators who have made significant contributions to the labour movement.
The Ed Finn Award for the best feature story

The Katie FitzRandolph Prize for the best overall publication, locals up to 500

The Morden Lazarus Prize for the best editorial, column or opinion piece that thoughtfully argues labour’s position on an issue

The Cliff Scotton Prize for the best piece reflecting the history, traditions and culture of the labour movement

The Dennis McGann Stroke-of-Genius Award for the most innovative, uncategorizable communications project
