kudos and props

• Canadian Film Centre's Creative Excellence award (2019)
  
• United Way speaker, representing Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Toronto (2004 to 2011)
• Association of Educational Publishers Award nomination for an article in Owl magazine (2006)
• Canadian Church Press Award for a piece in The Presbyterian Record (2005)
  
• Keynote speaker at French for the Future conference (2005)
• Big Sister of the Year for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Toronto (2003)
• National Newspaper Award nomination for a series that appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal (1999)
• Atlantic Journalism Award (1999)
• Amnesty International - Canada Award (1999)
• National Newspaper Award (1998)
• Atlantic Journalism Award nominations (1997 & 1998)