Michener Award

Handed out annually since 1970, the Michener Award is one of the highest honours in journalism, recognizing the story deemed to have had the greatest impact on public policy or the lives of Canadians.

The Sun has been shortlisted for the award seven times and won once, in 1976, for a series of stories by John Sawatsky documenting RCMP misdeeds and a coverup that extended into the senior management levels at RCMP headquarters in Ottawa.