CANADA
Romanians win top prizes
in the 3rd
World Press Freedom Award
Above:
Mihai Ignat's winning entry
Ottawa, Canada, May 3,2003 - The National
Press Club of Canada held a luncheon on May 2, 2003, in Ottawa,
to honor the recipients of the third World Press Freedom Award.
The first prize of $1500 in the editorial cartooning category was
given to Mihai Ignat of Ploiesti, Romania, who,
unfortunately, could not attend the event. The second prize of $1000
was awarded to Costel Patrascan of Braila, Romania,
the third prize of $600. to Bert Witte of the Netherlands
and the fourth prize of $400. to Delcho Mihajlov
of Macedonia. The 3rd annual competition attracted more than 875
submissions from 43 countries on issues of Censorship.
Prestigious U.S. institution in hot water
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, September 5, 2002 - The creators of a Canadian comic book have accused the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology of using their conception of a futuristic
soldier to help the institution win a $50-million defense contract.
The soldier that they say has been misappropriated is the heroine
of "Radix," a comic book that sells for less than three
U.S. dollars.
Newspaper ink is the rose of her nose
 Toronto, Canada,
June 19, 2002 - "I am a political
cartoonist because fighting injustice is the apple of my eye and
newspaper ink is the rose of my nose" says Cinders McLeod
who will be covering for Tony Jenkins, one of the two staff
cartoonists at Canada's Globe and Mail for the next six months.
McLeod was born in Toronto and lived in Britain for 22 years. She
has cartooned for most of the major British Newspapers, including
The Guardian and The Independent and held long running
cartoons in the Express (Alien TV), The Glasgow Herald
(Broomie Law, Present Sense, The Stoater, Traveller Checks) and
The Scotsman (Sod the Public). A book of her cartoon 5 year
old street wise girl "Broomie
Law" (named after the Glasgow docks) was published by Luath
Press (Edinburgh) November 2000.
Gable wins National Newspaper Award
in Canada
Calgary, Canada, April 2002
- The National Newspaper Award for editorial cartooning was awarded to Brian
Gable (click here
for his winning cartoon) of The Globe and Mail, published in Toronto.
Gable has also won the award in 1995 and in 1986 while he was working at
The Leader-Post in Regina. The finalists were Theo Moudakis
(Mou) of The Toronto Star and Cameron Cardow (Cam) of The
Ottawa Citizen .
 Israeli Russian
immigrant wins the 2nd World Press Freedom Award
Ottawa, Canada, May 3, 2002 -
The National Press Club of Canada held a luncheon on May 3, in Ottawa, to
honour the recipients of the second World Press Freedom Award. The first
prize of $1500 in the editorial cartooning category was given to Yurij
Ochakovski (see his winning work on the right) of Richon Le-Zion, Israel,
who, unfortunately, could not attend the event. The second and third prizes
of $500 were awarded to Haddad Marc of Boissy-St.-Léger, France
and Oleg Dergatchov of Lvov, Ukraine. The 2nd annual competition
attracted more than 500 submissions from 38 countries on issues of Freedom
of Expression.
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