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Global News Calgary presented with 5 awards at RTDNA Prairie Regional Awards

A file photo of the Global Calgary logo. Global News

Global News Calgary was honoured with awards in five different categories at the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Canada’s Prairie Regional Awards in Medicine Hat, Alta. Saturday night.

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Global News Calgary won the Gord Sinclair Award for live special events for Decision Alberta 2015, its coverage of the historic 2015 provincial election won by the Alberta NDP, ending the Progressive Conservative party’s 44 years in power. The election special included work from employees of both Global News Edmonton and Global News Lethbridge.

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Global News Calgary wins the Gord Sinclair Award for live special events at the RTDNA Prairie Regional Awards in Medicine Hat, Alta. on April 23, 2016. Chris Bassett/ Global News

The newsroom also won the Adrienne Clarkson Award for diversity for Witness Blanket, Jill Croteau’s report on an art project aimed at remembering Canada’s residential school system.

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Watch below: An art project is commemorating residential schools and their painful past. Jill Croteau takes us back to where it all started.

Global News Calgary also won the Bert Cannings Award (Large Market) for best newscast for its coverage of the Stadium Plaza Fire,  a massive blaze that destroyed six businesses and sent two firefighters to hospital.

READ MORE: 6 businesses damaged by blaze at Stadium Shopping Centre

Global Calgary’s Heather Yourex-West won the Dave Rogers Award (Large Market) for short feature for Life & Death Decisions, looking at the issues surrounding physician-assisted death.

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Nancy Hixt was given the Ron Laidlaw Award for continuing coverage for her series on the shocking abuse some taxi drivers face from passengers.

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