Award as "Best Overall Broadcast Journalist," the prestigious Gordon Sinclair Award, in 1996. Nominated for numerous Geminis, he won "Best Information Segment" in 1994 for Rwanda: Autopsy of a Genocide, in which he uncovered advanced warnings of the mass murders. In 1995, his moving report Return To Ethiopia was broadcast internationally and his documentary The Somalia Affair won top prize for investigative reporting at the Canadian Association of Journalists awards in 1993. In May 2004, he presented the Convocation Address during the 160th Anniversary of Toronto's Knox College, University of Toronto, titled On the Front Lines . He was the 2009 Ross Munro Media Award Recipient; awarded by the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA), in concert with the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, in recognition of "his extraordinary contribution to increasing public understanding of Canadian defence and security issues." In 2012 he was made an honorary doctor of Theology after giving the Convocation address at the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax to mark his service to humanity as a reporter. In June 2012 he was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. In 2013, he was made a Member of the Order of Ontario. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022 with the rank of Officer. References External links Watch the original TV report that inspired Live Aid and Live 8 (1 November 1984) 1942 births Anglophone Quebec people Canadian television news anchors Canadian television reporters and correspondents CBC Television people Canadian Screen Award winning journalists Living people Members of the Order of Ontario Montreal Gazette people Toronto Metropolitan University alumni 20th-century Canadian journalists 21st-century Canadian journalists Centre for Investigative Journalism Award winners Officers of the Order of Canada Journalists from Toronto