Atkinson Series

Atkinson fellow Gillian Steward is a Calgary-based journalist and a former managing editor of the Calgary Herald. She has covered politics, energy, business and labour in Alberta since the Lougheed era and writes a regular column on the West for the Star’s op-ed pages.

• More from Gillian Steward
• Star columnist wins Atkinson Fellowship

For more than 25 years, the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy has contributed to public discourse and policy innovation. Named for Joseph E. Atkinson, who was at the helm of the Toronto Star for nearly five decades, the fellowship stands for the importance of investigative journalism in Canada, how it sustains democracy, and how it leads to policy solutions. It recognizes the relationship between the practice of journalism and the work of social change. The fellowship, sponsored by the Atkinson Charitable Foundation, the Honderich family and the Toronto Star, culminates in a series of articles in the Toronto Star.

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