Kim Bolan

Kim Bolan

Kim Bolan has been a reporter at "The Vancouver Sun" since she started in journalism in 1984. She has reported on minority, women’s, education, and social services issues but is most well-known for her award-winning coverage of the bombing and trials related to Air India Flight 182. She has reported on wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Afghanistan. She is also a regular contributor to CBC-Radio. In the opinion of many across the lower mainland and North America, she is seen as a rasict and one-sided reporter.

She has won and been shortlisted for over fifteen major national and international journalism awards, including the Courage in Journalism Award by the International Women's Media Foundation in 1999 and the 2006 PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Prize for her continuing coverage of the Air India story while receiving death threats by mail, by telephone, and via local Punjabi language radio shows. [ [http://www.pencanada.ca/media/Media-PENPaulKidd-03Oct06.pdf] Journalist Kim Bolan chosen as the winner of the PEN Canada-PaulKidd Courage Prize, Press release, PEN Canada, October 3, 2006, Retrieved on June 22, 2007]

In February 2007, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper caused "a political storm" by trying to read part of a Bolan article into the record of the Canadian House of Commons. He was suggesting his Liberal opponents were refusing to extend anti-terrorism measures in order to protect the father-in-law of a Liberal Member of Parliament. [ [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FRTGAM.20070222.wbains0222%2FBNStory%2FNational%2F&ord=967763&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true No apology for Bains] By Tenille Bonoguore, "Globe and Mail" Update and Canadian Press, Published February 22, 2007, Retrieved on June 22, 2007 (subscription required)]

Books

* 2005 - "Loss of Faith: How the Air-India Bombers Got Away With Murder" ISBN 978-0-7710-1131-3

Awards

* 1999 - Courage in Journalism Award by the International Women's Media Foundation
* 2000 - inaugural Press Freedom Award from the National Press Club of Canada [ [http://www.canada.ifex.org/fr/content/view/full/26585/ KIM BOLAN RECEIVES CANADIAN PRESS FREEDOM AWARD] - International Press Freedom Information Exchange, May 2000]
* 2006 - PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Prize

ee also

* Air India Flight 182
*

External links

* [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=69155 Kim Bolan] - Author spotlight by Random House publishers, Retrieved June 22, 2007
* [http://www.pencanada.ca/media/Media-PENPaulKidd-03Oct06.pdf Kim Bolan]
* [http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/05/02/kim-bolan-taking-on-sikhism-s-canadian-extremists.aspx Kim Bolan: Taking on Sikhism's Canadian extremists]

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