The following is a list of those who’ve been awarded the Don McGillivray Award which recognizes the CAJ awards program’s best investigative journalism, published or broadcast.
| Year | Winner(s) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Jeff Hamilton, Katrina Clarke, Winnipeg Free Press Building blocks, crumbling foundations |
| 2023 | Aaron Derfel, The Gazette, Montreal Staff haunted by suicide and other deaths at the Lakeshore Hospital ER |
| 2022 | Grant Robertson, The Globe and Mail Inside Hockey Canada’s Secret Funds: The hidden use of registration fees in sexual assault settlements |
| 2021 | Brittany Guyot and Kathleen Martens, APTN Surviving Day Schools |
| 2020 | Tom Cardoso, The Globe and Mail Bias Behind Bars |
| 2019 | Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed News Trap King |
| 2018 | Laura Kane and Aleksandra Sagan, The Canadian Press The growing epidemic of drug resistance: The single greatest threat to human health on the planet |
| 2017 | Robyn Doolittle, Michael Pereira, Jeremy Agius, and Laura Blenkinsop, The Globe and Mail Unfounded |
| 2016 | Travis Lupick and Amanda Siebert, The Georgia Straight A community response: How the worst overdose epidemic in Vancouver’s history left the Downtown Eastside to fend for itself |
| 2015 | Cate Friesen, Cecil Rosner, Connie Walker, Duncan McCue, Tiar Wilson, Kimberly Ivany, Martha Troian, Chantelle Bellrichard, Joanne Levasseur, Teghan Beaudette, Kristy Hoffman, Donna Lee, Tara Lindemann, William Wolfe-Wyle, Richard Grassley, Michael Leschart, and Michael Pereira, CBC News Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women |
| 2014 | Jennie Russell and Charles Rusnell, CBC Edmonton Aura of Power |
| 2013 | Robert Fife, CTV News Senate Under Scrutiny |
| 2012 | Tim Bousquet, The Coast A trust betrayed: Peter Kelly and the estate of Mary Thibeault |
| 2011 | Steve Buist and Teri Pecoskie, Hamilton Spectator Born: A Code Red project |
| 2010 | Steve Buist, Hamilton Spectator Code Red |
| 2009 | Gordon Hoekstra, Prince George Citizen Downtown Fix |
| 2008 | Steve Buist, Hamilton Spectator A Pig’s Tale |
| 2007 | Greg McArthur and Gary Dimmock, The Globe and Mail/Ottawa Citizen The secret agent who conned the Mounties |
| 2006 | Fred Vallance-Jones, Robert Cribb, and Tamsin McMahon, Hamilton Spectator, Waterloo Region Record, Toronto Star Collision course |
| 2005 | David McKie, Susanne Reber, Sandra Bartlett, Pauline Dakin, Bob Carty, Paddy Moore, and Mike Gordon, CBC Investigative Unit Prescribed to death |
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| 2000 | Julian Sher, Theresa Burke, and Linden MacIntyre, CBC Fifth Estate His word against history |
| 1999 | Andrew McIntosh, National Post Into the rough |
| 1998 | Peter Cheney, Toronto Star Taxi |
| 1997 | Will Gibson, The St. Albert & Sturgeon Gazette Rich man, poor man |
