CBC Saskatchewan wins 4 national RTDNA awards
A feature on the closing of Robertson Trading Post in La Ronge, Sask., is among the winners.
Features on MAID, Chinese Exclusion Act and the closing of Robertson Trading Post among the winners
CBC Saskatchewan took home three awards and played a part in a fourth at the national Radio Television and Digital News Association (RTDNA) Awards in Toronto on Saturday.
Reporter Kendall Latimer and videographer Don Somers won the best feature news (digital) award for their story about the closing of Robertson Trading in La Ronge, Sask.
The fur-trading post and general store operated in the northern community, 377 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon, for 56 years before closing its doors late last year.
Somers and reporter Jason Warick won the multi-platform enterprise award for a story following Jeanette Lodoen, who granted them access to her life in the months leading to her medically assisted death.
Reporter Florence Hwang and videographer Adam Bent's feature Unlocking Family Secrets won the best feature video award. The story delved into the secrets kept by some Chinese immigrant families. 
On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, one of Canada’s most discriminatory immigration policies, siblings reunited in Regina, where they grew up, to learn more about their parents’ immigration to Canada — and ended up unearthing some long-buried secrets.
And Geoff Leo won along with the Fifth Estate team for their work on Making an Icon, which investigated claims that Buffy Sainte-Marie was not a Cree Canadian woman born on the Piapot First Nation as she had claimed for her whole career. Leo and the Fifth Estate team uncovered documents, including a birth certificate, that showed she was in fact born to the white American couple she said had adopted her. 
An icon’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being called into question by family members and an investigation that included genealogical documentation, historical research and personal accounts. Host: Geoff Leo