Vancouver Sun series on securities regulation failures nominated for journalism award

A Vancouver Sun and Province reporter’s work exposing the failures of Canadian security regulators and governments in collecting more than a half-billion dollars in financial penalties is up for national recognition.
Gordon Hoekstra’s 2017 series on financial crime — called Stealing Away — is one of six nominees for the Michener Award, which recognizes “meritorious public service journalism.”
Using databases created from a decade’s worth of penalty