The 2017 Canadian Hillman Prize goes to Min Sook Lee for her groundbreaking TVO documentary, Migrant Dreams, which profiles a group of migrant agricultural workers who were lured to Canada by promises of high-paying greenhouse jobs only to find exploitation, surveillance, and intimidation via the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

An honorable mention goes to Jorge Barrera for Quest for Innocence on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network for reversing the wrongful second-degree murder conviction of Connie Oakes, a Cree woman sentenced to a lengthy prison term for a murder she did not commit.

Another honorable mention goes to Sara Mojtehedzadeh and her team at the Toronto Star for A Workers’ Compensation System in Crisis, a hard-hitting series on the quiet dismantling of Ontario’s workers’ compensation system.

Learn more about this year’s Canadian Hillman honorees.

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

• A conspiracist, a recent high school grad, and lots of lobbyists: Trump’s 400 new federal hires
   
• Senate Republicans vote to coddle federal contractors who violate workplace safety laws.
   
• How Steve Bannon is crippling the federal government.
   
• KKK Wizard refutes white supremacy. 

The Best of the Week’s News

• How much does Trump’s lavish lifestyle cost taxpayers? 
   
• A “manufactured crisis” for the Affordable Care Act
   
• Are the Trump Organization’s days numbered under New York law? 
   
• Will climate change sink Mexico City?
   
• GOP-backed bill could decimate public sector unions in Iowa

Sidney’s Picks: The Best of the Week’s News

• DCReport is an exciting new project that goes beyond parsing what politicians say to expose what they actually do 
   
• “Reforming,” “revamping,” “fixing”: Weasel words for cutting Social Security 
   
• Congressional Republicans balk at Trump’s border wall. 
   
• What the Women’s Marchers can learn from the Tea Party.