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Line 1: {{Short description|Canadian journalist}} [[File:Kim Bolan portrait (28699332758).jpg|thumb|]] '''Kim Rosemary Bolan''' (born 1959)<ref>https://viaf.org/processed/LAC|0060H0035{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved May 18, 2015.</ref> is a Canadian [[journalist]] who has been a [[reporter]] at the ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'' since her journalism career began in 1984. She has reported on minority, women's, education, and [[social services]] issues; wars in [[El Salvador]], [[Guatemala]] and [[Afghanistan]];<ref name="RHbio"/> [[Sikh extremism]], and the bombing and trials related to [[Air India Flight 182]]. [[CBC Radio]] has also featured her work. On May 4, 2017, while covering a murder trial of a former leader of the UN Gang, Bolan learned that she had been the subject of a murder plot, which she reported on in an article published on May 24, 2017, in the ''Vancouver Sun''.<ref name="RHbio">{{cite web |title=Author Spotlight : Kim Bolan |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=69155 |accessdate=July 15, 2009 |publisher=Random House}}</ref> Line 10 ⟶ 11: Bolan has won or "been shortlisted for" 15 awards.<ref name="RHbio"/> Bolan won the [[International Women's Media Foundation#Courage in Journalism Awards|Courage in Journalism Award]] presented by the [[International Women's Media Foundation]]<ref name="WPFPresent"/> in 1999.<ref name="CJFEcourage">{{cite web |date=September 27, 1999 |title=NEWS RELEASE: Canadian Kim Bolan wins IWMF Courage in Journalism Award |url=http://www.cjfe.org/releases/1999/bolan.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016002538/http://www.cjfe.org/releases/1999/bolan.html |archivedate=October 16, 2009 |accessdate=July 15, 2009 |publisher=Canadian Journalists for Free Expression}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kim Bolan, Canada |url=http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?id=565&c=cijwinner |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive. In 2000, the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom (the National Press Club of Canada) presented its 1st Press Freedom Award (1999) to Bolan for continuing her investigations after she was "...threatened with violence and placed under police protection during her investigative reporting on the Air India bombing."<ref name="CCWPF">{{cite web |title=Previous winners of the Press Freedom Award are |url=http://www.ccwpf-cclpm.ca/press-freedom-day-lunch/past-winners |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501045216/http://www.ccwpf-cclpm.ca/press-freedom-day-lunch/past-winners |archivedate=May 1, 2009 |accessdate=July 15, 2009 |publisher=Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom}}</ref><ref>[http://www.canada.ifex.org/fr/content/view/full/26585/ KIM BOLAN RECEIVES CANADIAN PRESS FREEDOM AWARD]{{dead link|date=October 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} – International Press Freedom Information Exchange, May 2000</ref> Secretary of State [[David Kilgour]] presented the award and concluded by saying "Today, in recognition of her strength of character, professionalism and courage to continue in her role as a leading journalist in the face of threats and other forms of extreme intimidation, the National Press Club of Canada is pleased to award the Press Freedom Award to Kim Bolan of the Vancouver Sun."<ref name="WPFPresent">{{cite web |date=May 3, 2000 |title=World Press Freedom Award Presentation:Speaking notes for Hon. David Kilgour |url=http://www.david-kilgour.com/secstate/pressfre.htm |accessdate=July 15, 2009}}</ref> Line 32 ⟶ 33: *[http://blogs.vancouversun.com/category/staff/crime-and-justice/the-real-scoop/ The Real Scoop] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127005459/http://blogs.vancouversun.com/category/staff/crime-and-justice/the-real-scoop/ |date=2013-01-27 }} - Kim Bolan's blog at the ''Vancouver Sun'' * {{LCAuth|n2006030887|Kim Bolan|1|ue}} {{Air India Flight 182}}▼ ▲{{Air India Flight 182}} {{IWMF awards}} {{Authority control}} Line 40 ⟶ 42: [[Category:Canadian women journalists]] [[Category:Air India Flight 182]]
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