CTV News Kitchener has earned five nominations for the prestigious RTDNA awards, celebrating excellence in broadcast journalism. The nominations highlight the station's commitment to impactful storytelling across a range of topics, from public health to community safety.
Nominated Stories and Coverage
The nominated pieces include an investigation into colorectal cancer screening changes in Ontario, lauded by experts and survivors. Another story covers a stabbing in East York, where police took a suspect into custody. The station also reported on business group concerns about the implementation of the Disaster Relief and Insurance Program (DRIP), with 100% of members expressing unease.
Additional nominations feature coverage of the province's first steps to shut down a notorious Abbotsford encampment, and a tragic drowning of a 12-year-old at Mahogany Lake. The station's reporting on foreign actors producing false content about Alberta separatism also received recognition.
Other Key Stories
Beyond the nominated pieces, CTV News Kitchener covered a range of significant events. These include cooler-than-normal temperatures in Ottawa, OC Transpo's compensation ideas for poor service, and a poll indicating most Canadians want social media and AI chatbot bans for kids under 16. The station also reported on Airbus securing a 150-plane order with AirAsia, benefiting Quebec aviation.
Economic stories included an economist's view on gas prices, an illegal house demo appeal, and Halifax renters rallying over infestations. Alerts about a man with a machete caused confusion in Gaetz Brook, N.S., while millennials are waiting longer to buy homes, according to Statistics Canada.
Community stories featured future plans for the St. Boniface water tower, a missing boy found safe in Regina, and a former Sask. NDP MLA's departure over involuntary treatment. A cold case from 1963 involving a toddler's disappearance in Brantford was also revisited.
Sports and Entertainment
In sports, the Kitchener Rangers won Game 1 of the 2026 OHL championship, and a Saskatoon wheelchair dancer prepared for the world stage. The Roughriders returned to training camp, and the PWHL's expansion into Detroit brought women's hockey closer to Windsor. Other stories included a boil water advisory in Greater Sudbury, rising gas prices, and a human trafficking arrest in London.
Entertainment coverage included Canadian rapper Drake helping Italian soccer club Venezia secure investment, finalists for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and analysis of concert cancellations linked to 'blue dot fever.'
Health and Environment
Health stories featured hantavirus rise in Argentina, the ineffectiveness of social media for friendships, and a denied dream cruise becoming a floating quarantine. Environmental reporting covered Alaska wildlife agents killing bears from helicopters to protect caribou, heavy floods turning a backyard into a body of water, and scientists using raccoons and possums to track invasive Burmese pythons in Florida.
Science and technology stories included a Meta request to throw out a social media addiction verdict and a Canadian company's innovation for drinking water on the moon.
