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Books Loss of Faith: How the Air-India Bombers Got Away with Murder Similar Bindy Johal, Tara Singh Hayer, Douglas Todd, Maple Batalia, Ranj Dhaliwal | ||
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Kim Rosemary Bolan (born 1959) has been a reporter at The Vancouver Sun since her journalism career began in 1984. Bolan has reported on minority, women’s, education, and social services issues; wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Afghanistan; Sikh extremism, and the bombing and trials related to Air India Flight 182. CBC Radio has also featured Bolan's work. On May 4th 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 against her. Bolan reported on her own murder plot in an article published on May 24th 2017, in the Vancouver Sun.
Contents
- Kim bolan gangs 101
- Gang trial reveals murder plot against Vancouver journalist The Investigators with Diana Swain
- Early career
- Awards and honours
- Political storm of 2007
- Books
- References
Gang trial reveals murder plot against Vancouver journalist (The Investigators with Diana Swain)
Early career
Bolan grew up in Courtenay on Vancouver Island. She was a writer in high school, contributing to the Comox District Free Press and she sent stories on the bus to Victoria to be published in the daily Times Colonist newspaper. While attending the University of Victoria she worked as sports editor of The Oak Bay Star.
Bolan then graduated with a Master's degree in journalism from the University of Western Ontario in the 1980s.
Awards and honours
Bolan has won or "been shortlisted for" 15 awards.
Bolan won the Courage in Journalism Award presented by the International Women's Media Foundation in 1999.
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." David Kilgour, then Secretary of State, 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."
In 2001, the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association awarded her with the Reg Robson award for her "fearless commitment to freedom of expression". The award is given to honour people who have demonstrated a substantial and long-lasting contribution to civil liberties issues in British Columbia and Canada.
In 2006 PEN Canada presented her with the Paul Kidd Courage Prize
Reporting on her speech at the Fraser Institute in 2007, The Times of India reported that Bolan still received death threats over her coverage of the 1985 Air India bombing.
"Political storm" of 2007
In February 2007, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper caused "a political storm" by trying to read part of a Bolan article into the record of the Canadian House of Commons. He was suggesting his Liberal opponents were refusing to extend anti-terrorism measures in order to protect the father-in-law of a Member of Parliament.
Books
Kim Bolan's first book, "Loss of Faith: How the Air-India Bombers Got Away With Murder", was published in 2005.