Curt Petrovich is a Canadian journalist. He has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation since 1986. Petrovich is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has also worked for the CBC in Iqaluit, Winnipeg and

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. In 1999, Petrovich was awarded the Michener Award by

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Adrienne Clarkson for his coverage of a vote-splitting scandal in the

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. Following interviews with Darryl Sutherland, Petrovich discovered that organizers of the Progressive Conservative Party had funded Independent Native Voice candidates to split the left-of-centre vote with the

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in three constituencies. He made the following comment about CBC management in 2005, following the Corporation's lockout of its workers:

"Why isn't someone trying to take back the controls from a bunch of box cutter-wielding ideologues who are ready to smash this organization into the pillars of public trust that took decades to build?"

In 2008, Petrovich's stories on the sale of MacDonald Dettwiler were named the best in radio reporting in British Columbia at the

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. In 2009, Petrovich was presented the Canadian Association of Journalists award for faith and spirituality along with fellow CBC journalists including Frank Koller and

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for their work on CBC Radio'
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In the same year, Petrovich was awarded another Jack Webster Award for Best Feature Story in radio for his feature on the Canadian Men's Eight Rowing Team. In 2019, Petrovich authored "Blamed and Broken: The

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and the Death of

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," an investigation into the aftermath of the Tasering of

at Vancouver's International Airport in 2007.

References

External links

CBC profile

Blamed and Broken:The Mounties and the death of Robert Dziekanski
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