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Shirlee Engel
Award-winning journalist Shirlee Engel has been covering news around the world as one of Global National‘s Ottawa correspondents since 2008.
Known for her hard-hitting investigative reporting and social media savvy, Shirlee’s work has been honoured by the Radio and Television News Directors Association.
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Her reporting and live Twitter updates from the courtroom during the sentencing hearing for disgraced Canadian Forces Col. Russell Williams won a Ron Laidlaw Award for Continuing Coverage for Global National.
Shirlee’s series exposing inequalities for veterans who develop ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease) also received honourable mention for the Dan McArthur Investigative Award.
Her reports prompted the federal government to change the rules to allow soldiers with the disease to get benefits. Dozens of veterans and their families have since received the help they need. The ALS Society of Canada h