Ottawa Citizen columnist and senior writer Bruce Deachman was awarded the Shepherd of the Good Hope Media Award for his reporting of homelessness across the city.

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Ottawa Citizen columnist and senior writer Bruce Deachman has been awarded the Shepherds of the Good Hope Media Award for his reporting on homelessness across the city. Article content

Deachman won the organization’s award for “enhancing public awareness and understanding of homelessness and its associated complex issues.” Article content Article content

“I think it is super important to keep these issues in the press and to be recognized for it is quite an honour,” he said.

“I’m grateful to the editors at the paper who consider marginalized people worth writing about.”

Deachman said he began writing sto

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