August Clip Results 2023

Judges

Elke Scholiers, freelance photojournalist, India & South Asia
Anushree Fadnavis – Reuters staff photographer – New Delhi, India
Lauren DeCicca – freelance photojournalist – Bangkok, Thailand

Photographers- 13
Feature- 33
News- 14
Sports- 22
Spot News- not enough entries, held over to next month
Portrait- 14
Multi-Photo- 8 entries/100 photos

FEATURE

1. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press

A man cools off at a temporary misting station deployed by the city in the Downtown Eastside due to a heat wave, in Vancouver, on Wednesday, August 16, 2023. Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley with temperatures set to reach the mid-thirties away from the water.

2. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press

Smoke from the McDougall Creek wildfire fills the air and nearly blocks out the sun as people take in the view of Okanagan Lake from Tugboat Beach, in Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, August 18, 2023.

3. Chelsea Kemp/CBC Manitoba

A butterfly lands on Mya Rosmus, 9, at the Tiwahe Wellness Camp on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023 at Grand Valley Campground.

NEWS

1. Chelsea Kemp/CBC Manitoba

Lorraine Poirier, left, with her friend Tammy Threlfell grieve for Threlfell’s son Dylan Jasper, who died nine years ago, at Brandon’s Toxic Drug Poisoning Awareness Walk hosted by Manitoba Harm Reduction Network and Brandon Overdose Awareness on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023.

2. Gavin John/The Globe and Mail

Michael Crowe sits with his head in his hands among the rest of his platoon with the Bold Eagle staff in the background prior to setting up their field camp on CFB Wainwright on Aug 3, 2023. Through Bold Eagle, the CAF has built an ever-adapting model of collaboration with their Indigenous partners and cultural advisers in the FISN, Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association and the Alberta Métis Veterans Association.

3. Marissa Tiel/Freelance

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau loads a box of donations into a van at Mamas for Mamas, a nonprofit that has been providing aid during the McDougall Creek wildfire, in Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023.

H.M. Laura Proctor/Freelance

Corgis and their owners take the bus after a corgi meetup at Cherry Beach in Toronto on August 13, 2023

SPORTS

1. Michelle Berg/Saskatoon StarPhoenix

University of Saskatchewan Huskies offensive lineman Michael Palumbo (65) runs on field during the Canada West pre-season football against University of Calgary Dinos at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

2. Kevin Light/ Freelance

A member of the Jamaican Rugby 7’s team escapes the tackle of a defender from team Bermuda during the Rugby Americas North 2024 Paris Olympic qualifying tournament in Langford, British Columbia Canada on August 19th, 2023.

3. Bernard Brault/Freelance

LPGA pro golfer Megan Khang is all smile looking at the trophy after winning her first event in her career at the CPKC Women’s Open at the Shaughnessy Golf & Country Club in Vancouver.

H.M. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press

John Huston, of the United States, hits from the 13th tee during the PGA Tour Champions Shaw Charity Classic golf event in Calgary, Alta., Friday, Aug. 18, 2023.

PORTRAIT

1. Gavin John/The Globe and Mail

Bold Eagle participant Mayumi Willie poses for a photo in the field at CFB Wainwright on Aug 8, 2023. “I want people to know we’re still here.” Willie says. The Kwakwaka’wakw/Japanese youth from Port Hardy, B.C is optimistic about the future of Indigenous people from her community. “People think our culture and language is dying out, but that’s not true. We’re working on revitalizing it.” She says that by participating in Bold Eagle gives her pride and connection in her culture and a resiliency that she looks to pass on to others. “Stay true to your culture, it’s helped me through a lot of things.”

2. Kevin Light/ Freelance

John Jordan member of the Oak Bay club poses for a portrait in his garden in Oak Bay, British Columbia on August 20th, 2023. John along with his wife Toni hold two plant sales a year with the proceeds going towards supporting widows and orphans in Rwanda helping to offset the cost of food, clothes, school and medical bills. The latest sale raised $5,400 which was $1000 more than his sale earlier in the year.

3. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press

Keith Swirlle rests in his truck while directing traffic from Yellowknife in Fort Providence, NWT, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Over 20,000 residents of the Northwest Territories capital and members of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation were forced to evacuate due the threat of wildfires.

SPOT NEWS

Comments: Not enough entries, carried over to next month

MULTI-PHOTO

1. Gavin John/The Globe and Mail

Lorenzo Star Walker Charles holds the Bold Eagle staff as Powwow dancers move past him during the Kawacatoose First Nation Powwow on July 29, 2023. The Bold Eagle program selects 100 Indigenous youth from Western Canada and Northwestern Ontario to take part in the competitive program every summer for the past 34 years.

(left to right) Max Brydon-Dubois, Eden Auger, Prestyn Clampitt, and Mayumi Willie from Wolfe Platoon learn navigation tools in a classroom setting on base on July 28, 2023. Bold Eagle program selects 100 Indigenous youth from Western Canada and Northwestern Ontario to take part in the competitive program every summer for the past 34 years. The program follows the CAF’s Primary Reserve Basic Military Qualifications (BMQ) format but weaves in cultural teachings and considerations for participants.

A Bold Eagle instructor checks to see how accurately his charges are shooting at the range exercises on CFB Wainwright, Alta on Aug 2, 2023. The program is divided into three platoons, Taypotat, Pechawis, and Wolfe each named in honour of prominent Indigenous veterans, from Afghanistan and the Second World War. Each platoon trains and bunks together throughout the 6 week course.

Trey Hartfield is carried off the training grounds in a stretcher after passing out due to heat exaustion on Aug 2, 2023. In partnership with the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, the six-week-long program based in the Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, Central Alberta, is one of five regional programs across Canada that are made exclusively for Indigenous youth.

Light streams into the back of a troop transport on onto Mary-Anne Guiboche (right) and Madison Marquette (left) on Aug 2, 2023. Guiboche says she doesn’t intend on pursuing a career in the CAF but is planning on enrolling in Film School after graduating Bold Eagle. There is no obligation for graduates to pursue a career in the CAF since Bold Eagle is first and foremost a youth development program that seeks to cultivate leadership, fitness, teamwork and resiliency.

A Bold Eagle participant wraps a bundle of sage brush with yarn on Aug 3, 2023. After arriving at the field camp site, a group of participants began gathering sage to make bundles. Conversation around tobacco offerings, in particular when to offer, highlighted a difference between the many cultures present in Bold Eagle Over a half a dozen First Nations and Métis settlements were typically present in a single section creating a diverse cross section of Western Canadian indigenous cultures.

Michael Crowe sits with his head in his hands among the rest of his platoon prior to setting up their field camp on Aug 3, 2023. Through Bold Eagle, the CAF has built an ever-adapting model of collaboration with their Indigenous partners and cultural advisers in the FISN, Saskatchewan First Nations Veterans Association and the Alberta Métis Veterans Association.

Mayumi Willie (far right) guides the rest of her squad during a day long navigation exercise on Aug 3, 2023. Participants were asked to find a number of dinner plate sized signs in the training grounds of CFB Wainwright using only compass and a map.

Cree/Métis youth Nevaeh Dahl from Edmonton smudges while on field exercise at CFB Wainwright training grounds on Aug 8, 2023. Throughout the duration of the program, elders Shirley Charlotte Constant from the Chakastaypasin First Nation and James Whitehawk from the Cote First Nation provided advice, encouragement, and spiritual guidance for candidates.

Lawrence Taylor Dolha stands siloutetted by the Northern Lights during a night navigation course on Aug 4, 2023. Participants were expected to navigate to predetermined points in the middle of the night in order to pass their field training portion. ‘This isn’t a summer camp,’ says Major Ward Lentz, a commander in the Bold Eagle program. ‘When they’re here they’re adults, they’re soldiers.’

Kayla Judge (third from left) sings in the rain with the rest of Wolfe Platoon on their final march the day before graduation on Aug 9, 2023. Initially Bold Eagle was intended as a recruitment tool by the Canadian Armed Forces, but over the past 34 years has changed into youth development and capacity building at the request of the FSIN partners. “We are alive to it all of the time.” Maj. Lentz says about the CAF’s role in moving forward in Reconciliation. “All we can do is acknowledge our past, do better, and move forward collaboratively.”

A Bold Eagle participant wears a Métis sash during their graduation ceremony on August 10th. The Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Russ Mirasty, the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Salma Lakhani, and 3rd Canadian Division Brigadier-General S.G Graham were in attendance.

Kayla Judge embraces her boyfriend after successfully graduating the BOLD EAGLE program on Aug 3, 2023. Judge was selected for both the Best Recruit and Warrior Spirit award from Wolfe Platoon. The BOLD EAGLE program leadership roles rotate every several years. Maj. Lentz will be handing over his command to Cap. Trenton Gervais this October. Capt. Gervais who is from Flying Dust First Nation says he is proud to lead the next year of BOLD EAGLE participants. “They’re our new warriors. They’ll make our communities and nations proud.”

2. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press

The McDougall Creek wildfire burns on the mountainside above a lakefront home, in West Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, August 18, 2023.

The McDougall Creek wildfire burns on the mountainside above houses, in West Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, August 18, 2023.

The McDougall Creek wildfire burns on the mountainside above a lakefront home, in West Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, August 18, 2023.

Smoke from the McDougall Creek wildfire fills the air and nearly blocks out the sun as people take in the view of Okanagan Lake from Tugboat Beach, in Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, August 18, 2023.

A person travels in a boat past people walking on the boardwalk as smoke from the McDougall Creek wildfire blankets the area on Okanagan Lake, in Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, August 18, 2023.

A helicopter equipped to respond to wildfires flies past homes in the Wilden neighbourhood near Knox Mountain after RCMP officers enforced a new evacuation order, in Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, August 18, 2023.

Evacuees leave with a trailer of belongings after a wildfire evacuation alert was upgraded to an order and they were forced to leave the Wilden neighbourhood near Knox Mountain, in Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, August 18, 2023.

RCMP officers meet at a roadblock after evacuating the Wilden neighbourhood near Knox Mountain due to a wildfire burning above homes, in Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, August 18, 2023.

A resident is placed in an ambulance as paramedics assist in the evacuation of a seniors care facility due to wildfires, in Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, August 18, 2023.

A man sits in the parking lot outside an evacuation centre for those forced from their homes due to wildfires, in Kelowna, B.C., on Saturday, August 19, 2023.

A woman carries a young boy outside an evacuation centre for those forced from their homes due to wildfires, in Kelowna, B.C., on Saturday, August 19, 2023.

Wildfire evacuees Warren Pullen, left, and veteran Rob Pullen sit outside their trailer in the parking lot at an evacuation centre, in Kelowna, B.C., on Saturday, August 19, 2023.

Smoke from wildfires burning in the area fills the air as a bald eagle carries a fish in Blind Bay, B.C., on Saturday, August 19, 2023.

Smoke fills the air as Trevor Manzuik and his wife Pat are given a boat ride by good samaritan Christy Dewalt, not seen, to check on their home they were evacuated from due to the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire, in Scotch Creek, B.C., on Sunday, August 20, 2023.

Smoke fills the air as Pat Manzuik and his wife Trevor use a paddleboat to get to shore after being given a boat ride by good samaritan Christy Dewalt, back right, back to their home they were evacuated from due to the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire, in Scotch Creek, B.C., on Sunday, August 20, 2023.

Trevor Manzuik, who was evacuated from his home due to the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire, sprays down his property after returning home by boat, in Scotch Creek, B.C., on Sunday, August 20, 2023.

A hot spot from the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire burns in Scotch Creek, B.C., on Sunday, August 20, 2023.

Trevor Manzuik, who was evacuated from his home, views a property that was destroyed by the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire while using an all-terrain vehicle to check on his neighbours after returning home by boat, in Scotch Creek, B.C., on Sunday, August 20, 2023.

Thick smoke from wildfires burning in the area hangs in the air as motorists travel on the Trans-Canada Highway east of Kamloops, B.C., on Sunday, August 20, 2023.

3. Michelle Berg/Saskatoon StarPhoenix

University of Saskatchewan Huskies offensive lineman Michael Palumbo (65) runs on field during Canada West pre-season football against University of Calgary Dinos at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

University of Saskatchewan Huskies Tyrus Flory (81) kicks the ball during Canada West pre-season football against University of Calgary Dinos at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

University of Saskatchewan Huskies University of Saskatchewan Huskies Rhett Vavra runs with the ball during Canada West pre-season football against University of Calgary Dinos at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

University of Saskatchewan Huskies special teams coordinator Jerry Friesen yells at the referee during Canada West pre-season football against University of Calgary Dinos at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

University of Saskatchewan Huskies University of Saskatchewan Huskies linebacker Lane Novak (48) and University of Saskatchewan Huskies receiver Xander Pierce (38) tackle University of Calgary Dinos Roan Reid during Canada West pre-season football at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

University of Saskatchewan Huskies cheerleaders entertain during halftime at the Canada West pre-season football game against University of Calgary Dinos at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

University of Saskatchewan Huskies defensive back John Stoll (39) celebrates during Canada West pre-season football against University of Calgary Dinos at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

University of Saskatchewan Huskies running back Ted Kubongo (7) and University of Saskatchewan Huskies receiver Daniel Wiebe (2) celebrate a touchdown during Canada West pre-season football against University of Calgary Dinos at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

The crowd cheers on the University of Saskatchewan Huskies during Canada West pre-season football against University of Calgary Dinos at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

University of Saskatchewan Huskies quarterback Mustapha Yekini (8) and University of Saskatchewan Huskies running back Kody Gutek (35) celebrate a win against Calgary Dinos during Canada West pre-season football at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

The sun sets during the University of Saskatchewan Huskies Canada West pre-season football against University of Calgary Dinos at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

University of Saskatchewan Huskies gather after defeating the Calgary Dinos 48-6 at Griffiths Stadium in Nutrien Park. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Friday, August 25, 2023.

2023 STANDINGS…MONTH…TOTAL

1. Darryl Dyck/Freelance…130…1200
2. Steve Russell/The Toronto Star…0…790
3. Kevin Light/ Freelance…80…500
4. Bernard Brault/Freelance…30…490
5. Chelsea Kemp/CBC Manitoba…80…380
6. Patrick Woodbury/Le Droit…0…350
7. Michelle Berg/Saskatoon StarPhoenix…80…290
8. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press…40…230
9. Marie-France Coallier/Le Devoir…0…210
10. Laura Proctor/Freelance…10…180
11. Marissa Tiel/Freelance…30…160
12. Gavin John/Freelance…140…140
13. Evan Buhler/Freelance…0…120
14. Christopher Pike/Freelance…0…90
15. Spencer Colby/Freelance…0…80
16. Michel Tremblay/Le Quotidien…0…40
17. Nick Lachance/Freelance…0…30
16. Jack Simpson/Freelance…0…30