TORONTO, Oct. 26, 2018, /CNW/ – Professional car journalist Justin Pritchard obtained top honors on the 2018 Automobile Journalists Association of Canada’s 35th Annual Journalism Awards, held on Thursday, October 25, 2018, at the Ajax Convention Centre in Ajax, Ontario. Justin Pritchard became named the Jaguar Land Rover Journalist of the Year, the most esteemed award available to members of the Association. In general, 24 newshounds had been honored with awards.
“Jaguar Land Rover Canada may be very proud to be the imparting sponsor of this award for the past 35 years. Every year the finalist’s submissions are terrific and this year changed into no exception. All 3 finalists were very worthy, and we were thrilled for Justin to take domestic the coveted prize. Congratulations also to Mark and Marc, who once again submitted the highest quality stage of work,” said John Lindo of Jaguar Land Rover.
The AJAC Journalist of the Year award supplied utilizing Jaguar Land Rover turned into inaugurated in 1984 utilizing John Mackie, past president of Jaguar Canada, to “praise excellence in automotive journalism” and has been provided via Jaguar Land Rover Canada for the beyond 35 years.
This 12 months’ first runner-up is Mark Richardson, and 2nd runner-up is Marc Lachapelle.
The full list of awards and recipients on the 35th Annual AJAC Journalism Awards is as follows:
Journalist of the Year Presented via Jaguar Land Rover Canada
Winner: Justin Pritchard
1st Runner-Up: Mark Richardson
2d Runner Up: Marc Lachapelle
Wakefield Castrol Awards for Automotive Writing
Technical Topics
Winner: Sami Haj-Assaad
Runner-Up: Mark Toljagic
Vehicle Review/Testing
Winner: Jeff Wilson
Runner-Up: Mark Toljagic
Feature Writing Award Presented utilizing Subaru Canada
Winner: Mark Richardson
Runner-Up: Michael Bettencourt
Environmental Journalism Award Presented by way of Nissan Canada
Winner: Mark Richardson
Runner-Up: Michael Bettencourt
Photography Award (posted) Presented by PFAFF Pirelli
Winner, Published: Jeff Wilson
First Runner Up: Peter Bleakney
Second Runner-Up: Kelly Taylor
Winner, Unpublished: Russell Purcell
First Runner-Up: Brian Harper
Second Runner-Up: Lesley Wimbush
CAA Road Safety Journalism Award Presented through CAA
Winner: Kelly Taylor
Runner-Up: Dale Johnson
Best Design Award Presented through Kia Canada
Winner (tie): Lee Bailee
Winner (tie): Michael Taylor
Runner-Up: Michael Bettencourt
Best Video Journalism Award supplied utilizing Integrated Automotive Experience.
Winner: Sami-Haj-Assaad
Runner-Up: Jesse Caron
The Julie Wilkinson Motorsport Journalism Award was presented with the aid of Kal Tire.
Winner: Lesly Wimbush
The Tony Sloga Award
Winner: Gregory Young, Mazda Canada
For 75 in large part undisturbed and uninhabited kilometers (47 miles), the West Coast Trail follows the rugged and stunningly beautiful West Coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, attracting heaps of visitors every 12 months throughout. It is a conventional Canadian adventure, in a real desert placing, and one of the planet’s pinnacle-rated trekking destinations. It is also within Pacific Rim National Park Reserve that is presently searching for entering from installing licensed groups that offer guided trekking trips along the remote trail. The final results of this discussion will be minimum standards that hiking publications must meet earlier than being accredited and allowed to take customers in this international-famous course through the centuries-vintage boreal rainforest, over cliffs, sandy seashores, and picturesque bedrock. Here is a precis of the expected result:
By 2009, Parks Canada will enforce a guide-to-client ratio of one:6, steady with policies for comparable “high-chance” sports, like sea kayaking. A team of guides – certainly one of which needs to be ahead manual even as the second one can be an assistant – is necessary to address emergencies once a set reaches an essential length thoroughly. This concept makes additionally perfect feel for the West Coast Trail because is it not only one of the maximum scenic and exciting, but also one of the maximum risky hiking endeavors: Even even though the trekking season is brief, as much as a hundred and in some years even more evacuations of injured and exhausted hikers are commonplace. In almost all such instances, it’s miles the unguided hiker that receives into problem obtainable at the same time as maximum clothes shops are pleased with immaculate protection data, a fact that demonstrates the already excessive stage of guiding high-quality supplied. Yet, a coincidence can manifest to every person at any time, regardless of the first-rate training and care.
Head courses will produce an Advanced Wilderness First Aid price tag, which requires no much less than eighty hours of schooling, plus a Backpacking Guide certificate issued with the aid of the ACMG (Association of Canadian Mountain Guides) upon a hit of the entirety of 14 days of education and tests. The national park’s management may also accept equivalents. Furthermore, head publications must prove that they own huge backcountry guiding revel in, backed up through at the least two references, and they have to have hiked the West Coast Trail at the least twice. They additionally ought to attend an obligatory orientation consultation before each trip. There continues to be a dialogue about the necessities for the assistant courses, which may not be as strict. The organization length will continue to be confined to most often hikers, consisting of publications. A filed risk control plan might be required from each outfitter. Courses must be prepared with either a cellular telephone or a satellite smartphone in a true working situation entirely with more batteries. This bundle will create one of the most advanced guiding standards everywhere within the international adventure travel enterprise.
The beneficiaries of this system will surely be the customers of industrial operators. While the clothes shop assists with the ride logistics and answers all questions before the ride, the two courses now not most effective make hiking the West Coast Trail a safer and less complicated, and greater amusing enjoy. The manual concept permits significantly extra time to take care of character needs. Paired with the modern-day device, cautiously organized and packed materials, and decreased weight through a food depot on the half of-manner factor, an experience along this path is now within attain of absolutely everyone who matches and has a healthy spirit of the journey, from teen to energetic senior. More and extra unmarried hikers, regularly ladies, are starting to embark on this challenge that they proportion with a small group of like-minded trekking enthusiasts from around the world.
