Freedom Magazine Wins Top Prize for Investigative Journalism

DENVER: It was an article that begged a burning question: “Was it North America’s Crime of the Century?”

At the National Federation of Press Women’s annual conference and awards presentation, Freedom Magazine was awarded as the 1st place winner in the category “Writing for the Web” for its feature article, an exposé on thousands of the Duplessis Orphans” who died or disappeared in Quebec’s psychiatric institutions.

“Naming themselves after former Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis,” Freedom Magazine states, “many of these individuals were not orphans at all, but had been born to poor families which had difficulty caring for them, or to unwed mothers. Although no official tallies were kept, over a span of several decades, it has been estimated they numbered in the tens of thousands and perhaps as many as 100,000. Duplessis was Quebec’s premier from 1936 to 1939 and from 1944 to 1959. Due to human rights violations, electoral fraud, use of state powers against critics and other abuses, Duplessis’ tenure has been called ‘the Great Darkness.’”

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