Book awards

  • Canada-Japan Book Prize (co-winner), for the book Tokyo, My Everest (1996)
  • Edna Staebler Award for Creative Nonfiction (top-five finalist), for the book Waltzing the Tango (2001)

Magazine awards

  • Kenneth R. Wilson Award (Silver), for the pharmacy article Are You Doing Drugs? (1996)
  • Canadian Nurses Association Media Award for the health article Live and Undrugged (2000)
  • National Magazine Award (Silver), for the public-health article A Real Lifesaver (2002)
  • National Magazine Award (Silver), for the public-health article The Cost of Conception (2003)
  • Kenneth R. Wilson Award (Gold), for the health article More than Skin Deep (2003)
  • Kenneth R. Wilson Award (Silver), for the education article In Character (2009)

Grants

  • Ontario Arts Council, for Tokyo, My Everest (1995)
  • Canada Council, for Waltzing the Tango (2000)
  • Ontario Arts Council, for Waltzing the Tango (2000)
  • Ontario Arts Council, for What’s Left of Him (novel in progress) (2018)