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Kenyon Wallace

Investigative Reporter

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Kenyon Wallace is an Investigative reporter with the Toronto Star. He has reported on numerous public interest issues, including secret mistakes made by health care providers, unscrupulous driving schools, lawyers who steal from their clients, delays in Ontario’s program to detect rare genetic diseases in newborns, and the number of undocumented homeless individuals dying on GTA streets.

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Toronto

Reporting Focus:

Investigations

Honours and Awards :

Nomination — Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, Labour Reporting Category (2022)Nomination — Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, Data Journalism Category (2021)Nomination — Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, Data Journalism Category (2020)Winner (Team) — Digital Publishing Awards, Best News Coverage Gold Medal (2021)Winner (Team) — Digital Publishing Awards, Best Digital Editorial Package Silver Medal (2020)Winner — National Newspaper Award, Business (2020)Nomination (Team) — Canadian Journalism Foundation Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism (2019)Nomination (Team) — Canadian Journalism Foundation, News Literacy Award (2018)Winner (Team) — Michener Award (2014)Nomination (Team) — Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, Open Media Category (2013)Winner (Team) — National Newspaper Award, Long Feature (2012)Nomination — National Newspaper Award, Breaking News (2009)

Articles by Kenyon Wallace

Helen Trinka, who believes she would not be here today if it were not for the help she received at the Minden ER, attends the candlelight vigil on the evening of the closure.

Canada

The death of an Ontario ER: Anger, tears — and worries for what a cottage-country closure means for the future of emergency care

Haliburton Highlands Health Services is closing its emergency department in Minden, Ont.

Canada

With the race on to save a cottage country ER, officials reveal their case for shutting it

GTA

How does a convicted killer escape from a Canadian prison? It might be easier than you think

Canada

Why is this ER in cottage country closing? Doctors, health officials say they’re baffled

Minden resident Sandra Bradley, along with her husband Richard Bradley, is filing a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario over the planned closure of Minden's emergency department.

Canada

To save her local emergency department, this ailing Ontario woman filed a human-rights complaint

Pink eye (conjunctivitis) is an inflammation or infection of the transparent membrane that lines your eyelid and part of your eyeball.

Canada

Those itchy, red, watery eyes could be allergies. They could also be a sign of COVID

Gordon Lightfoot performs his classic hits at the McPherson Playhouse in Victoria, B.C., in October 2017.

Canada

Articles by Kenyon Wallace

The death of an Ontario ER: Anger, tears — and worries for what a cottage-country closure means for the future of emergency care

With the race on to save a cottage country ER, officials reveal their case for shutting it

How does a convicted killer escape from a Canadian prison? It might be easier than you think

Why is this ER in cottage country closing? Doctors, health officials say they’re baffled

To save her local emergency department, this ailing Ontario woman filed a human-rights complaint

Those itchy, red, watery eyes could be allergies. They could also be a sign of COVID

Those stories and that voice. Why Gordon Lightfoot’s music hit home for me and so many Canadians