World Press Freedom Day Awards Luncheon 2023 – May 3, 2023

World Press Freedom Canada (WPFC) hosts its twenty-second annual luncheon to mark World Press Freedom Day. Veteran award-winning journalist Anna Maria Tremonti delivers a keynote address and joins Irene Gentle, vice-president of inclusion and strategic partnerships at TorStar and former editor in chief of the Toronto Star, for a discussion on online hate aimed at female and marginalized journalists. WPFC is also presenting awards to journalists and an editorial cartoonist at the luncheon. Chris Bittle, parliamentary secretary to the minister of Canadian heritage, and Christa Dickenson, president of CPAC, also deliver remarks. This year is the 30th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly proclaiming World Press Freedom Day in 1993. (no interpretation)