Kim Bolan

Kim Rosemary Bolan (born 1959)[1] is a Canadian journalist who has been a reporter at the Vancouver Sun since her journalism career began in 1984.

She has reported on minority, women's, education, and social services issues; wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and Afghanistan;[2] Sikh extremism, and the bombing and trials related to Air India Flight 182.

She was a writer in high school, contributing to the Comox District Free Press and she sent stories on the bus to Victoria to be published in the daily Times Colonist newspaper.

[10] The award is given to honour people who have demonstrated a substantial and long-lasting contribution to civil liberties issues in British Columbia and Canada.

[13] In February 2007, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper caused "a political storm" by trying to read part of a Bolan article into the record of the House of Commons of Canada.