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The Globe and Mail has won four 2006 National Newspaper Awards — more than any other news organization in the country.

The newspaper had 13 nominations for the 58th annual version of the prestigious awards — also the highest number among Canadian news organizations for the eighth year in a row.

The Globe winners, announced Friday evening in Winnipeg, were: Brent Jang, Paul Waldie, Lisa Rochon, Omar el Akkad, Greg McArthur and a group of more than two dozen reporters, researchers photographers and editors who contributed to a project on cancer patients.

Special Project

This is the first win for The Globe and Mail in the special project category.

The work of more than two dozen reporters, researchers, photographers and editors, it focussed on the lives of cancer patients, national policy failures, and our hopes and fears for the future.

It began with a moving portrait of cancer patients who went through the cancer care system on a single day: June 15, 2006. Called A Day in the Life, the first piece was written by Erin Anderssen, who spent five months in regular contact with about 100 cancer patients.

Readers will remember the brave Shelby, whose picture appeared on our front page in November, beaming and dancing as she approached death at age 3.

The Globe's entire four-week special project on cancer, including all stories, photo galleries, narrated slideshows, discussions and interactives can be read here in a special online presentation first created for this project.

Lisa Rochon, Arts and Entertainment

Lisa Rochon is the Globe's architecture columnist. She also won the award last year for her continuing coverage on architecture.

In one recent article she wrote: "To my mind, cities are made up of continuities and discontinuities. Architecture tames a city. It can create order from disorder. But, without moments of civic grandeur that stand apart from the rest, a city loses itself to systems of sameness."

Ms. Rochon's latest columns can be read here.

Brent Jang and Paul Waldie, Business

Brent Jang and Paul Waldie wrote the definitive piece on what happened behind the scenes in the WestJet spy case , based on dozens of high-level WestJet e-mails obtained by The Globe and Mail from court filings.

They were filed as part of a bitter, two-year legal battle over allegations WestJet used surreptitious tactics — dubbed "007 Project" — to gather confidential information about its rivals Air Canada, Jetsgo and CanJet Airlines.

Omar el Akkad and Greg McArthur, Investigations

Omar el Akkad and Greg McArthur worked day and night searching semi-private blogs for background information on the 17 Muslim men charged in an alleged terror plot.

Among other things, they wrote in Hateful chatter behind the veil that the wives of four of the central figures arrested last month were among the most active on the website, sharing, among other things, their passion for holy war, disgust at virtually every aspect of non-Muslim society and a hatred of Canada.

THE OTHER GLOBE NOMINEES

Sean Fine, Editorials

Stephanie Nolen, International

Stephanie Nolen, Beats

Michael Valpy, Politics

Brian Gable, Editorial Cartoons

Jacquie McNish, Business

Jan Wong, Long Features

Robert Everett-Green, Arts

Cinders McLeod, Presentation

THE OTHER 2006 NNA WINNERS

La Presse of Montreal: 3

Toronto Star: 3

Ottawa Citizen: 3

Kingston Whig-Standard: 2

The Canadian Press: 1

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix: 1

The National Post: 1

The Record: 1

Journal de Montreal: 1