The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, are a group of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Crime Writers of Canada for the best Canadian crime and mystery writing published in the previous year. The award is presented during May in the year following publication.
Diane Anderson-Minshall is an American journalist and author best known for writing about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender subjects. She is the first female CEO of Pride Media. She is also the editorial director of The Advocate and Chill magazines, the editor-in-chief of HIV Plus magazine, while still contributing editor to OutTraveler. Diane co-authored the 2014 memoir Queerly Beloved about her relationship with her husband Jacob Anderson-Minshall throughout his gender transition.
This is a timeline of notable events in the history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Canada. For a broad overview of LGBT history in Canada see LGBT history in Canada.
David John Chariandy is a Canadian writer and academic, presently working as a professor of English literature at Simon Fraser University. His 2017 novel Brother won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and Toronto Book Award.
David Russell Williams is an indicted British-born Canadian serial rapist, murderer and former Air Force officer. He is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for 25 years for two murders, committed in November 2009 and January 2010.
Steve Lillebuen is a Canadian author and journalist. He divides his time between Australia and Canada.
Michael Wayne McGray is a Canadian serial killer convicted of killing seven individuals between 1985 and 1998. He claims to have killed eleven others during the same time period.
Mark Saunders is a Canadian politician and retired police officer who served as chief of police with the Toronto Police Service (TPS) from April 26, 2015 to July 31, 2020. Saunders announced he intends to run for mayor of Toronto in the 2023 by-election. He was the Progressive Conservative (PC) candidate in Don Valley West in the 2022 Ontario election.
Between 2010 and 2017, a total of eight men disappeared from the neighbourhood of Church and Wellesley, the gay village of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The investigation into the disappearances, taken up by two successive police task forces, eventually led to Bruce McArthur, a 66-year-old self-employed Toronto landscaper, whom they arrested on January 18, 2018. On January 29, 2019, McArthur pleaded guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder in Ontario Superior Court and was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment with no eligibility for parole for twenty-five years. McArthur is the most prolific known serial killer to have been active in Toronto, and the oldest known serial killer in Canada.
Alloura Wells was a Canadian transgender mixed-race woman who died in Toronto in June 2017. Her body was discovered in a ravine the following month, but she was not reported missing until 6 November 2017, and her badly decomposed body was not identified until 23 November.
Uncover is a Canadian investigative journalism podcast, launched in 2018 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Each season is hosted by a different journalist, and delves into Canadian and international crime stories.
Village of the Missing is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Michael Del Monte and released in 2019. An examination of the 2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides by Bruce McArthur in Toronto's Church and Wellesley gay village, the film premiered on March 22, 2019 as an episode of the CBC Television documentary series CBC Docs POV.
Peter Knegt is a Canadian writer, producer, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of four Canadian Screen Awards and his CBC Arts column Queeries received the 2019 Digital Publishing Award for best digital column in Canada.
Michael Del Monte is a Canadian documentary filmmaker best known for writing and directing the 2018 film Transformer.
Catching a Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur is a Canadian documentary film, directed by James Buddy Day and released in 2021.
Arshy Mann is a Canadian journalist who presents the Commons podcast for Canadaland.
Justin Ling is a Canadian investigative journalist. He is most noted as the author of the 2020 book Missing from the Village, about the 2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides by Bruce McArthur.
