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Breakenridge, currently online content editor of the Calgary Sun, will start his new role in Edmonton on June 23. 

Whitehorse freelance journalist Karen McColl will use the bursary to fund a canoe expedition to document the impact of development on remote communities along the Mackenzie River. 

Libin, the managing editor of news at the National Post, will head the Financial Post. He replaces Grant Ellis, who left earlier this year for BNN.

The radio station’s news director, Richard Cloutier, and Kathy Kennedy are the new hosts of Winnipeg Morning News, which launched on June 2. The pair replaced popular host Hal Anderson, whom the station let go in May. 

The Globe and Mail’s chief Quebec correspondent, Sophie Cousineau, is leaving the newspaper to become chief of staff to Caisse de depot et placement CEO Michel Sabia. 

Egan, who covers the Canadian economy and central banking from Ottawa, is leaving Reuters to join the Bank of Canada as a senior communication consultant. 

Global News Washington correspondent Robin Stickley will return to Vancouver to anchor Early News on Global BC. She will replace Deb Hope who retired earlier this year.

Bellrichard, an associate producer at CBC Vancouver and a web developer at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, is the winner of the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Aboriginal journalism fellowship. 

Owens becomes the first female editor-in-chief of a Canadian national newspaper. She starts in her new role on June 9. 

Nash, who spent 37 years with the public broadcaster, died at his home in Toronto.