Updated on: May 28, 2026
H. Ward Smith Award
A cross-Canada road trip. A coffee-stained award copy. A Nobel Prize complaint from a fellow scienti...
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Published on: May 13, 2026
Director’s Award
No red carpet. No Academy. Just 100 colleagues at the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto. When D...
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Published on: April 28, 2026
Derome Award, Prix du Merite
Only ten forensic scientists have received this honour in 25 years. Four received it posthumously. T...
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Updated on: August 11, 2025
The Breathalyzer & Police – A Tribute to Robert F....
On this day one hundred years ago, Robert F. Borkenstein, the inventor of the Breathalyzer and inter...
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Updated on: August 11, 2015
Wilfred Derome: North America’s First Forensic La...
One hundred years ago, this past July, while the flames of the First World War were sweeping across ...
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Updated on: August 11, 2014
EMP Widmark – 125th Anniversary (1889-1945)
Although I just published a blog on June 11th, today is a special day in the lives of forensic toxic...
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