SUN COLUMNIST A FINALIST FOR MAJOR LITERARY AWARD

Vancouver Sun legal affairs columnist Ian Mulgrew was named a finalist
Monday for this year's National Business Book Award, one of Canada's
most prestigious literary awards.

Mulgrew's book, Bud Inc.: Inside Canada's Marijuana Industry (Random
House of Canada 2005), sheds light on the multi-billion-dollar
underground industry.

"I am very happy the judges thought the book worthy," said Mulgrew. "I
wrote this book because I thought it was time Canadians looked at the
harmful repercussions of the marijuana prohibition.

"The costs of maintaining this prohibition are so high, I believe it's
time for a debate about its efficacy and about other ways of
regulating and controlling marijuana -- the evidence of the last
century is clear: Our laws are not working."

Mulgrew has written numerous books, including Unholy terror: The Sikhs and
international terrorism (Key Porter Books 1988); Final Payoff: The True Cost
of Convicting Clifford Robert Olson (Bantam-Seal Books 1989); and Who Killed
Cindy James? (Bantam-Seal 1990).

He was the ghost-writer for Webster! An Autobiography of Jack Webster
(Douglas & McIntyre 1991), and has co-authored two other books, Amazon
Extreme, and Lost in Mongolia.

The winner of the $20,000 award will be announced April 20 in
Toronto.

Sun reporter Glenn Bohn was also named Monday as one of five
recipients of the Jack Webster Foundation Poynter Institute
Fellowship. The fellowship provides up to $3,000 per fellow to attend
a journalism seminar at the famed Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg,
Fla.

As well, the Coalition for Canadian Astronomy cited former Vancouver
Sun intern Richard Chu for "outstanding reporting on the science of
astronomy" for a June 20, 2005 Sun story, entitled "Arctic wildlife
protects universe's secrets."