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Following its nomination for Excellence in Journalism last month, HuffPost Canada is celebrating another win this time for business reporter Rachel Mendleson's inaugural labor reporting which earned an award from the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) for her feature that explored the links between income inequality and the decline of unions in Canada.

The award, presented Saturday at the CAJ's annual gala in Toronto, honors stories that advance public understanding of labor issues.

Mendleson traveled to St. Thomas, Ontario, where she documented the struggle of workers from that city's shuttered Ford assembly plant to find good jobs. She used their plight to examine the broader question of what impact the disintegration of organized labor has had on Canada's growing income gap.

The story was featured prominently in HuffPost's ongoing "Mind The Gap" series, edited by Daniel Tencer, which chronicles this country's income divide. We're proud of the work Rachel has done on the "Mind The Gap" series and it reinforces our commitment to cover stories that fall outside of mainstream business news.

The award is one of many that The Huffington Post has won in the last month including a Pulitzer Prize for its series Beyond the Battlefield, honored in the National Reporting field and a British Media Award naming HuffPost UK's Editor-in-Chief as Media Innovator of the Year.

.@HuffPostCanada Reporter Wins Journalism Award aol.it/Io0gTS

- AOL PR (@AOLPR) April 30, 2012

The newest video stories on MAKERS.com spotlight business legend Meg Whitman, who shares lessons learned from running eBay, running for political office and now heading Hewlett-Packard. Then hear Pulitzer-Prize winner Alice Walker, best known for "The Color Purple," reflect on living through poverty and racism, her mother as a role model and the positive effect of the women's movement on the men in her life.

Meg Whitman is President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard. She served as President and CEO of eBay from 1998 to 2008, overseeing the growth of this small company from 30 employees to 15,000, and from $4 million in annual revenue to approximately $8 billion. Fortune magazine has named her among the top-five Most Powerful Women on more than one occasion.

Novelist, poet and activist Alice Walker is widely known for her novel "The Color Purple," for which she won the Pulitzer-Prize for Fiction -- the first African American woman to win this award. Walker was active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and continues to be a strong activist for women, anti-apartheid and the anti-nuclear war movement. Her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages and has sold more than 15 million copies.

Learn more about Walker by watching this video:

Today, The Huffington Post received a Pulitzer prize for its series Beyond the Battlefield, honored in the National Reporting field. Beyond the Battlefield is an exploration of the physical and emotional challenges, victories and setbacks that catastrophically wounded soldiers encounter after returning home from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. The ten-part series is a tribute worthy of the men and women whose lives it chronicles.

Beyond the Battlefield is the result of several months of reporting and scores of interviews by the HuffPost's veteran military correspondent, David Wood. It is a deeply-felt, hard-won and wide-ranging exploration of what it means for a soldier to suffer extraordinary, disabling wounds -- and how friends, families, and hometowns, as well as the military and medical communities, adjust and respond to the physical and emotional struggles these wounded warriors endure.

Beyond the Battlefield, which was created and distributed using BookBrewer,can be purchased on Amazon, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. For those of you who would like to offer help of your own to severely wounded and disabled soldiers, please visit our Impact page, where you will find a list of resources that can help make that possible. To view the full list of 2012 Pulitzer winners and finalists click here.

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- AOL PR (@AOLPR) April 16, 2012