The Montreal Press Club and its participating sponsors are pleased to announce the winners of the 2006 edition of The Robert Stewart Essay Competition for students in journalism, communications or public relations at a Canadian university or community college. The subject of this year's competition was "Responsibility". Terry Woo - a second year journalism student at Ryerson University in Toronto, won the First Prize of $2,000.00. The Second Prize of $1,500.00 was won by Chantel Hamilton - a third year student of Applied Communications in Professional Writing at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton. The Third Prize of $1,000.00 was won by Hubert Lapointe - a third year student in Information et Communications at Université Laval in Quebec City. The competition is intended to encourage the art of essay writing among a rising generation of communicators and to honor the memory of Robert Stewart - a member and officer of the Montreal Press Club who died in 2003. Stewart was a professional journalist, author and essayist whose work gained him widespread respect both inside and outside the journalistic community. Some of his best writing appeared in the Royal Bank Letter - a popular publication featuring brilliantly erudite essays which reached some 1 million readers every month in Canada and overseas. Examples of this work can be found on the RBC Financial Group website at rbc.com.

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