Awards
- ACTRA award for best radio documentary for coverage of the Jonestown massacre, 1979
- Canadian Authors Association Best Non Fiction book for Welcome Home, 1993
- Rooke Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Writing: Trent University, 1994–95
- Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, "Home From Vinyl Cafe", 1999
- Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, "Vinyl Cafe Unplugged", 2001
- Canadian Author's Association Jubilee Award, for "Vinyl Cafe Diaries", 2004
- Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, "Secrets From the Vinyl Cafe" 2007
- In 2011, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to Canadian culture as a storyteller and broadcaster, as well as for his many charitable activities".
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