Honours
Nash was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1989, and a Member of the Order of Ontario in 1998. He received the President's Award of the Radio-Television News Directors Association in 1990, the John Drainie Award "for distinguished contributions to broadcasting" in 1995, and was inducted to the Canadian News Hall of Fame in 1996. He holds Honourary J.D. degrees from the University of Toronto (1993), Brock University (1995), the University of Regina, (1996), and Loyalist College (1997). In 1992 he was the Max Bell Professor at the University of Regina School of Journalism.
On June 22, 2006, Nash accepted a lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. He prepared a speech which was read by his wife (Nash suffers from Parkinson's Disease), which included harsh words for the CBC, due to its planned simulcast of American network ABC's The One: Making a Music Star, which bumped The National back by one hour in Ontario and Quebec on Tuesday nights. The program flopped and was cancelled after two weeks.
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