Since joining "W5", Haines has won and been nominated for numerous awards for her national and international long-format investigative documentaries. In 2019, she was awarded the RTDNA for 'Investigative Journalism' for her one-hour documentary entitled"W5: No Witnesses", an exposé of a global sex abuse cover-up within the Jehovah's Witnesses sect. In 2009 she was also awarded the "Innocence Canada Tracey Tyler Award for Justice for the Wrongly Convicted" for "W5: An Indigenous man's quest to clear his name". In 2020, Haines has won "Canadian Screen Awards" for 'Best Host or Interviewer, News or Information' for the "W5" investigation "The Narco Riviera". The Academy described the documentary as "A powerful investigation into drug cartel violence in Mexico and the risk posed to tourists, including Canadians, who travel south seeking sun and sand, but who may find their lives at risk. The documentary includes an exclusive, chilling interview with a cartel leader – a risky and difficult to organize journalistic coup. Following the broadcast Mexican authorities stepped up their investigations, eventually arresting drug cartel members in the ‘Narco Riviera’". Haines was also awarded the 2020 "Canadian Screen Awards" 'Best News or Information Program' for "W5: The Baby in the Snow". This "W5" investigation into who left 11-month old Dusty Bowers to die in the s forced the Ontario Provincial Police to reopen this 30-year-old cold case.