SABEW Canada announces Best in Business finalists

The Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced the finalists for its 10th annual Best in Business Awards competition, recognizing outstanding Canadian business reporting published and produced in 2023.

This year, the BIB Canada Awards received close to 200 entries, just shy of the record number received last year.

These awards would not be possible without the incredible work of business journalists at organizations large and small across the country, to all who have taken the time to submit articles, podcast and multimedia output for consideration, and, of course, our esteemed volunteer judges.

The SABEW BIB Canada 2023 winners will be announced on Monday, June 24. The venue is The Pilot in Toronto, handily located near Yonge/Bloor subway station, with paid parking available nearby. Click here to purchase a ticket.

Here (in alphabetical order by name and media organization) are the finalists for this year’s BIB Canada awards:

Beat Reporting

• Christopher Reynolds – Airlines, The Canadian Press
• Niall McGee – Mining, The Globe and Mail
• Rachelle Younglai – Real Estate, The Globe and Mail

Breaking News Coverage

• Traynor Ridge meltdown – Derek DeCloet, Esteban Duarte, Christine Dobby, Layan Odeh, Bloomberg News
• Alberta’s moratorium on renewable energy projects – Emma Graney, Jeffrey Jones, Carrie Tait, The Globe and Mail
• OSFI takes control of Silicon Valley Bank’s Canadian unit – Stefanie Marotta, Sean Silcoff, James Bradshaw, Tim Kiladze, Andrew Willis, The Globe and Mail

Commentary

• David Milstead, The Globe and Mail
• Adam Radwanski – Climate policy and politics, The Globe and Mail
• Kevin Carmichael, The Logic

Editorial Newsletter

• The Logic Briefing – The Logic newsroom, The Logic
• MoneyFit – Justin Dallaire, Lisa Hannam, Jaclyn Law, MoneySense
• TLDR – Ben Mathis-Lilley, Devin Gordon, Stacey Woods, Sarah Rieger, Ambrose Martos, Ciara Rickard, Clare Douglas, Sara Black McCulloch, Mohini Tailor, Matthew Karasz, Jared Sullivan, Peter Martin, Kat Angus, Devin Friedman, Wealthsimple Media

Feature – Long-form

• “Chip Wilson’s race against time” – Ari Altstedter, Bloomberg News
• “Indigenous economic reconciliation and The Ring of Fire” – Niall McGee, Fred Lum, The Globe and Mail
• “Doom, Inc.” – Claire Brownell, The Logic

Feature – Short-form

• “How fuel giant Parkland is adapting to a low-carbon world” – Jason Kirby, The Globe and Mail
• “Canopy Growth’s downsizing leaves Smiths Falls in limbo” – Vanmala Subramaniam, The Globe and Mail
• “Canadian farmers dream of blockchain sheep” – David Reevely, The Logic

Investigative

• “A 12,000-barrel oil pipeline spill exposes years of lax oversight” – Robert Tuttle, Ari Natter, Bloomberg News
• “Canadian corporate accountability, human rights, and a failed watchdog” – Tavia Grant, The Globe and Mail
• “Work forced” – Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Rachel Mendleson, The Toronto Star

Multimedia

• “Concrete solutions” – Kyle Bakx, CBC News
• “AI deepfakes” – Joe Castaldo, Patrick Dell, Jeremy Agius, The Globe and Mail

Package

• “Following the money in the fight against human trafficking” – Rita Trichur, The Globe and Mail
• “Women lead here” – Deborah Aarts, Report on Business Magazine, The Globe and Mail
• “This is what economic reconciliation looks like” – Susan Nerberg, Report on Business Magazine, The Globe and Mail

Personal Finance and Investing

• “The financial toll of Canada’s housing crisis” – Erica Alini, The Globe and Mail
• “Short changed” – Tim Shufelt, Clare O’Hara, Irene Galea, The Globe and Mail
• “Saving for retirement” – David Aston, The Globe and Mail

Podcast

• “COMMONS: Monopoly” – Arshy Mann, Jordan Cornish, and Noor Azrieh, Canadaland
• “Cost of Living” Season 5 – Paul Haavardsrud, Jennifer Keene, Danielle Nerman, Ellis Choe, Caroline Ferris, Tracy Johnson, CBC Radio
• “Millennial Money” – Ghada Alsharif, Kevin Sexton, Andrea Varsany, Julia De Laurentiis Johnston, Sean Pattendon

Profile

• “Chip Wilson’s race against time” – Ari Altstedter
• “The anti-monopoly man” – Jake Edmiston
• “Pierre Fitzgibbon is on a mission to supercharge Quebec’s economy — rules be damned” – Martin Patriquin, The Logic

Scoop

• “Volkswagen” – Brian Platt, Bloomberg News
• “Investigation into Sustainable Development Technology Canada” – Jeffrey Jones, The Globe and Mail
• “Toronto’s WNBA dream dead: The inside story of how the MLSE walked away” – Richard Warnica, The Toronto Star