The Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) today announced the finalists for its 12th annual Best in Business Awards competition, recognizing outstanding Canadian business reporting published and produced in 2025.
The Canada Best in Business Awards received 226 entries. The awards are made possible by the individuals and organizations who submitted entries, and all the judges who volunteered their time to support excellence in business journalism.
The winners will be announced at an in-person event celebrating the finalists on Thursday, May 28, at 7 p.m. The celebration will take place at The Pilot in Toronto, located near Yonge/Bloor subway station, with paid parking available nearby. Click here to purchase a ticket.
Below are the finalists for this year’s Canada Best in Business Awards:
Beat Reporting
- Kenyon Wallace — The business of health care, The Toronto Star
- Kate Helmore — Agriculture and food policy, The Globe and Mail
- Sophia Harris — Retail, CBC News
Breaking News Coverage
- Air Canada flight attendants strike, defy government — Allison Lampert, Kyaw Soe Oo, Promit Mukherjee, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Reuters Canada
- Hudson’s Bay: the beginning of the end — Susan Krashinsky Robertson, The Globe and Mail
- Day one of tariffs — Globe and Mail staff, The Globe and Mail
Commentary
- Martin Patriquin, The Logic
- Adam Radwanski, The Globe and Mail
- Kevin Carmichael, The Logic
Editorial Newsletter
- Retire Rich — Meera Raman, The Globe and Mail
- Living Here — Amber Shortt, The Toronto Star
- Christine Dobby — Bay Street Edition, Bloomberg News
Feature, Long-form
- How TD became America’s most convenient bank for money launderers — Ari Altstedter, Christine Dobby, David Voreacos, Tom Schoenberg, Bloomberg News
- How to steal a house — Ari Altstedter, Bloomberg News
- How opioid deaths are hollowing out the construction industry — Jason Kirby, The Globe and Mail
Feature, Short-form
- The last of the old masters at the Ontario Food Terminal — Jake Edmiston, The Toronto Star
- Uranium fever collides with industry’s dark past in Navajo country — Jacob Lorinc, Bloomberg News
- Banking on boring businesses — Meera Raman, Julia Stratton, The Globe and Mail
General Excellence, Reporter at a Small Publication
- Josh Scott, Betakit
- Madison McLauchlan, Betakit
- Jessica Mach, Canadian Lawyer
Investigative
- How TD became America’s most convenient bank for money launderers — Ari Altstedter, Christine Dobby, David Voreacos, Tom Schoenberg, Bloomberg News
- Meta’s inside job — Kathryn Blaze Baum, Alexandra Posadzki, The Globe and Mail
- How preferred pharmacy networks are dictating access to medications — Chris Hannay, Clare O’Hara, Susan Krashinsky Robertson, The Globe and Mail
Multimedia
- The price of pride — Ana Pereira, McKenna Hart, The Toronto Star
- Shoebox condos — Erica Alini, Jeremy Agius, The Globe and Mail
- This little brown building in downtown Toronto helps keep the Internet running — Fred Lum, James Bradshaw, The Globe and Mail
Package
- The fall of a Canadian business icon — James Griffiths, Susan Krashinsky Robertson, The Globe and Mail
- Quantum — Ivan Semeniuk, Pippa Norman, Sean Silcoff, The Globe and Mail
- Canada-U.S. relationship rupture — Ari Altstedter, Derek DeCloet, Jacob Lorinc, Randy Thanthong-Knight, Thomas Seal, Bloomberg News
Personal Finance and Investing
- Debanking — Erica Alini, Alexandra Posadzki, Stefanie Marotta, The Globe and Mail
- What Trump’s trade war means for Canadian wallets — Serah Louis, Financial Post
- Retirement and Financial Planning — Meera Raman, The Globe and Mail
Profile
- Can this man make you love Loblaw again? — Jake Edmiston, The Toronto Star
- How Patrick Dovigi accrued billions in debt, had his house shot at, and still managed to win back investors — Robyn Doolittle, Tim Kildaze, The Globe and Mail
- Meet the Quebecer leading the human resistance against AI — Martin Patriquin, The Logic
Scoop
- Carney drops retaliatory tariffs — Brian Platt, Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg News
- Ottawa’s ultimatum on Anglo-Teck deal — Niall McGee, The Globe and Mail
- Shopify’s sales fraud scandal — Aleksandra Sagan, The Logic
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