The Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) announced the winners of its 12th annual Best in Business Awards on Thursday evening at an event in Toronto. Photos from the event by Grow Digital can be found here.
The Globe and Mail led all outlets with seven gold awards and five silvers. Bloomberg News and the Toronto Star each earned two gold awards and two silvers. Other winners included The Logic, CBC, Reuters and Canadian Lawyer.
Former Globe and Mail personal finance columnist Rob Carrick was the winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award. Through his subject-matter expertise, editorial advocacy and empathy for people at every stage of their financial journey, Carrick has built an enviable level of audience loyalty and engagement.
Irene Galea from The Globe and Mail was awarded the 2025 Jeff Sanford Best Young Journalist Award. In a field of exceptional early career journalists, Galea stood out for the consistency, diligence and impact of her coverage.
SABEW Canada’s Best in Business Awards are the only Canadian journalism awards dedicated exclusively to recognizing exemplary works of business journalism. This year’s awards honoured work published during the 2025 calendar year.
The awards are made possible through the generous support of professional-development sponsor Fidelity Investments Canada.
Below are the winners for this year’s SABEW Canada Best in Business Awards:
Beat Reporting
Gold: Kate Helmore — Agriculture and food policy, The Globe and Mail
Silver: Kenyon Wallace — The business of health care, The Toronto Star
Honourable Mention: Sophia Harris — Retail, CBC News
Breaking News Coverage
Gold: Day one of tariffs — Globe and Mail staff, The Globe and Mail
Silver: Air Canada flight attendants strike, defy government — Allison Lampert, Kyaw Soe Oo, Promit Mukherjee, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Reuters Canada
Honourable Mention: Hudson’s Bay: the beginning of the end — Susan Krashinsky Robertson, The Globe and Mail
Commentary
Gold: Kevin Carmichael, The Logic
Silver: Adam Radwanski, The Globe and Mail
Honourable Mention: Martin Patriquin, The Logic
Editorial Newsletter
Gold: Living Here — Amber Shortt, The Toronto Star
Silver: Retire Rich — Meera Raman, The Globe and Mail
Honourable Mention: Christine Dobby — Bay Street Edition, Bloomberg News
Feature, Long-form
Gold: How opioid deaths are hollowing out the construction industry — Jason Kirby, The Globe and Mail
Silver: How TD became America’s most convenient bank for money launderers — Ari Altstedter, Christine Dobby, David Voreacos, Tom Schoenberg, Bloomberg News
Honourable Mention: How to steal a house — Ari Altstedter, Bloomberg News
Feature, Short-form
Gold: The last of the old masters at the Ontario Food Terminal — Jake Edmiston, The Toronto Star
Silver: Banking on boring businesses — Meera Raman, Julia Stratton, The Globe and Mail
Honourable Mention: Uranium fever collides with industry’s dark past in Navajo country — Jacob Lorinc, Bloomberg News
General Excellence, Reporter at a Small Publication
Jessica Mach, Canadian Lawyer
Investigative
Gold: How TD became America’s most convenient bank for money launderers — Ari Altstedter, Christine Dobby, David Voreacos, Tom Schoenberg, Bloomberg News
Silver: How preferred pharmacy networks are dictating access to medications — Chris Hannay, Clare O’Hara, Susan Krashinsky Robertson, The Globe and Mail
Honourable Mention: Meta’s inside job — Kathryn Blaze Baum, Alexandra Posadzki, The Globe and Mail
Multimedia
Gold: Shoebox condos — Erica Alini, Jeremy Agius, The Globe and Mail
Silver: The price of pride — Ana Pereira, McKenna Hart, The Toronto Star
Honourable Mention: This little brown building in downtown Toronto helps keep the Internet running — Fred Lum, James Bradshaw, The Globe and Mail
Package
Gold: The fall of a Canadian business icon — James Griffiths, Susan Krashinsky Robertson, The Globe and Mail
Silver: Canada-U.S. relationship rupture — Ari Altstedter, Derek DeCloet, Jacob Lorinc, Randy Thanthong-Knight, Thomas Seal, Bloomberg News
Honourable Mention: Quantum — Ivan Semeniuk, Pippa Norman, Sean Silcoff, The Globe and Mail
Personal Finance and Investing
Gold: Retirement and financial planning — Meera Raman, The Globe and Mail
Silver: Debanking — Erica Alini, Alexandra Posadzki, Stefanie Marotta, The Globe and Mail
Honourable Mention: What Trump’s trade war means for Canadian wallets — Serah Louis, Financial Post
Podcast
Gold: Cost of Living: When it comes to inflation, it’s personal — Danielle Nerman, Paul Haavardsrud, Leah Hendry, Jennifer Keene, CBC Radio
Profile
Gold: How Patrick Dovigi accrued billions in debt, had his house shot at, and still managed to win back investors — Robyn Doolittle, Tim Kiladze, The Globe and Mail
Silver: Meet the Quebecer leading the human resistance against AI — Martin Patriquin, The Logic
Honourable Mention: Can this man make you love Loblaw again? — Jake Edmiston, The Toronto Star
Scoop
Gold: Carney drops retaliatory tariffs — Brian Platt, Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg News
Silver: Shopify’s sales fraud scandal — Aleksandra Sagan, The Logic
Honourable Mention: Ottawa’s ultimatum on Anglo-Teck deal — Niall McGee, The Globe and Mail
Jeff Sanford Best Young Journalist
Irene Galea
Outstanding Achievement Award
Rob Carrick
