SABEW Canada named Wednesday the finalists for its Best in Business competition.
They are:
Audio or Visual Storytelling
- Kyle Bakx (CBC News), “Portrait of retail survival: Inside a strip mall during
COVID-19” - Gabriel Friedman (Financial Post), “Down to Business: ‘No science’ behind
lobster dispute” - Rob Carrick, Roma Luciw, Kiran Rana, Hannah Sung, Amanda Cupido and TK Matunda (The Globe and Mail), “Stress Test”
Beat reporting
- Josh O’Kane (The Globe and Mail), small business
- Aleksandra Sagan (The Logic), retail
- Theo Argitis (Bloomberg), Canadian finance
Breaking news
- Wendy Stueck, Brent Jang, Les Perreaux, Eric Andrew-Gee, Eric Atkins, Evan Annett, John Sopinski and Jimmy Jeong (The Globe and Mail), “Coastal Gaslink protests and rail blockades”
- Rosa Saba (Toronto Star), “CERB confusion”
- Jake Edmiston, Joe O’Connor, Kevin Carmichael and Terence Corcoran (Financial Post), “Michael McCain’s anti-Trump tweets”
Commentary
- Rita Trichur (The Globe and Mail)
- David Skok (The Logic)
- Eric Reguly (The Globe and Mail)
Editorial newsletter
- Daily Briefing (The Logic), The Logic staff
- Posthaste (Financial Post)m Yadullah Hussain and Pamela Heaven
- Cannabis Canada Weekly (BNN Bloomberg), David George-Cosh and Shane McNeil
Feature (long)
- Eric Reguly (The Globe and Mail), “Next stop, Ottawa: Mark Carney comes home”
- Natalie Obiko Pearson (Bloomberg), “How Huawei won 5G”
- Joe Castaldo (The Globe and Mail), “Despite a pandemic, mega-mall pioneers bet on American Dream”
Feature (short)
- David Milstead and Bill Curry (The Globe and Mail), “CPPIB’s fracking operation in U.S. raises questions”
- Anita Balakrishnan (Canadian Press), “The Year in Labour”
- Rachelle Younglai, Frances Bula and Michael Awad (The Globe and Mail), “Will the pandemic reshape landmark high streets?”
Investigative
- Natalie Obiko Pearson, Danielle Bochove and David Herbling (Bloomberg Businessweek), “How a Charity Superstar Innovated Its Way to Political Scandal”
- James McLeod (Financial Post), “Double-double tracking: How Tim Hortons knows where you sleep, work and vacation”
- Tavia Grant, Kathryn Blaze Baum and Carrie Tait (The Globe and Mail), “Canada’s vulnerable food sector workers”
Package
- Tara Deschamps (Canadian Press), diversity series
- Kait Bolongaro, Shelly Hagan and Sandrine Rastello (Bloomberg), “Canada immigration upheaval”
- Nathan Caddell, Michael McCullough, Matt O’Grady and Nick Rockel (BCBusiness Magazine), “Making It Work”
Personal finance and investing
- Victor Ferreira (Financial Post), “Money to be made: Meet the new retail investors flooding the market amid the pandemic”
- Divya Balji, Jacqueline Thorpe, Susanne Barton, Michael Bellusci and Eddit van der Walt (Bloomberg), “COVID market crash”
- Rob Carrick (The Globe and Mail), pandemic personal finance updates
Profile
- Alanna Mitchell (Report on Business magazine), “Women Lead Here: Eira Thomas”
- David Parkinson (The Globe and Mail), “Crush it: Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says a crisis is no time for half measures”
- Brent Jang (The Globe and Mail), “Chasing the hydrogen dream: Ballard on quest to transform long-haul transportation”
Scoop
- Murad Hemmadi (The Logic), “Palantir and the pandemic”
- Andrew Willis and Jeffrey Jones (The Globe and Mail), “Aimco’s errors”
- David George-Cosh (BNN Bloomberg), “Aphria, Tilray said to be in advanced merger talks”
Trade article
- Garry Marr (CoStar News), “Canadians shuffle off to Buffalo looking for better property returns”
- Helen Burnett-Nichols (Globe Advisor), “New advisors find ways to make a go of it during the pandemic”
- Daniel Fish (Precedent Magazine), “In recovery”
