SABEW Canada names Best in Business finalists

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”