The nominees for SABEW Canada’s 4th Annual Best in Business Awards (in no particular order):
Breaking news
Bloomberg, Bank of Canada rate hike
Theo Argitis, Greg Quinn, Maciej Onoszko, Erik Hertzberg, Josh Wingrove, Natalie Wong, Kevin Orland, Lily Jamali, Katia Dmitrieva, Dan Moss, Katherine Greifeld, Allison McNeely, Doug Alexander, Anny Kuo, Luke Kawa, Marc Perrier, Kristine Owram, Rita Devlin, Linly Lin and Courtney Dentch
The Globe and Mail, the deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
Paul Waldie, Tim Kiladze, Alexandra Posadzki, Andrew Willis, Jeff Gray, Tavia Grant, Kelly Grant, Tu Thanh Ha, Molly Hayes, Joe Friesen, Josh O’Kane and Susan Krashinsky Robertson
Canadian Press, the Equifax data breach
Armina Ligaya, Aleksandra Sagan, David Hodges and Ross Marowits
Commentary
Eric Reguly, The Globe and Mail
Rita Trichur, Report on Business magazine
David Parkinson, The Globe and Mail
Feature (long-form)
Claire Brownell, Adrian Humphreys and Jake Edmiston, National Post
“Two legacies, one dark mystery — the deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman”
Charles Wilkins, Report on Business magazine
“Home of the strange”
Mark MacKinnon, Geoffrey York and Nathan VanderKlippe, The Globe and Mail
“How Bombardier’s ‘success fees’ gave the transport giant an inside track to deals around the world”
Feature (short-form)
Peter Kuitenbrouwer and Laura Pederson, Financial Post
“How Canada became a tomato superpower”
Danielle Bochove, Bloomberg
“The Canadian ghost town that Tesla is bringing back to life”
Susan Krashinsky Robertson, The Globe and Mail
“Saying goodbye: Kanata paper founded by 14-year-old is one casualty of Postmedia-Torstar deal”
Package
Sarah Efron, Brenda Bouw, Chris Hannay and Bill Curry, The Globe and Mail
Small-business tax changes
Allison McNeely, Bloomberg
Shadow lending
Mike Hager, Nathan VanderKlippe, Jill Mahoney, Matthew McClearn, Barrie McKenna, David Parkinson, Janet McFarland, Tamsin McMahon and Tim Kiladze, The Globe and Mail
Housing
Profile
Steve Burgess, BCBusiness
“The Way of the Dragan”
Claire Brownell, Financial Post
“Vitalik Buterin: The cryptocurrency prophet”
Jacqueline Nelson, The Globe and Mail
“Mark Machin: Appetite for risk”
Personal Finance/Investing
David Milstead, The Globe and Mail
Prajakta Dhopade, MoneySense
Sarah Efron, The Globe and Mail
“Only the wealthy? The truth about the Liberals’ proposed small-business tax reforms”
Investigative
Tavia Grant, The Globe and Mail
Canada’s deadliest jobs
Marina Strauss, Report on Business magazine
“Inside the messy transformation of Tim Hortons”
Grant Robertson and Tom Cardoso, The Globe and Mail
White-collar crime in Canada
Beat Reporting
Joe Castaldo, Maclean’s
Housing
Christine Dobby, The Globe and Mail
Canadian telecom
Marina Strauss, The Globe and Mail
Retailing
Claudia Cattaneo, Financial Post
Energy
A huge thank-you to our judges:
Greg Bonnell, Mark Brown, Lynn Cunningham, Henry Dubroff, Chelsea Emery, Pete Evans, Max Fawcett, Derek Finkle, David Friend, Lee-Anne Goodman, Megan Griffith Greene, Murad Hemmadi, Ken Hunt, Steve Ladurantaye, Amanda Lang, Andree Lau, Tracey Lindeman, James Madore, Susan Nerberg, Mira Oberman, Joanna Ossinger, Neil Parmar, David Scanlan, Cory Schouten, Anna Sharratt, Caleb Silver and Marty Wolk.
We’d also like to thank our generous sponsors, who are making our awards night on April 18 possible:
TD Bank, Accenture, Cision, Fidelity Investments, Schulich School of Business, Ivey Business Journal, Longview Communications and Cannex