Manuela Vega
Manuela Vega covers how money, housing and policy collide in people’s daily lives, with a focus on the pressures and inequities in Canada’s housing and rental markets. Her reporting tracks interest rate moves, rent and mortgage trends, and the knock-on effects for tenants, homeowners and would-be buyers, translating macroeconomic shifts into clear, human-scale stories.
Housing costs, rents and the squeeze on tenants
Vega reports extensively on the rental market, including shifts in rents across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and what changing supply means for tenants. She covers data-driven stories on rent levels, vacancy rates and where prices are softening or accelerating, often anchored in new market research and reports. Her housing coverage highlights the gap between incomes and shelter costs, the experience of renters facing bidding wars or steep increases, and the policy questions around supply, regulation and tenant protections. She treats housing affordability as a core economic issue rather than a niche real estate topic, returning to it across news pieces and recurring newsletter work.
Interest rates, inflation and household finances
Vega follows central bank decisions and explains how rate moves filter down into household budgets. In her coverage of the Bank of Canada holding its key interest rate, she reports on expert views that the country could be at an “affordability bottom” for housing, unpacking what that means for different types of borrowers and buyers. She links rate decisions to mortgage renewals, debt servicing costs and changing buyer demand, using interviews with economists and housing analysts to situate the headlines in a broader economic context. Her pieces tend to connect inflation, wages and borrowing costs back to questions of affordability and financial strain for ordinary households.
Business, work and the cost of living
Beyond housing and rates, Vega writes on wider business and cost-of-living themes, including how price changes, corporate decisions and labour market shifts affect people at work and at home. She covers stories where business trends intersect with affordability, such as the impact of rising costs on young adults, families and lower-income workers. Her reporting often foregrounds individual stories and case studies alongside data, giving readers both the numbers and the lived experience behind them. She brings a similar approach to her newsletter writing, distilling complex economic developments into accessible, practical takeaways.
Newsroom role and formats
Vega is a business and housing reporter at the Toronto Star and writes for the Star’s First Up newsletter. She has also worked as a reporter on the Star’s express desk, contributing quick-turn coverage and multimedia pieces on breaking stories. In addition to written articles, she has produced explainer-style video segments for the Star’s digital platforms, including breakdowns of pandemic developments and on-the-ground pieces from vaccination sites. Across formats, she maintains a concise, explanatory style that prioritizes clarity on how policy and market shifts affect people’s financial lives.
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Aditya Rangroo
Aditya Rangroo stands out for data-rich business reporting that links market moves to everyday consumer experience. He is a business correspondent and Principal Correspondent in The Tribune’s Delhi bureau, with about 15 years of business journalism experience across multiple media brands. His beat covers market data, corporate developments, commodity prices, trade diplomacy, retail innovation, cross-border remittances, and diaspora and culture stories with an economic angle. His recent work has included corporate valuations, export figures, gold and silver prices, India-US trade talks, mystery shopping, a cyber breach at Tata Electronics, and Punjab’s industrial growth and agrarian stress. He writes short, tightly framed stories that foreground the numbers and explain what they mean for businesses, markets, and individual readers.
Anam Khan
Anam Khan is a BNN Bloomberg journalist whose reporting stands out for tying energy markets, critical minerals and business conditions directly to Canada’s economic outlook and financial policy. She covers business, energy, mining, financial markets and economic policy, and she explains what shifting data, commodity prices and Bank of Canada decisions mean for companies and households. Her work connects hard data, sector detail and policy implications, from oil prices and inflation to lithium, graphite, small-business closures and tariff pressure on manufacturing. She reports through interviews and analysis, using executives, economists, strategists and resource-sector leaders to walk readers through scenarios and trade-offs. Her past reporting includes coverage for a national public broadcaster, and she often builds explainers around expert reactions, market voices and what happens next.
Anand Sinha
Anand Sinha stands out for tracking how large holders, institutional investors, and core infrastructure shape the crypto market through price moves, on-chain data, and corporate actions. He writes about cryptocurrencies and listed crypto stocks for Yahoo Finance, often through stories originally reported for TheStreet’s crypto desk. His beat centers on XRP, whale activity, Coinbase, MicroStrategy, Robinhood, Circle, crypto ATMs, and fintech products tied to digital assets. He also covers Web3, DeFi, blockchain, and fintech. His reporting is short and direct, built around key numbers, dates, wallet records, and market reactions. He uses on-chain data to explain extreme trading outcomes and keeps the focus on how money and power flow through the crypto economy.
Andrew Galbraith
Andrew Galbraith focuses on how real portfolios work, cutting through sales pitches and market noise for everyday investors. He is an investment reporter with The Globe and Mail’s personal finance team and writes the Investor Clinic column, applying a “first, do no harm” approach to reader portfolios. His work centres on individual investor decisions, from choosing ETFs, covered-call strategies and DIY brokerages to reacting to geopolitical headlines, global markets and debt risks. Drawing on qualitative investment research and prior global markets reporting, he tests fads and advice against data, diversification, costs, behaviour and long-term outcomes. He treats reader cases as disciplined investing lessons, explains complex topics in plain language, scrutinizes platforms as environments that shape habits and frames major events as context for careful capital allocation rather than cues for speculative trading.