Ritika Dubey

Ritika Dubey is a business reporter and editor at the Canadian Press whose coverage links economic forces and financial systems to everyday decisions, focusing on how markets, policy and corporate moves shape household finances and consumer life. Her work sits at the intersection of personal finance, retail and macroeconomics, consistently translating data, expert insight and company results into clear, usable context for people managing their money. Across beats, she returns to questions of affordability, value and risk, showing how shifts in prices, wages, fees and regulation play out in bank accounts, grocery aisles and workplaces.

Personal finance and everyday money decisions

Personal finance reporting is a central strand of Dubey’s work, with a steady run of stories on tax filing, budgeting and investing that lay out concrete steps for readers rather than abstract theory. She writes about maximizing tax returns, explaining credits, deductions and government policies in plain language while drawing on specialists to spell out how people can avoid “leaving cash on the table” at tax time.

Her pieces on tax season detail the Canada Revenue Agency’s service changes and what filers should expect, but always bring the focus back to how those changes alter the filing experience and potential refunds for individuals.

Dubey frequently addresses common household friction points, such as financial hiccups among roommates, framing these stories around the social dynamics of shared living as much as the math of splitting bills. She covers money conversations with kids and long lists of hobbies, showing how families and individuals can pursue their interests without breaking the bank through better framing, planning and realistic limits on spending. Her investing coverage focuses on practical decision-making, from whether investment fees clear a high enough bar to justify their drag on returns, to how to choose an adviser when taking the next step in an investing journey.

Side hustles, career pivots and trades training appear in her work as financial choices too, with guidance on when a side business stops making sense and what to weigh before leaving a desk job for the trades.

Markets, economic indicators and corporate results

Alongside personal finance, Dubey reports on financial markets and economic data, often connecting daily moves to broader trends rather than treating them as isolated snapshots. Her market pieces track the S&P/TSX composite and U.S. stock indices, noting when gains are “heavy on the tech side” or when oil prices and Middle East tensions drive Canadian equities lower while U.S. benchmarks hover near records. These stories explain sector leadership, geopolitical drivers and investor sentiment, giving readers both the numbers and the reasons behind them.

She regularly covers economic indicators such as retail sales and population growth, using Statistics Canada data to show where spending is rising, which subsectors lead, and how demographic shifts are cooling rental and housing markets. In pieces on the domestic economy and the Canadian dollar, she situates currency moves within a slower home economy and a stronger U.S. dollar, making clear how cross-border conditions and rate expectations tug the loonie in different directions. Her corporate reporting includes earnings and outlooks for major retailers such as Dollarama, where she parses how conflicts abroad and rising freight costs factor into management forecasts and pricing decisions.

Across these stories, Dubey’s through-line is tying headline figures - profits, sales, index levels - to what they mean for consumer prices, investor portfolios and business plans.

Retail, food prices and the consumer economy

Retail and food are another focus, with Dubey’s beat extending deep into grocery chains, tariffs and the business of feeding households. She reports on weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications, showing how their booming popularity is reshaping grocery pharmacy units and becoming a significant sales driver for chains such as Loblaw.

Her coverage of tariffs and trade digs into U.S. bans on Canadian booze, reciprocal Canadian tariffs and grocers’ responses, highlighting where distilleries bear the brunt and why economists do not expect tariff skirmishes to immediately hit grocery bills.

Dubey follows the rise of liquidation grocery stores, documenting how discount operations have expanded store counts in tandem with food inflation and growing appetite for deals. She writes about scanner apps and “Buy Canadian” labelling, explaining regulatory distinctions like “product of Canada” versus “made in Canada” and helping consumers judge whether marketing claims match actual production. Across these retail stories, she traces how policy, trade disruptions and corporate strategies filter down into prices, selection and perceived value, keeping the consumer experience at the centre of business coverage.

Work, banking and the changing everyday economy

Dubey’s reporting and public callouts show a sustained interest in how work, housing and financial services are changing for ordinary Canadians, and in the frictions that emerge along the way.

She writes about young people facing a tough summer labour market, offering practical advice on how to land jobs amid weaker opportunities. Her stories on leaving desk jobs for the trades explore motivations, financial implications and training pathways, treating career change as both a lifestyle choice and a major economic decision.

Her social media calls for sources flag upcoming pieces on ageism at work, online-only banks and auto theft’s impact on insurance premiums, suggesting an approach that mixes structural issues in labour and finance with lived experience from affected people. She has also reported on laneway homes as a route to more affordable housing and multi-generational living, illustrating how families use alternative housing forms to address cost pressures and caregiving needs. Whether the subject is banking with digital-only institutions, coping with rising insurance costs or reconfiguring housing, Dubey consistently looks at how systems and policies collide with human stories, and how people adapt their financial and life strategies in response.