Saira Peesker
Saira Peesker uses detailed personal case studies to show how people navigate income, work and the cost of living, linking individual budgets to broader shifts in household finances and labour. She is a reporter with CBC Hamilton and a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail, where she covers business and personal finance. Her portfolio combines reported data, research and lived experience to explain how policy, markets and workplace culture translate into everyday money decisions. She has previously worked with outlets including the Hamilton Spectator and CTV News, and now moves between daily local reporting and national personal finance features.
Paycheque Project and household cash flow
At The Globe and Mail, Peesker is a central voice in the Paycheque Project series, which profiles a wide range of financial stories and situations. In one recent piece, she follows a Guelph parent returning to work after two parental leaves and examines how extended time off reshapes career plans and the family budget.
In another, she details an Oakville couple earning more than $400,000 a year and making $8,000 monthly mortgage payments, laying out how housing costs constrain saving and lifestyle choices even at high incomes. A separate profile of a Winnipeg aviation worker who made $315,000 in a year but works 12‑hour shifts for eight days in a row shows how overtime, fatigue and job demands underpin headline earnings. Across these cases, she walks through income, major expenses and stress points in each household budget, keeping the focus on concrete numbers and the trade‑offs behind them.
Participants are often given “fun fake names,” underscoring her emphasis on candid disclosure while protecting privacy.
Work, gender and the motherhood penalty
Peesker also reports on structural forces that shape who gets ahead financially, paying particular attention to gender, caregiving and workplace culture.
In a Globe and Mail feature on breadwinner women, she traces the rise in households where women earn more than half of family income, while showing that mothers who remain primary caregivers have seen much slower progress. The article draws on research and expert commentary about workplace stigma, pay cuts for mothers versus pay bumps for fathers, and the unequal share of housework and child‑care that many women carry.
By pairing national data with individual stories, she makes clear how the motherhood penalty limits career trajectories and long‑term financial security, even for high‑earning women.
Consumer choices and economic mood
Her finance reporting also looks at how Canadians adjust spending as prices, interest rates and trade relationships change. In a Globe and Mail piece on liquor purchases, she examines what Canadians are buying instead of American wine and spirits, using consumer choices to illustrate how people respond to shifting costs and availability.
She has written about financial pessimism rising alongside inflation and interest rates, highlighting how macroeconomic trends feed into household expectations and day‑to‑day money management. Her business coverage includes a profile of a cookie manufacturer where she speaks with the chief executive about how adopting new technology is improving operations and helping the company grow.
These stories extend her focus from individual budgets to the broader economic landscape that shapes them.
Labour, climate and local power at CBC Hamilton
With CBC Hamilton, Peesker covers climate, labour and local politics, carrying her interest in work and power into city‑level institutions and conflicts. Her labour reporting includes coverage of Hamilton Health Sciences’ plan to cut 413 jobs, documenting how unions describe morale as “very low” and frame the cuts as a blow to the workforce.
She reports on police and public safety through stories about carjackings that end in foot chases and collisions involving police vehicles, and pieces that scrutinize police boards and calls for cultural change within the service. Her political coverage tracks municipal election slates, provincial byelections and community responses to events linked to anti‑immigration organizing, showing how decisions by candidates, boards and venues affect representation and social cohesion. She also writes about sport and environment, from profiling players on the new PWHL Hamilton women’s hockey team as they settle into the city to following the relocation of Marineland belugas and dolphins to facilities in the United States and Spain.
In this work, as in her finance reporting, she connects individual experiences to the systems that govern work, public services and community life.
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Abby Hughes
Abby Hughes explains economic and financial policy through its effects on businesses and everyday people. She is a journalist for CBC News and also covers entertainment, health, science and education, with a focus on customers, fans, patients, citizens and students. Her business reporting examines interest rates, inflation, insolvency, tariffs, investment incentives and financial technology. She has covered Bank of Canada rate decisions, consumer price data, GDP growth, rising household insolvencies, struggling restaurants, retaliatory tariffs, the Canada Strong Fund, accelerated-expensing tax measures and investment summits. She has also reported on a Wealthsimple security incident involving client data. Hughes stays close to data and uses expert commentary to connect policy and sector pressures to household budgets, borrowers, savers, patients, customers and small businesses. Her reporting combines technical detail with the lived experience of economic change.
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.