Business Journalistsin Canada

Aarjavee Raaj focuses on how corporate decisions, government warnings and economic trends affect everyday Canadians, using clear, data-driven business and related news coverage. She is a CTVNews.ca journalist with experience reporting on arts, culture, business and more, and her name is pronounced Aar-Za-Vee. Her work links institutional and corporate developments to practical consequences for workers, consumers and families, including corporate losses, retail restructuring, tax schemes and compliance warnings. She reports on workplace trends, economic strain, consumer recalls and health impacts, using survey data, charity reports, regulatory notices and clinical stories to show how macroeconomic and policy issues touch daily life. A digital journalist, she keeps to tight headlines, clear summaries of official statements or data, and a steady focus on what developments mean for people who work, shop and rely on public services.

Abigail Adams reports human interest stories that follow how sudden conflict, loss and long-running mysteries reshape the lives of ordinary people in everyday settings. She is a writer-reporter on PEOPLE’s Human Interest team, a role she has held since joining the brand in June 2021. Her work centers on routine days that turn into major events, giving equal weight to what happened and the human cost. She covers minor disputes and errands that end in tragedy, sudden accidents, law enforcement and public safety incidents, and missing-person cases with new developments after years of uncertainty. Her reporting is concise, event-led and built around individual lives, often framed with clear emotional cues while staying grounded in verified facts. Business and workplace contexts appear as backdrops, but the person and their circle remain at the heart of the story.

Akshay Kulkarni is a data-led reporter who explains how economic, policy and social forces play out in British Columbia through concrete numbers, records and local case histories. He has worked as a journalist at CBC British Columbia since 2021, focusing on business, labour and resource developments, including tariffs, trade rules, corporate strategies and regulatory decisions. His coverage of critical minerals, Amazon’s impact on jobs and wages, and responsible investment links market shifts to the lived experience of workers, consumers and small businesses. He also reports on infrastructure, energy and land use, such as the Site C project and high-value property disputes, and on policy and social systems, including Indigenous deaths in custody, social media use in harm reduction, and mandatory inquests. His stories are built around original interviews and quantitative detail that show how systems affect communities on the ground.

Allison Stephen stands out for connecting everyday life with money, work, and the built environment through vivid local examples instead of abstract business coverage. She is a staff writer at Daily Hive, where she covers how jobs, housing, major projects, and consumer experiences shape economic reality on the ground. Housing and real estate are central to her work, including detailed, accessible stories on distinctive homes, high-end rentals, and monthly shifts in home prices and cost of living. She regularly covers employment, especially public-sector and institutional hiring, highlighting well-paid roles and urging readers to act on new opportunities. Her reporting on major civic and recreational projects explains what is being built, how much it costs, and where it stands in approvals. She also writes about local businesses, food, and attractions, using concrete numbers, specific locations, and direct calls to action.

Andy Takagi connects the business side of transportation with the everyday experience of commuters. He is a transportation reporter at the Toronto Star, focusing on public transit, commuting and safety at major transportation hubs. His beat covers labour negotiations and service agreements, showing how contracts, disputes and settlements affect continuity of service, operational stability and front line working conditions. He examines commuting patterns during major events, looking at crowding, delays, route changes and rider sentiment through commuter perspectives. He also reports on safety and incidents, including detailed coverage of a Delta plane crash at Pearson airport based on preliminary investigation findings and expert analysis. His reporting uses an explanatory style shaped by producing a morning briefing newsletter, turning complex developments and regulatory material into clear, concise coverage.

Anita Hamilton is an assistant managing editor at Barron’s who stands out for connecting fast-breaking economic, policy, and geopolitical events directly to market moves. She covers how major developments affect asset prices, trading flows, and investor behavior, with concise, data-driven stories on stocks, oil, housing-related securities, and cryptocurrencies. Her reporting emphasizes trading flows, analyst data, and price action, explaining why specific earnings reports, company events, or policy decisions change the outlook for companies and sectors. She co-writes Economy & Policy coverage, tracks housing REITs, and is a go-to reporter on energy and defense stocks tied to military and diplomatic developments. She also writes on blockchain and crypto markets and offers practical personal finance guidance, drawing on prior roles as editor in chief of a personal finance channel and as a money editor.

Baystreet Staff writes brief, market-moving business updates for BayStreet.ca, with a narrow focus on insider transactions and executive-level corporate actions that may affect investor sentiment and trading. They cover fast-moving corporate events, especially executive moves and insider share sales, treating these developments as timely signals on corporate health and leadership confidence. Their pieces highlight what happened, who was involved, the size or nature of the transaction, and the basic financial context, such as a Tesla chief financial officer selling company stock and its relevance for shareholders. Articles are short, fact-forward, and focused on a single event or announcement, prioritizing executive stock sales, leadership changes, and other financially relevant news over broader industry features. The reporting is concise, transactional, and grounded in documentable events and public disclosures.

Ben Bouguerra reports on how economic forces and public policy show up in everyday life, centring consumers, commuters, and local businesses. He is a CityNews anchor and reporter, and a graduate of the BCIT Broadcast Journalism program, first joining CityNews 1130 as an intern in fall 2023. His beat includes cost of living pressures, consumer strain, local business districts, transportation, travel and tourism demand, and large public events like downtown protests. He connects trends in prices, vacancies, traffic and infrastructure to concrete impacts on household budgets, storefronts, and movement through the city. His stories focus on direct, service-oriented information, using clear leads, tight structure, and interviews with residents, small business owners, financial experts, and local officials to give audiences practical, ground-level understanding of economic news.

Beth Fagan is a VOCM reporter and on-air summer roadshow host, known for covering how business decisions, public policy and institutional change land on everyday people. She reports local business and labour stories, pairing economic developments with the people affected by them, including union negotiations and new consumer products around end-of-life services. She covers heritage properties and institutional projects, documenting the loss, redevelopment and reuse of historic buildings and how those choices shape planning, investment and identity. She also handles fast-moving public safety and environmental news, from fire hazard ratings and wildfires to serious collisions and missing persons searches. Across her work she uses concise, straight-news formats with clear timelines and direct quotes from leaders, officials and residents to connect institutional decisions with community impact.

Bob Aaron stands out for writing about the law behind everyday property and estate decisions, not just the housing market. He is the Toronto Star’s property law columnist and a real estate lawyer at Aaron & Aaron. He has written more than 800 property law columns and has held the role since October 1968. His work focuses on concrete property law cases, disputes over ownership, land, rights, mortgages, refinancing, and transaction risks. He also covers wills, estates, burial wishes, and family expectations. He explains court decisions, transaction histories, and family scenarios in plain language, showing where legal risk lies and how the law applies in practice.

Brad Hunter is a national crime columnist with a tabloid-crime sensibility, known for lurid homicides, cold cases and the criminal underworld rather than routine police or court coverage. He writes for the Toronto Sun, covering crime across jurisdictions, with dramatic, character-driven stories that stress human and often sensational details. His columns feature gangland feuds, notorious killers, organised crime, domestic murders, family violence, sexual assault and exploitation, framed with bold headlines, strong narrative hooks and the “HUNTER:” tag. Hunter previously worked for the New York Post, and his tabloid style favours pace, colour and clear villains. He often revisits unresolved cases and everyday settings erupting into violence, using column formats to add context, attitude and commentary while grounding his reporting in police statements, court records and investigative timelines.

Bryann Aguilar stands out for fast, fact-heavy breaking news on crime, public safety and city services. He is a journalist with CP24 and CTV News, where he covers business and breaking news stories. His real beat is violent incidents, police investigations, transit disruptions and service problems that affect daily life. He reports on assaults, shootings, stabbings, fatal collisions, robberies and labour negotiations, often focusing on how they affect commuters, neighbourhoods and emergency response. He also covers public appeals, suspect photos and health alerts. His stories are direct and short. He relies on official information from police, paramedics and public health officials, and he gives the key facts first: where it happened, when it happened, who was involved and what authorities want the public to know.

Bryce Hoye connects business and policy stories to the systems that shape everyday life, using a science-informed lens grounded in wildlife biology. He is a multi-platform journalist at CBC Manitoba and has worked for the public broadcaster for more than a decade. His reporting covers the provincial economy, trade, inflation, labour and housing, along with science, environment, health and justice features that intersect with economic and regulatory choices. He focuses on how budgets, contracts, market forces and social policies play out on the ground, rather than as abstract indicators. His work includes interactive and long-form features on garter snake dens, Arctic foxes and fur trapping, tying ecological systems and resource industries to livelihoods and policy. He uses multimedia, data and field reporting, and is active in science journalism networks and professional development.

Camille Wilson stands out for business and community stories told through a human lens, with a focus on entrepreneurship, local markets and events. She is a Multi-Skilled Journalist with CTV News Ottawa, contributing to television, radio and digital platforms, and she also works as a reporter and host. Her beat centers on small business, emerging entrepreneurs, youth business fairs, Black-owned markets, festivals, sports and policy stories with clear human impact. She has reported on an entrepreneur who built a popcorn company while incarcerated, children learning budgeting and pricing at business fairs, and events built around Black-owned enterprises. Wilson also covers Indigenous festivals, the Canadian Tulip Festival, Ottawa Redblacks open practice, equestrian competition and psychologists warning about training cuts. She regularly uses direct testimony and personal stories to show how decisions and events shape daily life.

Camryn Farquharson is a multimedia journalist with CBC’s Prince Edward Island newsroom whose work tracks how structural decisions in business, policy and culture show up in everyday life. She reports across digital, television and audio on the business beat, focusing on small businesses, workers and the local economy, from infrastructure disruptions and liquor regulations to energy reliability and BIPOC entrepreneurship. Her stories stay close to cash registers, storefronts and community spaces, using clear language and interviews with owners, staff, customers and organizers to show how rules and funding affect revenue, workplace norms, youth movements, community groups and hospice care. She also covers cultural institutions and fandoms, including a long-standing francophone newspaper and local sports supporters, and is recognized by CBC as a 2025 News summer scholarship recipient and emerging journalist trusted with general assignment and community features.

Charles Brockman is a multimedia journalist and digital team lead whose most distinctive work follows transit labour tensions, especially contract talks between Unifor and Coast Mountain Bus Company. He works at CityNews Vancouver, covering business and labour with a focus on how employer and union decisions shape daily life in Metro Vancouver. His beat sits at the intersection of transit operations, worker rights, and public safety, with detailed reporting on unionized bus drivers and SeaBus operators, strike mandates, vote results, wage and safety demands, and bargaining mechanics. He also reports on public safety and policing, treating charges, police responses, and crime incidents as factual updates tied to neighbourhood risk. In disaster coverage, he blends basic context with lived experience, using individual voices. His digital-first approach draws on a decade in graphic design and prior experience at CBC.

Chris Kitching’s most distinctive work traces how health, money and regulation intersect, with accountability a constant thread. He is a general assignment reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press, covering business and general news. His beat spans health care oversight, local government and consumer markets, with frequent focus on professional misconduct, regulatory gaps and how institutions respond when systems fail. He reports on small‑town politics and local councils under strain, policing and public safety, and consumer issues in housing and transportation, including short‑term rentals and electric vehicles. Kitching moves between breaking news and long explanatory pieces, building stories from first‑hand accounts and direct outreach to residents, frontline workers and officials. With more than two decades in digital, print and TV newsrooms, he uses a straight, fact‑driven style to show how institutional decisions shape daily life.

Christine van Reeuwyk stands out for business coverage that treats local commerce as part of everyday life, showing what restaurants, shops and other enterprises offer in clear, practical terms. She reports for Victoria News within the Victoria News and Saanich News network, focusing on business and local commerce with an emphasis on dining and hospitality. Her work includes detailed stories on the restaurant sector, such as a feature on five Victoria restaurant patios named among the best 100 in Canada, using list-driven formats to walk readers through each venue. She highlights specific amenities and experiences like outdoor seating, atmosphere and dog-friendly features, and frames business achievements as wins for the wider community. Her reporting is service-focused, using accessible language, rankings, curated lists and focused features to help readers decide where to spend their time and money.

Christl Dabu is a national affairs writer known for clear, service-focused explainers that show how policies, legal issues and workplace trends affect everyday life. She writes for CTVNews.ca and CP24, moving between business, law, employment and wider national topics while keeping the emphasis on concrete impacts rather than abstract markets or politics. Her consumer coverage includes explainers on public services, legal rights, civic processes like the census and public holidays such as Victoria Day. She reports on consumer protection issues like the LifeLabs class-action lawsuit, detailing who qualifies and what steps people must take. A major strand of her work examines workplace trends, hiring practices and the job market, including pieces on “doomjobbing” and how job seekers and employers respond to mass applications. She also writes feature stories on faith, history, global politics and unsolved crimes, foregrounding expert insight and victims’ lives.

Daniel Foch is a real estate market analyst and broker who brings a commercial, risk-focused lens to housing coverage, concentrating on how shifts in sales, prices and inventory shape the wider housing economy. He writes a recurring column for Real Estate Magazine on the Greater Toronto Area and the broader Canadian housing market, using current data to pinpoint where the market sits in the cycle and where stress or pressure is building for buyers, sellers and industry professionals. His work centres on risk, timing and pricing power in a volatile GTA environment, highlighting corrections, false rebounds and slow-grind shifts rather than individual deals. With more than 15 years advising everyone from individual investors to institutional players, he also works as a chief real estate officer, market commentator, podcast host and newsletter writer on artificial intelligence, economics, real estate and Canada.

Darren Taylor is a reporter-photographer with a people-first frame, using his own images and short text to show how policy, work and culture play out in daily life. He reports on business and wider community life for SooToday and SNNewsWatch, often using local attractions and events as entry points into broader stories about families, workers and residents. His midway gallery on rides returning to town centres children’s voices and turns an entertainment piece into a snapshot of local leisure. He follows senior decision-makers such as the federal labour minister through meetings with steelworkers and seniors, grounding national labour issues in workplaces and retiree communities. He covers the local cultural economy, including music exhibits and creative collaborations, and documents milestones like Missanabie Cree First Nation’s first band member to earn a medical degree, tying individual careers to community pride and change.

Deepa Seetharaman is a business and technology reporter who treats AI as a business system, tracking how it reshapes corporate power, capital flows and risk at the world’s largest tech companies. She now focuses on OpenAI’s rise, its planned “juggernaut” IPO, Nvidia’s multibillion-dollar investment and the emerging corporate stack linking chip makers and AI labs, as well as OpenAI’s safety bets and reputational and legal battles. Her reporting also examines how AI spending drives layoffs, budget shifts and C-suite frustration at established platforms such as Meta. She frequently covers Elon Musk, SpaceX and contested founder power across space, AI and capital markets. Earlier, she reported on corporate strategy, platforms and activist pressure, including eBay’s PayPal spinoff, Yahoo’s sale, and award-winning investigative work on Facebook’s governance and internal research on Instagram’s impact on teens.

Denis Conroy is a journalist defined by hyperlocal community storytelling that turns routine municipal announcements and events into human-centered narratives focused on how policies and happenings affect Regina residents’ daily lives. He currently reports on Regina’s cultural calendar and local government, documenting participatory events like Frost Regina’s expanded three-weekend format, the Cathedral Village Arts Festival’s 35th anniversary, and the Seniors Expo through attendee experiences. He translates bureaucratic updates such as Family Day service schedules, collision-prone intersections, and Government House hailstorm damage into plain, practical information for residents. He covers business and labor activity through social impact, from IHOP/Applebee’s grand opening and McDonald’s mental health donations to Canada Post strikes, centering community voices. He also integrates historical context, linking Archives Week and contemporary art to Saskatchewan’s heritage and reporting projects on 125 Saskatchewan legends.

Eamonn Sheridan brings a trader’s perspective to news flow, focusing on how policy decisions, trade talks and real-economy signals move currencies and markets. He is Chief Asia-Pacific Currency Analyst at InvestingLive, formerly Forexlive, drawing on thirteen years as a spot foreign exchange dealer at Bankers Trust Australia, where he became vice president. His core beat is foreign exchange, especially Asia-Pacific currencies and the central banks and policy makers behind them. He covers central bank communication, rate paths, inflation views and policy credibility, and ties intraday FX moves to macro drivers. He reports on cross-border trade, regulation, antitrust and geopolitical tension as market events with clear consequences for currencies, risk assets and sentiment. He uses consumer data, commodities and technology stories, including large AI financing plans, as practical signals in a clipped, market-focused style.

Emily Blake reports on how money, policy and memory shape life in the North, focusing on funding, compensation and cultural initiatives that affect Indigenous communities and local residents. She is a senior reporter and assistant editor at Cabin Radio and authors its Substack newsletter, The Outhouse, covering politics, arts and everyday realities across the Northwest Territories. Her beat spans healing funds, class-action settlements, housing policy, health and justice, and business stories grounded in local impact. She explains dollar figures, eligibility rules and application steps so complex programs are clear to people who might use them. Blake also reports on arts, books, archives and heritage projects, tracing how personal and community memory are preserved. Her background includes reporting roles at a national wire service, a public broadcaster and a regional daily newspaper.

A distinctive focus of Frances Yue’s reporting is how speculative money moves between crypto, artificial intelligence themes and semiconductor stocks, and what that means for broader market volatility. She is a cryptocurrency and markets reporter at MarketWatch, where she covers bitcoin, digital assets, ETFs and high-growth tech trades as they feed into day-to-day action in major stock indexes. Her core beat is the cryptocurrency market, with emphasis on bitcoin cycles, ETF flows and investor behavior across retail and institutional players. She reports on major drawdowns, new spot bitcoin ETFs and cross-asset rotations into gold, oil, tech equities and pre-IPO contracts. Yue blends charts, options and volatility gauges with interviews and real-time blog coverage, using data and expert commentary to show how risk appetite and market structure drive swings across crypto, tech and traditional equities.

Hanna Hett connects business and policy decisions to their impact on everyday life, using concrete comparisons and accessible metrics to show how economic and regulatory trends affect residents’ choices and opportunities. She is a staff writer at Daily Hive, where she covers cost of living, provincial finances, infrastructure, social policy, environment, and public safety through clear, data-driven reporting and practical examples from day-to-day experience. Her work examines wages, prices, affordability, housing, demographic shifts, credit ratings, regulation, and cross-border agreements, treating business and fiscal developments as public-interest stories. She reports on transportation, urban design, environmental risks, and operational responses to climate and ecological challenges. She also covers health policy, crime and safety, education and workplace conduct, professional profiles, arts and events, and produces partner content for organizations such as ICBC.

Isabelle Docto focuses on how money decisions and programs show up in everyday life, treating government initiatives, legal settlements, and corporate moves as personal finance stories for ordinary consumers. She is a senior national trends writer at Daily Hive, where she covers business-adjacent stories through a practical lens and translates complex financial and market changes into clear guidance on benefits, costs, and opportunities. Her recent work centres on government payments and financial support, class-action settlements, interest rate updates, flight delays, and loyalty program changes, with an emphasis on timing, eligibility, dollar amounts, and real-world impact. A multimedia journalist with experience in written, audio, and visual storytelling, she uses a direct, service-driven style, plain language, and clear structure. She also writes opinion pieces on community experience and resilience.

Isha Rizwan covers local business activity, treating business news as neighbourhood change and focusing on how new and growing companies shape commercial life in and around Halton. She reports on business openings and market entries, especially consumer-facing brands moving into or expanding within the local market, tracking new locations, service launches, and timing. Her work centres on the retail and hospitality landscape, following coffee shops, restaurants, and other storefronts to show how they cluster, compete, and add to the mix of shops and services on specific streets and in defined districts. She frames developments through their impact on residents and local commerce, noting concrete details like opening dates, footprint, and service model, and linking them to foot traffic, consumer choice, and the evolution of the local business environment.

Jack Moulton is a city hall reporter for the London Free Press who treats city hall as both a political and operational hub, tracking how decisions ripple out to storefronts, neighbourhoods and workers. He focuses on how municipal plans, strategies and debates shape everyday life and the local economy, especially in the downtown core. His beat includes housing regulation, renovictions, downtown revitalization, infrastructure and emergency response. He reports as a multimedia journalist, using written stories, audio and on-the-ground coverage to explain complex civic issues in clear, practical terms. His work includes service-focused explainers such as “five things to know about renovictions and how to police them” and extended podcast discussions that unpack timelines, funding and implementation challenges, with a consistent emphasis on business implications, operational realities and accountability.

Jason Gewirtz blends senior breaking news leadership with hands-on market synthesis, turning daily volatility into clear, forward-looking stock rundowns built around the close and the next day’s open. He is CNBC’s vice president of news and manages the network’s breaking news special reports, applying a real-time, market-impact lens to major events. His “big stock stories: what’s likely to move the market” pieces track index moves, sector shifts, and single-stock catalysts and lay out jobless claims, legal rulings, geopolitical risks, and other near-term triggers for equities. He links conflicts, commodity swings, regulation, technology, and security risks to moves in energy, biotech, consumer, healthcare, autos, and materials. His structured, cross-sector format, tied to an after-hours “Stocks @ Night” briefing, gives investors concise, actionable guides to what mattered today and what may drive trading next.

Jeff Bell is a long-serving Times Colonist reporter who covers business through the lens of public services, civic institutions and community life. He moves between transportation decisions, charity book sales, school initiatives and heritage projects, showing how financial and operational choices affect residents. His beat includes education, police and municipal issues, with a focus on how public-sector and quasi-public organizations operate and interact with the community. He reports on public services and transportation, large-scale community fundraising and literacy, schools and youth programs, and civic history and heritage institutions. His stories highlight attendance figures, timelines, logistics, usage statistics and program details, and give space to organizers, educators, officials and participants to explain the impact of their work. He has worked at his hometown paper since 1990, after earlier experience at weeklies.

Jeremie Charron is a Weekend Correspondent for CTV National News and a National Correspondent for CTV News, known for treating international decisions and tariff regimes as practical business issues rather than abstract policy. He focuses on business and policy decisions that ripple through everyday life, connecting cross-border trade rules, parliamentary debates and national security files to the pressures facing businesses, workers and communities. His reporting covers friction points in Canada–U.S. commerce, economic policy and Parliament Hill strategy, major infrastructure projects, security operations and large national events. He explains complex trade and economic changes in straightforward language, keeps attention on costs, competitive pressure and market uncertainty, and grounds policy-heavy stories in human experiences. Across broadcast and digital formats, he brings together trade policy, economic debates, infrastructure plans, security concerns and human-interest features into a coherent view of how national decisions shape daily life.

Josh Duncan is the News Director at KelownaNow. He stands out for turning local business into a story about daily community life. He covers restaurants, hospitality, breweries, patios, local attractions, events, culture and other community organizations, with a close eye on openings, closures, rankings, campaigns, festival bookings, cancellations and how they affect foot traffic and revenue. He also reports on museum exhibits, library programs and other civic initiatives when they shape local identity, tourism and service provision. His stories use clear, concise leads and practical detail, including dates, times, ticket information and partner organizations. He has also written for a range of NowMedia categories beyond business, including entertainment, events, tourism and community news.

Josh Pringle reports on how economic decisions, labour issues and public service management affect daily life, with a focus on the business side of civic systems in and around Ottawa. He works as a producer and digital lead with CTV News Ottawa, contributing across television, radio and digital platforms. His core beat is the business of government and public service productivity, covering how management choices translate into productivity, spending and accountability. He also reports on labour and transit operations, tying staffing, safety and scheduling to service reliability. Pringle examines technology and media companies when automated or outsourced content creates business and reputational risk. He covers household finances, economic anxiety and the local business climate, using polling, reports and interviews. His reporting is grounded in documents, operational data and official statements, turning complex policy and management issues into clear coverage of everyday impact.

Josh Marano is a multi-skilled journalist who reports on how economic and business pressures play out in everyday life, focusing on the way national issues, local policy and rising costs affect small businesses, consumers and community activity. He works with CTV News Ottawa, contributing stories across television, radio and digital platforms. His beat centres on the local impact of business and financial trends, including operational disruptions, labour issues, infrastructure closures, inflation, energy prices, development projects and tourism. He covers these subjects by linking policy decisions and macroeconomic shifts to concrete effects on cash flow, customer access, planning challenges and consumer behaviour. Alongside business-focused coverage, he reports human-interest stories grounded in civic and economic context, balancing personal narratives with the public spaces and systems that shape them.

Kamil Karamali is a national news correspondent for CTV News and a weekend correspondent for its flagship national newscast. He stands out for turning affordability, policy, and business decisions into plain stories about daily life. He covers gas prices, grocery costs, federal benefits, and industry jobs, and he focuses on how those issues affect Canadians day to day. He has reported on high gas prices, grocery-price supports, auto industry job risks, major platform lawsuits, Sudanese refugees urging peace, World Cup reactions, and back-to-back heat waves. Earlier, he worked in public broadcasting in video and radio and covered community festivals. He writes, produces, and reports broadcast stories and digital explainers, often using experts and affected people to show the real-world impact.

Kate Helmore covers agriculture and food policy as a business beat, treating farming, inputs and food processing as strategic industries that shape Canada’s economic and trade position. She is the agriculture and food policy reporter at The Globe and Mail, where she previously worked as a Report on Business reporter on stories about microplastics in farming, Quebec’s pork crisis and Canada’s dominance in pulses. Her reporting follows the money behind what happens on farms and in supply chains, focusing on trade, tariffs, logistics, infrastructure and commodity investment. She uses reported features and Business Brief columns to start from concrete problems and processes, then pull back to show system-wide consequences for producers, exporters, lenders, policymakers and the broader economy. Climate policy, environmental regulation and sustainability are woven into her coverage as core business issues for agriculture.

Kelsea Arnett focuses on how decisions about money, infrastructure and industry land in specific places and communities. She reports for CBC Calgary, covering how business choices, public spending and resource developments shape daily life. Her work follows the money, policy and commercial forces behind local attractions, civic infrastructure and energy projects, including Stampede midway food ventures, municipal budgets for aging buildings, and coal mining proposals with economic and environmental stakes. She often highlights small business, cultural trends, community concerns and long-term planning in the same frame. Arnett also reports on student innovation and early-stage technology, linking classroom ideas to future markets. She previously worked as a researcher during the 2023 Alberta election, has written on city politics and election projects, and is part of the 2025 CBC News Summer Scholarship cohort. She reports in plain language and foregrounds people directly affected.

Kelvin Heppner covers agriculture through a business lens, focusing on how decisions, policies, and market forces shape the economics of modern farming and food production. He is a long-standing field editor and broadcast reporter who co-hosts a daily agriculture radio program and hosts an ag-policy podcast series. His beat is farm economics, markets, trade friction, policy and regulation, input strategies, and agronomy as business strategy. He reports on trade rules, tariffs, processing investments, glyphosate and other crop protection products, crop management technology, and real-time policy changes. Since 2008 he has examined how trade agreements, currency moves, data-driven practices, and support programs translate into contract risk, logistics bottlenecks, cash flow pressure, and competitiveness for farms, processors, and agribusinesses.

Ken MacGillivray stands out for project-based coverage that ties together business viability, policy hurdles and public impact across Alberta’s major institutions. He is Alberta online supervisor on Global News’ online team, after joining Global Calgary as an assignment editor in 2011. His reporting focuses on how decisions about infrastructure, public services and large events affect people and communities, with recent work on pipeline proposals, data centres, wildfire response, education settlements and the Calgary Stampede. He examines the business case and regulatory context around energy and infrastructure projects, and tracks institutional accountability through stories on class action settlements, health policy reports and interprovincial political disputes. He also covers events and community stories, from remembrance installations and public contests to industry honours and visual reporting on severe weather and local emergencies.

Kendra Mangione is a digital journalist at CTV News known for explaining how research, economic trends and policy decisions show up in travel, housing, work and business life for ordinary people. She covers business, work and wellbeing, focusing on economic impacts on everyday life, trade policy, cross-border dynamics and comparative costs. Her stories link tariffs, currency shifts, rent and travel expenses to household budgets and business decisions. She reports on online reviews, workplace mental health and remote work, using research-driven explainers and expert analysis. Her work includes pieces for BNN Bloomberg on education, research and elections. She also reports local and regional stories on enforcement actions, accident investigations, climate resilience and changes to building standards, across digital and television formats, always grounding complex developments in clear data and real-world consequences.

Kenneth Chan is an Urbanized Editor who follows large urban projects, transportation systems, and land-use decisions from concept to construction, with a focus on how they reshape the city’s economy. He leads coverage of architecture, planning, and economic development at Daily Hive, reporting on major civic proposals, high-density housing, transit capital projects, and industrial land shortages. His beat includes city-building, infrastructure economics, and business impacts, tracking costs, design changes, zoning and density rules, and long-term financial planning. He writes straight news, analysis, and occasional opinion, using planning documents, renderings, site plans, and business cases to show how bridges, festival grounds, mega-housing projects, and landmark attractions affect job space, tourism, tax bases, and neighbourhood growth over time.

Laine Mitchell links Alberta’s business landscape to everyday life, focusing on how money, policy, and culture intersect in daily choices. He is Alberta Editor at Daily Hive, where he covers practical, hyperlocal stories that translate complex developments in housing, industry, and regulations into clear information for readers. His beat includes Alberta markets and personal finance, with coverage of housing shifts, home sales, tax season changes, key deadlines, and how provincial decisions affect household budgets. Mitchell reports on major energy and industrial projects, tying investment figures to jobs, sector momentum, and broader provincial trends. He also writes about local rules, civic decisions, and service-driven guides to events and travel. His work uses clear headlines, rundowns, numbered lists, and concise explainers that foreground what people need to know now.

Lane Harrison stands out for business-focused municipal reporting that ties Toronto city hall decisions to their economic impact on residents and businesses. He covers transportation infrastructure and urban planning, including the redesign of Wellington and Portland to favor cyclists, court rulings on bike lane removal, and TTC crisis workers on Line 1. He also reports on municipal finance and development, from World Cup fan festival ticket plans to Premier Ford’s business-focused addresses and city election nominations. His work tracks how policy affects commutes, local businesses, neighborhood dynamics, road hazards, and school food programs, with a clear focus on practical community impact.

Leah Hendry stands out for reporting how policy, systems and economics shape people’s lives, especially in health and social issues and the cost of everyday living. She is an investigative reporter with CBC Montreal and works across TV, radio and online. Her beat covers health care under financial and access pressure, consumer rules and pricing, social inequity, historical harm, justice systems and accountability. She has reported on long COVID, firefighters’ cancer coverage, cold cases, vacant buildings, fire risks, ticket-resale rules and inflation’s effect on travel and treatment. Her work traces how public programs, regulations, enforcement and bureaucracy affect access, costs and outcomes. She uses survivor accounts, archival work, institutional records, data analysis and plain-language explanations to show how systems fail or succeed. She previously worked for CBC’s English services in Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg.

Leah Larocque covers how economic decisions, infrastructure and consumer issues play out in everyday life, bringing a business lens to Ottawa stories for CTV News Ottawa. She is a multi-skilled journalist contributing across television, radio and digital platforms, working in formats from on-air segments to online articles and social video. Her business beat focuses on cost of living, consumer protection, local development projects and the financial stakes behind public services. She reports on inflation’s impact on household budgets, scams and fraud, travel rules and airline decisions, and major development proposals such as the Tewin project. She also covers transit disruptions, education cuts, health care workforce trends and debates over teen social media. Her reporting is on location, grounded in interviews with residents and experts, and explains policy and financial decisions through their real-world consequences.

Liam Britten connects business decisions and public policy in essential services to their real-world consequences, using data and investigative reporting to show how they affect people’s daily lives. He is an award-winning journalist on the business beat for CBC, covering transportation systems, labour markets, seniors care and consumer protection. His recent work on B.C. Ferries uses detailed operational data to quantify cancellations and delays and explain how staffing, maintenance and capital planning drive missed sailings and longer waits. He reports on coastal leaders’ responses and the wider economic strain. He extends his business coverage into seniors care, real estate and financial scams, and reports on youth unemployment through interviews with employers, job seekers and experts. His business investigations follow money, regulation and enforcement across borders, using records and documents to show how decisions in boardrooms and government departments shape services, jobs and costs.

Lily Jamali links technology, corporate power and accountability, showing how big platforms and companies shape markets, regulation and everyday life. She is North America Technology Correspondent at the BBC, covering the business of technology with a focus on legal scrutiny of tech firms, the financial stakes behind innovation and the impact of corporate decisions. She reports on social media, TikTok, artificial intelligence and major tech platforms, explaining complex legal and policy disputes in clear terms. Her beat is rooted in business reporting and she fronts a weekly tech newsletter that highlights commercial strategies and market risk. Earlier, she reported for a national public radio business programme and a global business television programme focused on Asian markets, as well as regional newspapers and digital outlets. She works in on-air, podcast, video and written formats, using direct, analytic reporting grounded in legal, financial and operational context.

Martin Pelletier is an investment columnist known for turning institutional, macro and product-level complexity into clear, practical decisions for individual investors while calling out structures and sales tactics that threaten long-term outcomes. He writes a weekly commentary column on investment and personal finance that mixes analysis with prescriptive guidance. His work focuses on market structure, investment strategy and how shifts in institutional behaviour affect everyday portfolios, including fixed income, equity cycles and sector rotations. He covers portfolio construction, retirement planning and wealth management, stressing diversified, resilient portfolios, stage-of-life risk alignment and sustainable withdrawals. Pelletier scrutinizes investment products and sales practices, highlighting conflicts, costs and transparency. A consistent behavioural finance lens runs through his coverage, examining investor mistakes and mindset and emphasizing disciplined, rules-based decisions over short-term prediction.

Mary Cunningham focuses on how economic shifts and artificial intelligence affect ordinary workers, investors and consumers. She is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers the stock market, tech, energy prices, the job market and the broader economy. Her beat centers on AI, work and a changing economy, tracking job openings in AI-exposed occupations, vulnerable roles such as legal assistants and proofreaders, and the gap between corporate enthusiasm and younger workers’ anxiety. She reports on layoffs, workplace restructuring and entrepreneurship, including health insurance and tax issues for people starting businesses. A significant strand of her work covers personal finance and everyday investing, highlighting the limits and risks of AI tools and emphasizing practical steps. She draws on experience in both broadcast production and digital reporting, with past work at “60 Minutes,” CBSNews.com, CBS News 24/7 and bylines with Guardian US, City Limits and ClearHealthCosts.

Michael John Lo tracks how economic decisions and institutional change ripple through communities, with business coverage rooted in development projects, post-secondary finances and the day-to-day realities of local employers and workers. He is a reporter for the Times Colonist, where he covers breaking news, post-secondary issues and the changing face of the capital region through stories anchored in business activity and economic pressure. His reporting also appears in outlets such as Capital Daily, The Tyee, Coast Reporter, Prince George Citizen and Business in Vancouver, carrying the same focus on local change and the systems that shape it. He covers business development on Indigenous land, post-secondary revenue pressures, tourism, retail and labour market trends, reporting how macroeconomic and policy shifts are felt by front-line businesses, institutions and their communities.

Michelle Del Rey turns fast-moving political talkers and public spectacles into clear, accessible stories that show how national power plays land with ordinary people. She is a trending news reporter at USA TODAY focused on political talkers and Washington happenings that cut across policy, publicity and everyday life. Her beat includes Trump-branded ventures, immigration, quirky law and tax stories, and on-the-ground coverage of Washington events and landmarks. She reports in plain English, staying close to rhetoric, presentation and enforcement data to surface real policy and human stakes. Her background includes U.S. breaking news for an international publication, co-reported coverage of resentencing hearings for Erik and Lyle Menendez, and freelancing for local and national outlets. Across her work, she relies on direct observation, specific scenes and voices to connect individual moments to larger currents in American politics, business and culture.

Morgan Black traces how decisions in workplaces, schools and public services shape everyday life, with a focus on how policy and market forces affect workers, families, small businesses and rural producers. She is a reporter with CBC News in Edmonton and contributes regularly to Edmonton AM, working across audio, video and digital formats. Her beat centres on work and commerce, the downtown economy, supply pressures and education systems, including stories on office return policies, small-business concerns about inflation and demand, agricultural shortages and violence in classrooms. She reports through on-location coverage, surveys and detailed interviews with workers, business owners, farmers, teachers and service users. Her stories rely on concrete examples and firsthand accounts, showing how system pressures, shortages and rule changes translate into real-time reactions and economic and personal outcomes at street and classroom level.

Naimul Karim reports on the Canadian financial system by linking bank strategy, valuations and regulation to risks for consumers and the wider economy. He covers major lenders, tracking how share prices, balance sheets, dividend policy, loan-loss provisions and margins shape market expectations and investor sentiment. His work explains differences among the largest institutions and what their moves mean for bank customers and shareholders. He reports on legal and regulatory pressure, including class actions, consumer disputes and compliance issues, and how these feed back into risk management and product design. He covers technology and artificial intelligence in finance with a focus on risk, accountability and governance. He also reports on climate commitments and alliances, showing how decisions on fossil-fuel financing and transition plans affect balance sheets, stakeholder trust and long-term competitiveness.

Naomi Lai focuses on travel stories that zoom in on specific places and experiences, blending practical trip planning detail with a clear sense of why a destination matters right now. She writes for Islands, where she covers destinations, attractions, and developments that affect how and where people travel, with a particular eye on Canada and other easily reachable getaways. She reports on parks, small towns, and urban attractions through tightly scoped destination guides that spell out what to do, what to expect, and how to make a trip work on the ground. She also covers travel infrastructure and airline route decisions, translating cost pressures into clear consequences for leisure travelers. Beyond Islands, she works as a news editor at Explore and has been chronicling her trips on a personal travel blog since 2012, drawing on visits to 43 countries and full-time freelance work since 2019.

Natasha Bulowski reports on federal climate and energy policy as a political story, showing how cabinet decisions, party debates and legislative compromises shape Canada’s transition off fossil fuels. She is a reporter at Canada’s National Observer, where she has spent nearly five years on the federal politics beat with a focus on climate, energy and environmental policy. Her coverage follows clean electricity rules, industrial emissions caps, pipeline decisions and the obligations of oil and gas companies to clean up wells and other infrastructure. She reports on regulations, affordability and the business of decarbonization, linking complex rules to impacts on utilities, investors, fossil fuel companies and communities. Her work traces consultations, draft regulations and revisions, documenting how industry, provinces and political opponents influence the pace and direction of decarbonization.

Natasha O’Neill covers business and consumer issues for CityNews’ Ottawa newsroom, and her work stands out for turning everyday services into clear, time-sensitive reporting. She writes about local commerce, retail hours, statutory holidays and how policy and corporate decisions affect access to essential services. Her bylines also include food, media and popular culture, from profiling Natasha Kravchuk and the growth of Natasha’s Kitchen to covering The Girls on the Bus. She has reported on political incidents, including video that appears to show a person spitting on MP Marco Mendicino. Before CityNews, she covered major national stories at a television news outlet and municipal politics, planning and transit at a local publication, with an investigative focus on housing, policy and climate change.

Nathan Fung stands out for reporting how local institutions shape workers, residents and the day-to-day running of Ottawa. He is a reporter with CBC Ottawa, covering municipal and local business issues, with a focus on public services, events and the organizations that run them. His work tracks the operational effects of policy and management choices, not abstract politics. He covers public transit operations and labour, including O-Train shutdowns, understaffing and service reliability, and he reports on the internal challenges facing community groups behind major public events, such as Barrhaven’s Canada Day celebrations. He has also worked as a reporter in Hamilton and Edmonton and has experience as a multimedia journalist. His reporting is straight news, with clear headlines, concise explanations and direct sourcing from affected parties.

Robin Brown helps individual investors build long-term, tax-efficient wealth from Canadian stocks, combining growth with dependable passive income. He is a longtime contributor to The Motley Fool Canada, where he focuses on practical portfolio construction rather than market news. His real beat is Canadian equities on the TSX, viewed through a long-term, buy-and-hold lens, with stock picking pieces that favour clear business models, strong cash generation, and long operating histories. Brown links specific tickers and valuation metrics to TFSA and other tax-free investing strategies, showing how to deploy concrete amounts over defined horizons. He also covers passive income and dividends, balancing growth, blue-chip stability, and niche sectors. His reporting uses clear, straightforward language, specific numbers, and ongoing disclosure of his own holdings to build an investing playbook for durable, long-term wealth.

Roger Petersen is a business anchor at BNN Bloomberg whose distinct strength is compressing fast-moving stories across geopolitics, commodities and corporate news into a clear agenda for the trading day. He anchors The Daily Chase, a recurring feature on markets, economics and geopolitics that highlights one focal development and then lays out the broader economic backdrop for investors and companies. His beat is business and markets, with coverage linking corporate moves, sector stories, mergers and acquisitions, energy, agriculture, retail, trade, branding and local government finance to capital-market themes. He reports with a breaking-news sensibility shaped by years covering major events, and on air he conducts live interviews on corporate strategy, investing, health ventures, startups, infrastructure and trade policy, always grounding questions in practical impact on risk, opportunity and capital flows.

Sarah Ainsworth combines deal-focused reporting with opinionated analysis across the sovereign, supranational and agency bond markets as Deputy SSA editor at GlobalCapital. She covers sterling SSA deals, UK gilts and specialised structures, linking day-to-day issuance to central bank policy and government funding strategy. Her SSA stories centre on specific transactions and funding windows, explaining maturities, currencies, investor demand and why particular issuance slots open or close. Through GC View and Leader columns on gilts and aircraft e-note structures, she assesses market strain, product evolution and risk, not just headline deal terms. She extends this work into podcast discussions on credit conditions and the changing gilt market. A prior role as a senior journalist at a specialist derivatives outlet gives her reporting a strong grasp of repo facility changes, structured note mechanics and the interplay between credit, government bonds and derivatives.

Sasha Rogelberg reports on how business decisions ripple through politics, culture, and everyday life, with a focus on how younger workers, consumers, and online communities reshape corporate behavior. She is a reporter for Fortune, covering the overlap of internet culture, Gen Z, retail, and the future of work. Her work examines how political conflict and policy decisions change the calculus for companies, especially around travel, public-facing operations, and corporate speech. She explores how Gen Z, social media, emerging technologies, and expectations about mental health and work-life balance are changing work and management. Her retail coverage connects shopping trends to celebrity influence, viral fads, and shifting values. She also writes about health and inequality, asking who benefits from headline trends and who is left out. She centers clear explanation, timely news hooks, and expert analysis across business, politics, culture, and health.

Sneha Nahata focuses on practical, idea-driven coverage of Canadian equities with a clear tilt to long-term, buy-and-hold investing and using market volatility to advantage. She writes stock ideas and portfolio themes for Yahoo Finance and The Motley Fool Canada, anchored in TSX-listed names as building blocks of durable portfolios. Her beat is Canadian stocks, TFSA planning, passive income, and multi-year growth, often framed around short lists of two to five stocks with defined time horizons such as the next 12 months, the path into 2026, a decade-long hold, or “forever” ownership. She highlights buying quality on temporary weakness, uses concrete TFSA and passive income targets, and regularly brings ethical and sustainable investing angles into her work, treating ESG and low-carbon strategies as part of the same long-term equity lens.

Sneha Nahata focuses on actionable stock ideas for individual investors, with clear time horizons and investment goals, from lifelong monthly income to stocks to hold forever. She writes for The Motley Fool Canada and her coverage is syndicated by Yahoo Finance, giving her work a consistent retail-investing lens. Her beat is practical investing for Canadian equities, with an emphasis on dividend income, TSX-listed buy-and-hold stocks, and affordable names that fit modest capital and tax-sheltered accounts. She builds pieces around usable portfolio structures, watch lists, and list-based stock picks tied to cash flows, growth, or stability. She also covers growth stocks, macro and policy backdrops, and sustainable and ethical investing, treating low-carbon ETFs and values-led stocks as part of the same toolkit. Her reporting is idea-first service journalism, grounded in fundamentals and repeatable approaches.

Sobia Moman is a multimedia journalist whose Surrey reporting for the Vancouver Sun tracks how civic and business decisions shape local workers, residents and communities. She covers Surrey city council, transit funding, housing policy and public safety, with a focus on council debates, infrastructure planning, governance and financing. Her work links affordable housing to workforce needs and service delivery, treating housing as civic infrastructure tied to labour and the local economy. She also reports on crime and community safety where social and cultural concerns overlap, including coverage of a provincial task force on extortions targeting the South Asian community. Previously at Peace Arch News, her community-newspaper coverage of municipal affairs earned a Canadian Community Newspaper Award for best local civic reporting. She reports in a multimedia format, using writing, photography and video to show the ground-level impact of policy and business decisions.

Staff leads The Curator franchise at Global News, offering service journalism that turns business news into clear shopping choices. The Staff byline signals newsroom-produced roundups rather than a single reporter, pulling together multiple sources into cohesive guides. Their Curator work focuses on seasonal retail events, limited-time offers and curated product lists, highlighting notable discounts and product picks across furniture, fashion and other lifestyle sectors. Coverage is organized around specific sales windows, featured brands and recognizable retailers, with price points and product types assessed through a simple “is this worth buying now” lens. Articles are built as concise deal roundups with direct, utilitarian tone, using clear categorizations and brand-led structure so readers can quickly compare options and act on promotions, prioritizing household spending decisions over corporate strategy or market moves.

Stephen Hunt reports on how economic development, public policy and community life intersect, with a steady focus on jobs, local impact and the people behind major decisions. He is a digital producer at CTV News, a role he has held since July 2019, writing, editing and packaging business and general assignment stories across the site. His brief spans city politics, local crime, sports culture and major industry developments, and he moves between breaking news and longer explainers. He often covers large industrial and aerospace projects, looking at employment, diversification and how big announcements translate into concrete opportunities. He also reports on local crime, policing and their effects on small businesses and community safety. His arts, culture and education stories treat heritage and learning as parts of the civic and economic ecosystem, and he at times explains how his newsroom thinks about quality and accountability.

Stephen Tipper covers the tension between resource development and environmental or agricultural concerns, treating energy, coal and land use as core business issues. He reports for the Calgary Herald within the Postmedia Network, contributing reporting and photography across its brands. His beat is southern Alberta’s economy and business landscape, with a focus on how policy, markets and costs affect local industries and communities. He writes on regulatory investigations, enforcement actions by provincial regulators, and regional development and resource debates. He follows economic campaigns and advocacy around coal and water use, including petition drives such as Water Not Coal. He reports on agriculture as a business beat, tracking input costs and rural economics, and covers political decisions when they drive economic outcomes, linking infrastructure plans and provincial strategies to business confidence and investment.

Surbhi Misra is a business reporter who connects corporate moves, labour trends and capital flows to shifting economic, policy and technology cycles, with a particular focus on India’s business landscape. She covers Corporate India through earnings, sector strategy and deal news, tracking listed and mid-cap companies, consumption-linked sectors and how margins, volumes, pricing power and input costs drive performance. Her reporting on commercial real estate and hospitality treats office leasing and hotel expansion as signals of India’s growth, using concrete metrics and executive commentary. She follows labour markets, workforce data and the impact of technology on hiring models, blending data with on-the-record guidance. She also contributes to coverage of global deals, funding rounds, technology infrastructure investment, trade measures and occasional major international breaking news.

Tim Durkin is distinct for his steady focus on how energy infrastructure and business crime shape the economic life of local communities. He is News Director at Quinte News and reports on the economic impact of major projects, with emphasis on power generation and storage facilities. He has covered a $600-million battery storage facility in Greater Napanee, a natural gas plant tied to a major energy deal, and the Pickering plant refurbishment and its link to possible pumped storage in Marmora. He also documents thefts, break-ins, business disturbances, and fraud schemes affecting residents and local businesses. Across both energy and crime coverage, he reports in detail on specific projects and incidents while keeping attention on community impact rather than corporate interests.

Tyler Searle reports on how business decisions and public policy play out in everyday life, with a focus on liquor retail, city institutions and the people affected by them. He is a reporter and multimedia producer for the Winnipeg Free Press city desk, where he has been covering a wide range of local stories since 2022. His distinct work follows the business and policy dimensions of liquor retail, boycotts and trade, using national data and industry perspectives to show how provincial choices shape sales, shelves and cross-border impacts. Beyond liquor, he covers city governance, policing, hate crimes, emergencies, education and social services, connecting institutional decisions to daily life through document-driven reporting, expert voices and resident experiences. He mixes breaking news, briefings and features, starting from concrete events and widening out to explain the systems behind them.

Vladimir Zernov is a trader and analyst who treats markets as a map of trading levels, turning real‑time moves into concise, event‑driven forecasts for FX Empire. He focuses on short‑term price action in energy, metals, forex and indices, tracking support and resistance and tying each move to macro and geopolitical catalysts. His recurring “Natural Gas, WTI Oil, Brent Oil Forecasts” and “Gold, Silver, Platinum Forecasts” link oil, gas and bullion swings to negotiations, sanctions, policy decisions and dollar strength. He reports in the language of practitioners, using precise price corridors, moving averages and RSI to spell out upside and downside scenarios. With more than 18 years of experience as an independent trader across stocks, commodities, forex, cryptocurrencies and indices, he writes level‑based notes that show how news translates into concrete trading setups.