She & Success Business Magazine, supported by exclusive shipping partner Purolator, has announced the launch of the She & Success Business Awards. Nominations are now open at https://sheandsuccessawards.ca/ and close June 30, 2026, at midnight (EST). The awards celebrate the outstanding contributions of women entrepreneurs, founders, executives, creators, and community leaders who are transforming Canadian business. Any female entrepreneur currently working in Canada is eligible. 

 

Global audio streaming service Spotify is launching a new format – narrated magazine articles – that will expand its current content repertoire. Over 650 long-form magazine articles are now available in English to users of Spotify Audiobooks. ‘Articles’, the curated collection, will include stories from magazines such as Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, WIRED, Vanity Fair, and Pitchfork. Each narrated article will be under two hours long.

 Vividata’s Spring 2026 Cross-Media Update has revealed that more than 16 million Canadians read newspapers each week in both print and digital formats. This figure has remained relatively consistent over time. Quebec and BC continue to outperform other regions on reach in both formats, while French Canadians are more likely to engage with newspaper content via digital. Overall, Canadians are spending about 2.3 hours per week reading printed editions and 7.8 hours reading digital content.

 

Vicki Wood, Editor of Pharmacy Practice + Business and CanadianHealthcareNetwork.ca, is the 2026 recipient of the B2B Leadership Award, the highest individual honour that the National Magazine Awards: B2B can bestow. The award recognizes outstanding achievements in B2B media. Judges were impressed by her ability to nurture and develop writers by creating a space for them to grow without micro-management. Her leadership was also demonstrated by guiding successful mergers and transitions in ownership and brands.

 

Journalist Neville Nankivell, Editor, Publisher and Columnist for the Financial Post, died on May 3, 2026, at his home in Ottawa. He was 91. For more than 40 years, Nankivell helped shape Canadian business journalism. Colleagues remembered him as an incisive editor, accomplished writer, and kind mentor whose intellect left a lasting impression on generations of reporters and editors. Born December 8, 1934, in Cottesloe, Western Australia, Nankivell studied economics at the University of Western Australia before emigrating to Canada in 1956.

 

Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Globe and Mail, is retiring at the end of May 2026 after a remarkable career that started in the Parliamentary Bureau of NewsRadio in 1978. Fife worked for The Canadian Press, Sun Media, National Post, and CanWest News Service, before joining CTV as Ottawa Bureau Chief in 2005 and hosting Question Period. He’s been with The Globe since 2015. Most recently, the 71-year-old Chapleau, Ontario native was honoured with a Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) Lifetime Achievement Award.

 Following “a comprehensive review of its flyer distribution operations across Canada,” Postmedia Network, a Canadian news media company representing more than 110 brands, has made the strategic decision to exit the flyer distribution business. Operations will end on a phased basis starting June 8, 2026, and should be completed in full by August 31. The decision will impact about 50 full-time and 200 part-time workers.