2019

McGill Desautels Faculty of Management in Collaboration with RBC Future Launch and The Globe and Mail Launch National Personal Finance Course

To help Canadians better understand how to manage their personal finances, McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management has collaborated with RBC Future Launch and The Globe and Mail to increase access to, and deliver personal finance education to all Canadians across the country for free. The McGill Personal Finance Essentials program launches today, which marks the start of financial literacy month in Canada. Read more…

The Globe and Mail Report on Business announces Canada’s Top Five CEOs of 2019

CEO of the Year to be announced at November 25 gala

The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business today announced Canada’s top leaders of 2019 as part of its annual CEO of the Year award feature. The five CEOs represent the best of Canadian corporate leadership, innovation, vision, and responsibility. 

“Although in the past we’ve focused on a single CEO for the prestigious CEO of the Year honor, this year we changed the process so we could better acknowledge the breadth of leaders and leadership strengths in Canada,” said Derek DeCloet, Executive Editor of Report on Business at The Globe and Mail. “This provides Canadians with more insight about the people who are leading our country’s most successful companies.” Read more…

The Globe and Mail launches new brand platform

Today The Globe and Mail launched its new brand campaign, Power to the Informed. Created with Cossette, the campaign delves deep into the power of Globe content and how it can improve readers’ everyday lives, from what wine to serve at dinner to how to manage an investment portfolio. Read more…

New to The Globe: Listen to articles in English, French or Mandarin

Listen to most of our content whenever or wherever you want - you just need an internet connection. Whether you’re cooking dinner or on your commute, hit play and listen to your selected article read out loud. The new listening experience is available in English, French and Mandarin.

Built with the help of the Amazon Web Services team and their Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning services, we are the first in Canada to use Amazon Polly Newscaster, a text-to-speech service with real-time translation. Read more…

World’s top war photojournalists together for first time at Shooting War: Covering 50 Years of Conflict

Astronaut and photographer Chris Hadfield joins as panel moderator

Eleven of the world’s top conflict photographers will be in Toronto on June 22 to discuss what motivates them to bear witness to some of the world’s worst inhumanities, and the emotional impact such experiences have caused.

The event, hosted by The Globe and Mail, will be at the TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King Street West) and runs from 9 am to 6:30 pm. It follows from the work of renowned neuropsychiatrist Dr. Anthony Feinstein (professor at the University of Toronto and associate scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre) who has researched stress and emotional health in front-line journalists. Read more…

The Globe and Mail relaunches browser extension to monitor Facebook ads ahead of Canadian election

Political ad collector created by U.S. investigative journalism non-profit ProPublica in 2017

 The Globe and Mail is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Facebook Political Ad Collector (FBPAC), an online tool designed to monitor political advertising on Facebook. The collector, a web browser extension that can be downloaded by users, was built in 2017 by ProPublica as a tool to help create more transparency about the modern electoral landscape. Read more…