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Anita Balakrishnan

Reporter

Anita Balakrishnan covers Canada’s professional services sector. Her beat includes global accounting and consulting firms, the legal industry, and investments in the mining industry. She previously covered the auto industry and automotive tech. Before joining The Logic in 2021, Anita was a business reporter and editor at The Canadian Press and at Thomson Reuters’ Law Times, and was a tech and business reporter for CNBC.com. She is based in Toronto.

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Articles by Anita Balakrishnan

Manulife and Intact buck a global trend by reporting AI returns

https://thelogic.co/news/ai-investments-returns-manulife-intact/

By Anita Balakrishnan | Jun 16, 2026

The two Canadian insurers are a rarity in an industry that has so far failed to show if AI investments are paying off

Briefing

IPOs need to be easier for startups if Canada wants 1,000 Shopifys, Champagne says

https://thelogic.co/briefing/ipos-need-to-be-easier-for-startups-if-canada-wants-1000-shopifys-champagne-says/

By Anita Balakrishnan | Jun 15, 2026

Briefing

TMX Group acquires RAFI Indices for $683M

https://thelogic.co/briefing/tmx-group-acquires-rafi-indices-for-683m/

By Anita Balakrishnan | Jun 12, 2026

Bay Street backs Canada’s AI strategy, but warns the devil is in the details

https://thelogic.co/news/bay-street-backs-ai-strategy-short-details/

By Anita Balakrishnan and Chaimae Chouiekh | Jun 10, 2026

Many major financial firms support the new AI plan but say it is short on tax and privacy details

Nations Royalty was Canada’s first majority-Indigenous-owned public company. It doesn’t want to be the exception

https://thelogic.co/news/nations-royalty-encourage-indigenous-groups-public-market/

By Anita Balakrishnan | Jun 10, 2026

The company is working with TMX Group to encourage Indigenous communities to use public markets to build long-term wealth

Briefing

Self-driving truck firm Gatik expands Pepsi delivery deal

https://thelogic.co/briefing/self-driving-truck-firm-gatik-expands-pepsi-delivery-deal/

By Anita Balakrishnan | Jun 8, 2026

Briefing

Berkshire Hathaway to buy Taylor Morrison in Abel’s first major deal as CEO

https://thelogic.co/briefing/berkshire-hathaway-to-buy-taylor-morrison-in-abels-first-major-deal-as-ceo/

By Anita Balakrishnan | Jun 1, 2026

RBC Insurance chief to depart in shakeup of key strategic role

https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/rbc-insurance-head-departure-shakeup/

By Chaimae Chouiekh and Anita Balakrishnan | May 27, 2026

Jennifer Publicover’s exit comes as the bank works to tighten ties between its insurance, personal banking and wealth-management businesses

KPMG’s AI whisperer says some Bay Street firms are falling into a productivity trap

https://thelogic.co/news/kpmg-ai-whisperer-bay-street-productivity/

By Anita Balakrishnan | May 27, 2026

The consulting firm hopes Andrew Forde will bring “evidence, not hype,” to corporate AI adoption

Andrew Forde, wearing a beige tweed blazer, black slacks and a white sweater, speaks on a stage at the Elevate conference in Toronto with three large blue screens in the backdrop. One screen displays the session topic, AI, another displays the logos for sponsors KPMG and Google, and a third screen depicts a photo of a stop sign covered in stickers. The stop-sign photo is labelled, “Stickers that beat supercomputers.”

Briefing

Government should not pick winners, Clio CEO says

https://thelogic.co/briefing/government-should-not-pick-winners-clio-ceo-says/

By Anita Balakrishnan | May 26, 2026