Zane Schwartz

Senior Reporter

Zane Schwartz was a reporter at The Logic. Previously at the National Post and Maclean’s, he was the 2017 Michelle Lang Fellow in Journalism, building a searchable database of five million political donations. He won a Data Journalism Award from the Global Editors Network in 2018 for the project. In both 2017 and 2018 he won the Goff Penny Award, given to the best young newspaper journalist in Canada. In 2019, he won the Project of the Year award from the National Newspaper Awards and was named the Best Young Journalist by the Canadian chapter of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.

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Articles by Zane Schwartz

COVID-19 roundup: StatCan data highlights inequalities in pandemic’s impact

https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-statcan-data-highlights-inequalities-in-pandemics-impact/

By Murad Hemmadi, Zane Schwartz, Fatima Syed and Martin Patriquin | Jul 6, 2020

The pandemic has affected the ability of members of visible minority groups to meet their financial obligations and essential needs much more significantly than for white people, according to new crowdsourced data from Statistics Canada

Briefing

Clearview AI stops offering facial recognition technology in Canada due to privacy investigation

https://thelogic.co/briefing/clearview-ai-stops-offering-facial-recognition-technology-in-canada-due-to-privacy-investigation/

By Zane Schwartz | Jul 6, 2020

Briefing

Montreal fintech Flinks raises $16.2-million round led by National Bank

https://thelogic.co/briefing/montreal-fintech-flinks-raises-16-2-million-round-led-by-national-bank/

By Zane Schwartz | Jul 6, 2020

COVID-19 roundup: Ottawa mum on companies’ CEWS use

https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-ottawa-mum-on-companies-cews-use/

By Fatima Syed, Murad Hemmadi, Zane Schwartz and Catherine McIntyre | Jun 26, 2020

Ottawa doesn’t plan to reveal how much individual employers received from the federal wage-subsidy program to pay their workers during the pandemic

Briefing

Ottawa selects MDA to build next Canadarm

https://thelogic.co/briefing/ottawa-selects-mda-to-build-next-canadarm/

By Zane Schwartz | Jun 26, 2020

Briefing

Smart-glasses maker North in final stages of selling itself to Alphabet for about US$180 million

https://thelogic.co/briefing/smart-glasses-maker-north-in-final-stages-of-selling-itself-to-alphabet-for-about-us180-million/

By Zane Schwartz | Jun 26, 2020

Briefing

Amazon acquiring self-driving-car developer Zoox

https://thelogic.co/briefing/amazon-acquiring-self-driving-car-developer-zoox/

By Zane Schwartz | Jun 26, 2020

COVID-19 roundup: RBC CEO calls on policymakers to ‘incent risk capital’

https://thelogic.co/news/covid-19-roundup-rbc-ceo-calls-on-policymakers-to-incent-risk-capital/

By Murad Hemmadi, Fatima Syed, Zane Schwartz and Catherine McIntyre | Jun 25, 2020

“We've got good risk capital in Canada, but we need external risk capital to take advantage of the new supply chains if we’re going to build new companies [and] services … in the digital world,” he told a virtual audience tuning in to the Collision from Home conference on Thursday