Aleksandra Sagan becomes The Logic’s first Vancouver correspondent. Vanmala Subramaniam joins The Logic’s Toronto newsroom as a reporter. Sarmishta Subramanian joins The Logic as consulting editor. Read more in this note to staff from our managing editor, Jordan Timm:

Folks,

I’m pleased to announce some new additions to our newsroom.

Aleksandra Sagan becomes The Logic’s first correspondent in British Columbia. She joins us after more than four years as a business reporter at The Canadian Press, where she covered technology, retail and food and agriculture. She’s broken news about the relaunch of Carrot Rewards, has covered the deployment of technology in the Canadian grocery wars, and has reported on Big Tech’s expanding Vancouver footprint. She was previously a senior writer at CBC. In 2018 she was the co-recipient of the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship, which saw her and a Canadian Press colleague travel to India and South Africa to report on antimicrobial resistance. Their six-part series on superbugs won the Canadian Association of Journalists’ Don McGillivray Award for best investigative piece. Aleksandra will be based in Vancouver.

Vanmala Subramaniam joins The Logic’s reporting team in Toronto. A business journalist with over a decade of reporting across Canadian media, she joins us from the Financial Post, where she covered the cannabis industry. As the Post’s cannabis reporter she investigated and broke stories on the biggest names in legal cannabis, establishing herself as a must-read for anybody with a stake in the nascent industry. Prior to that she led Vice Canada’s Money vertical, where her areas of coverage included the housing market. She began her career as a television producer at the CBC, working on various business and current affairs programs including The Fifth Estate. She has travelled the world producing investigative documentaries, including one from the ground in Indonesia on the wrongful conviction of Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman which was instrumental in securing Bantleman’s freedom.

Aleksandra and Vanmala both join The Logic on September 8. 

As most of you know, Sarmishta Subramanian joined the editorial team earlier this summer on a part-time basis as consulting editor. She is one of the country’s most gifted editors, adept at handling everything from business coverage to investigations, features to columns. Also an editor-at-large at Maclean’s, Sarmishta was previously editor-in-chief of the Literary Review of Canada, a founding editor of The Walrus, and a senior-level editor at the National Post, Saturday Night, the Toronto Star and Maclean’s. Her writing has appeared in many of those publications, and she is the editor of Best Canadian Essays 2020, forthcoming later this year. She is also host and co-producer of the podcast The Power of One, and has produced award-winning radio documentaries for CBC’s The Sunday Edition. Several of our recently published features have benefited from her expert oversight, and I’m looking forward to continuing to work with her as our reporting team grows.

Aleksandra, Vanmala and Sarmishta are outstanding journalists, superb professionals and wonderful people. I could not be more excited to have them on our team. Please join me in welcoming them to The Logic.

Jordan