The Canadian Business Media awards—formerly known as the KRW Awards— were handed out on Tuesday, celebrating the best in Canadian B2B publishing.

Judges nominated 141 submissions from 36 different B2B magazines. Gold, Silver and Honourable Mention awards were presented in 21 written, visual, integrated and special categories at the Grand Banking Hall at One King West in Toronto.

One of the biggest awards of the night—Magazine of the Year— went to Marketing magazine. The publication also won silver in Best Regularly Featured Department, Column or Blog. They also received 4 honourable mentions in Best Issue, Best Art Direction of an Opening Spread, Best Art Direction of an Entire Issue, and Best Merchandising/Marketing Article.

The Harvey Southam Award was presented to Michel Dongois, senior journalist at Profession Santé. He was recognized for his outstanding professionalism, integrity and humanism.

University Affairs took home the most Gold awards of the evening, including Best Issue, Best Cover, Best Photograph and Best Art Direction of an Opening Spread or Complete Feature.

CPA magazine took home three Gold awards including Best How-To or Series of How-To Articles, Best Profile of a Company and Best Infrastructure/Resource Article. The publication also won three silver awards in Best How-To Article or Series of How-To Articles, Best One-Of-A-Kind Article and Best Profile of a Company, and earned nineteen honourable mentions in written, visual and integrated categories.

Top winners that night were:


Visit the website for a complete list of winners.

Click here for a gallery from the event.

Congratulations to all of this year’s winners!