Awards presentation

Nominees and winners 2024

IR Rankings – Canada Top 50 2024

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Winners and runners-up

This section lists the the winners and runners-up in each researched IR award category, as voted for by the investment community

Best overall investor relations (large cap)
1	Agnico Eagle Mines
2	WSP Global
3	Canadian Pacific Kansas City
4	Fortis

Best overall investor relations (mid-cap)
1	Stantec
2	Element Fleet Management
3	Alamos Gold
4	Equitable Bank

Best overall investor relations (small cap)
1	Aecon Group
2	Black Diamond Group
3	AGI
4	Torex Gold Resources

Best investor relations officer (large cap)
1	Canadian Pacific Kansas City	Chris de Bruyn
2	Agnico Eagle Mines	Jean-Marie Clouet
3	WSP Global	Quentin Weber
4	RBC	Asim Imran

Best investor relations officer (mid-cap)
1	Alamos Gold	Scott Parsons
2	Element Fleet Management	Michael Barrett
3	AltaGas	Adam McKnight
=4	BRP	Philippe Deschênes
=4	Definity Financial Corporation	Dennis Westfall

Best investor relations officer (small cap)
1	Aecon Group	Adam Borgatti
2	Black Diamond Group	Jason Zhang
3	Calian Group	Jennifer McCaughey
4	Cineplex	Mahsa Rejali

Best IR by a senior management team (large cap)
1	Agnico Eagle Mines	Ammar Al-Joundi, CEO & Jamie Porter, CFO
2	Brookfield Corporation	Bruce Flatt, CEO & Nicholas Goodman, CFO
=3	Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust	Mario Barrafato, CFO & Rael Diamond, CEO
=3	Franco-Nevada Corporation	Paul Brink, CEO & Sandip Rana, CFO

Best IR by a senior management team (mid-cap)
1	Stantec	Theresa Jang, CFO & Gord Johnston, CEO
2	Equitable Bank	Andrew Moor, CEO & Chadwick Westlake, CFO
3	CAE	Sonya Branco, CFO & Marc Parent, CEO
4	Alamos Gold	Greg Fisher, CFO & John McCluskey, CEO

Best IR by a senior management team (small cap)
=1	AGI	Paul Householder, CEO & Jim Rudyk, CFO
=1	Polaris Renewable Energy	Anton Jelic, CFO & Marc Murnaghan, CEO
3	Torex Gold Resources	Jody Kuzenko, CEO & Andrew Snowden, CFO
=4	Aecon Group	Jean-Louis Servranckx, CEO & David Smales*, CFO
=4	Badger Infrastructure Solutions	Rob Blackadar, CEO & Rob Dawson, CFO
*David Smales left Aecon Group in January 2024 and is now CFO of Maple Leaf Foods

Best financial reporting
1	Stantec
2	WSP Global
3	CAE
4	Franco-Nevada Corporation

Best use of technology for IR
1	Agnico Eagle Mines
2	WSP Global
3	Fortis
4	Bombardier

Best investor meetings
1	Agnico Eagle Mines
2	Stantec
3	Element Fleet Management
4	Canadian Pacific Kansas City

Best corporate governance & disclosure
1	Stantec
2	WSP Global
3	CAE
4	Agnico Eagle Mines

Best sustainability communications
1	WSP Global
2	Stantec
3	CN
4	Aecon Group

Most progress in IR
1	Shopify
2	Osisko Gold Royalties
=3	Equitable Bank
=3	Restaurant Brands International

Best IR by a Canadian company in the US market*
1	Restaurant Brands International
2	Canadian Pacific Kansas City
=3	lululemon athletica
=3	Shopify
*These points are not included in the rankings

Large, mid and small-cap companies are determined by the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture indices at at July 31, 2023. Sectors determined by Bloomberg.

Large-cap companies are those with a market cap above C$10 bn. Mid-cap companies are those with a market cap between C$2 bn and C$10 bn. Small-cap companies are those with a market cap below C$2 bn.

IR Rankings – Canada Top 50 2024

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Winners and runners-up

This section lists the top four companies in each sector, as determined by their scores across the voted-for research categories

Communications
1	Rogers Communications
2	BCE
3	TELUS
4	Quebecor

Consumer discretionary
1	Restaurant Brands International
2	BRP
3	Gildan Activewear
4	Spin Master

Consumer staples
1	Loblaw Companies
2	Dollarama
3	Jamieson Wellness
=4	Alimentation Couche-Tard
=4	Maple Leaf Foods

Energy
1	Cenovus Energy
2	Parkland Corporation
3	Canadian Natural Resources
4	Suncor Energy

Financials
1	Brookfield Corporation
2	Equitable Bank
3	Intact Financial Corporation
4	Definity Financial Corporation

Healthcare
1	WELL Health Technologies Corp
=2	Calian Group
=2	Cardiol Therapeutics
4	dentalcorp Holdings

IR Rankings – Canada Top 50 2024

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Industrials
1	Stantec
2	WSP Global
3	Element Fleet Management
4	Canadian Pacific Kansas City

Materials
1	Agnico Eagle Mines
2	Alamos Gold
3	Teck Resources
4	Franco-Nevada Corporation

Real estate
1	Altus Group
2	Colliers International Group
3	Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust
4	FirstService Corporation

Technology
1	Shopify
2	CGI Group
=3	OpenText Corporation
=3	Tecsys

Utilities
1	Fortis
2	Hydro One
3	Brookfield Infrastructure Partners
4	Emera

If you have any questions or suggestions for the IR Magazine Research team about details included in this report, please get in touch with our head of research Ash Govender at ash.govender@irmagazine.com.