A collage featuring a headshot of a woman smiling at the camera, and the cover of her book.Alexandra Posadzki is the author of Rogers V. Rogers: The Battle for Control of Canada’s Telecom Empire. (Brent Rose, McClelland & Stewart)

Alexandra Posadzki’s behind-the-scenes look at the power struggle at Rogers Communications Inc. is one of three finalists for the National Business Book Award.

The $30,000 prize, now in its 40th year, recognizes the best business-related writing and research in Canada

Posadzki is a Toronto-based business reporter for the Globe and Mail. Rogers v. Rogers is a detailed investigative account of the battle for control of Rogers, Canada’s largest wireless carrier.

Posadzki’s coverage of the telecom empire and its rules of corporate governance exposes the high-stakes disputes between the factions within the company’s boardroom and the Rogers family. The book is set to be adapted as a play that will debut later this year.

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Rogers v. Rogers is joined on the short list by past winner Jeff Rubin’s A Map of the New Normal: How Inflation, War and Sanctions Will Change Your World Forever.

The book analyzes the political and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the interconnected nature of war in Eurasia, the functioning of central banks, foreign markets and global supply chains to show how governments and corporations have an immense impact on the state of western everyday life.

Rubin is a Canadian economist who specializes in trade and energy. He is the author of several books, including The Carbon Bubble and Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller.

Rounding out the list of finalists is To Make A Killing: Arthur Cutten, The Man Who Ruled the Markets by Robert Stephens, a former Ontario business journalist who died earlier this year.

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Stephens spent a decade researching Cutten, a Canadian from Guelph, Ont., who had a hand in shaping the U.S. commodities business and amassed an unprecedented fortune in the grain business and on the stock exchange.

The 2025 winner will be selected by an independent jury and will be announced at a Toronto event on Oct. 21. 

Last year’s winner was The Next Age of Uncertainty by Stephen Poloz.

Previous winners include Billion Dollar Start-up by Adam Miron, Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland, The Patch by Chris Turner and Viva MAC by Andrea Benoit. 

– With files from The Canadian Press