Jason Contant is an Associate Editor at Canadian Underwriter. He has been an award-winning journalist for over a decade, focusing on themes such as insurance, construction and real estate, climate change, and finance. Jason's work has been featured in The Weekly Voice LTD and Canadian Underwriter.
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Jason Contant, with a national focus on Canada and Toronto, covers diverse topics within business and industry. His articles often cite data and report government announcements. Therefore, he would likely be interested in expert analysis or commentary based on credible data related to insurance, cybersecurity issues, natural disasters (such as wildfires), mergers & acquisitions within the Canadian business landscape.
Given his coverage of real estate industry matters such as high insurance costs for homeowners and its connection to natural disasters like wildfires, pitches could offer insights into trends impacting real estate markets from an economic or regulatory perspective across Canada or specific regions like Toronto.
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By: Jason Contant
The targeted launched date for CSIO's real-time, seamless data connectivity solution is the second quarter of 2027.
By: Jason Contant
The 1,400 firefighters battling blazes across British Columbia have been reinforced by 200 Mexican firefighters.
By: Jason Contant
The couple found virtually every restoration company in Niagara was overwhelmed, as local crews scrambled to respond to flood after flood.
Auto theft in Canada declined 10.1% in the first six months of 2026 compared to the same period a year ago, says Équité Association.
By: Jason Contant
The project involves an Alberta to British Columbia pipeline as well as the Pathways Project, a carbon capture and storage project.
By: Jason Contant
Historically, some standard policies simply don't contemplate underground CO2 leakage or loss of carbon credits as insurable events.
After nearly 20 years in the industry, Youngs Insurance's David Mercier believes there's always something new to learn.
Among the proposed changes are updated floodplain policies that expand detailed mapping from 28 to 96 waterbodies.
Event planners and organizers should factor insurance costs into budgets from the outset, says HDI's Michael McDermott.
To date, Intact Financial Corporation has deployed about 600 AI models in its operations at scale, the insurer's COO says.
