He special­izes in investigations, data journalism and features. His work has been nomi­nated for eleven National Newspaper Awards, many of them for group efforts on social justice issues. In 2002 he led a Michener Award-winning investigative series into race, policing and crime in Toronto, which led to repeated investigations into the police practice of carding. Other recent stories Rankin worked on revealed racial disparities in Ontario’s child protec­tion system, jail populations and school suspen­sions. He was also part of a team that produced a 2015 series on murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.