Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

Given by Writers' Trust of Canada

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The prize is awarded annually to a non-fiction book that captures a political subject of interest to Canadian readers and enhances our understanding of the issue. The winning work combines compelling näytä lisää new insights with depth of research and is of significant literary merit. Strong consideration is given to books that, in the opinion of the jury, have the potential to shape or influence Canadian political life. The winner of the prize recieves $25,000 while finalists each recieve $2,500. The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing was established in honour of the outspoken and popular Member of Parliament from Windsor, Ontario, who died on December 9, 1998. näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Shortlist (90), No Stage (22)
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (4), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (3), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (5)

Shortlist 90

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Kinauvit? : What's Your Name? the Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter's Search for Her Grandmother (tekijä: Dr. Norma Dunning)2023
From Left to Right: Saskatchewan's Political and Economic Transformation (tekijä: DALE EISLER)2023
Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy (tekijä: Josh O'Kane)2023
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation (tekijä: Andrew Stobo Sniderman)2023
How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World (tekijä: Chris Turner)2023
The Two Michaels: Innocent Canadian Captives and High Stakes Espionage in the US-China Cyber War (tekijä: Fen Osler Hampson)2022
Flora!: A Woman in a Man's World (tekijä: Flora MacDonald)2022
The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future (tekijä: Stephen Poloz)2022
"Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power (tekijä: Jody Wilson-Raybould)2022
Can You Hear Me Now?: How I Found My Voice and Learned to Live with Passion and Purpose (tekijä: Celina Caesar-Chavannes)2020
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power (tekijä: Desmond Cole)2020
Whipped: Party Discipline in Canada (Communication, Strategy, and Politics) (tekijä: Alex Marland)2020
The Abortion Caravan: When Women Shut Down Government in the Battled for the Right to Choose (A Feminist History Society Book (11)) (tekijä: Karin Wells)2020
Canada on the United Nations Security Council: A Small Power on a Large Stage (tekijä: Adam Chapnick)2019
Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada (tekijä: Harold R. Johnson)2019
Claws of the Panda: Beijing's Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada (tekijä: Jonathan Manthorpe)2019
Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case (tekijä: Kent Roach)2019
Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro (tekijä: Sarah Cox)2018
Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada's Energy Future (tekijä: Jacques Poitras)2018
Homes: A Refugee Story (tekijä: Abu Bakr al Rabeeah)2018
Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees (tekijä: Harley Rustad)2018
Unbuttoned : a history of Mackenzie King's secret life (tekijä: Christopher Dummitt)2017
All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others (tekijä: Carol Off)2017
Out Standing in the Field: A Memoir by Canada's First Female Infantry Officer (tekijä: Sandra Perron)2017
Robert Bond: The Greatest Newfoundlander (tekijä: Ted Rowe)2017
Life Sentence: Stories from Four Decades of Court Reporting -- or, How I Fell Out of Love with the Canadian Justice System (Especially Judges) (tekijä: Christie Blatchford)2016
The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War (tekijä: Ian McKay)2016
Turmoil, as Usual: Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the road to the 2015 election (tekijä: JAMES McLEOD)2016
The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail (tekijä: Noah Richler)2016
Grit: The Life and Politics of Paul Martin Sr. (C. D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History) (tekijä: Greg Donaghy)2015
O.D. Skelton : a portrait of Canadian ambition (tekijä: Norman Hillmer)2015
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand against the World's Most Powerful Industry (tekijä: Andrew Nikiforuk)2015
The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet (tekijä: Sheila Watt-Cloutier)2015
The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was (tekijä: Chantal Hébert)2014
Tämä muuttaa kaiken : kapitalismi vs ilmasto (tekijä: Naomi Klein)2014
The Comeback: How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence (tekijä: John Ralston Saul)2014
What I Learned About Politics: Inside the Rise-and Collapse-of Nova Scotia's NDP Government (tekijä: Graham Steele)2014
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (tekijä: Margaret MacMillan)2013
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (tekijä: Charles Montgomery)2013
Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher?: How Government Decides and Why (tekijä: Donald J. Savoie)2013
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan (tekijä: Graeme Smith)2013
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (tekijä: Taras Grescoe)2012
What We Talk About When We Talk About War (tekijä: Noah Richler)2012
Chronic Condition: Why Canada's Health-Care System Needs to be Dragged into the 21st Century (tekijä: Jeffrey Simpson)2012
The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau, the Gang of Eight, and the Fight for Canada: The History of Canada (tekijä: Ron Graham)2011
Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965 (Trudeau, Son of Quebec, Father of Canada) (tekijä: Max Nemni)2011
Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests (tekijä: Andrew Nikiforuk)2011
Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border (tekijä: Jacques Poitras)2011
The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars Of Sam Hughes And General Arthur Currie (tekijä: Tim Cook)2010
Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America (tekijä: Shelagh D. Grant)2010
Harperland: The Politics of Control (tekijä: Lawrence Martin)2010
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World (tekijä: Doug Saunders)2010
Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World's Most Dangerous Places (tekijä: Terry Gould)2009
Who We Are: A Citizen's Manifesto (tekijä: Rudyard Griffiths)2009
Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village (tekijä: James Maskalyk)2009
René Lévesque (tekijä: Daniel Poliquin)2009
The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect (tekijä: Daphne Bramham)2008
The Sun Climbs Slow: The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice (tekijä: Erna Paris)2008
Where the Pavement Ends (tekijä: Marie Wadden)2008
Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America (tekijä: Chris Wood)2008
Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics-as-Usual (tekijä: Clive Doucet)2007
John A: The Man Who Made Us (tekijä: Richard J. Gwyn)2007
Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson: Rescuing Canadian Business From the Suds of Global Obscurity (tekijä: Andrea Mandel-Campbell)2007
The People's House of Commons: Theories of Democracy in Contention (tekijä: David E. Smith)2007
Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968 (tekijä: John English)2006
The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa (tekijä: Eddie Goldenberg)2006
The Washington Diaries: 1981-1989 (tekijä: Allan Gotlieb)2006
Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet (tekijä: Carol Off)2006
Loss Of Faith: How The Air India Bombers Got Away With Murder (tekijä: Kim Bolan)2005
Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada (tekijä: William Johnson)2005
How the Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies (tekijä: Amy Knight)2005
Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild (tekijä: Susanne Reber)2005
Future: Tense: The Coming World Order? (tekijä: Gwynne Dyer)2004
Who Killed the Canadian Military? (tekijä: J. L. Granatstein)2004
At Home in the World: Canada's Global Vision for the 21st Century (tekijä: Jennifer M. Welsh)2004
Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World (tekijä: Rex Weyler)2004
The Story of Jane Doe: A Book About Rape (tekijä: Jane Doe)2003
The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs are Conquering Canada (tekijä: Julian Sher)2003
Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State (tekijä: Stephen Clarkson)2002
Well of Lies: The Walkerton Water Tragedy (tekijä: Colin N. Perkel)2002
The Lawmakers: Judicial Power and the Shaping of Canadian Federalism (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) (tekijä: John T. Saywell)2002
Who Gets In: What's wrong with Canada's immigration program - and how to fix it (tekijä: Daniel Stoffman)2002
Another Season's Promise : Hope and Despair in Canada's Farm Country (tekijä: Ingeborg Boyens)2001
All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism (tekijä: Linda McQuaig)2001
"Until You Are Dead": Steven Truscott's Long Ride into History (tekijä: Julian Sher)2001
The Cult of Efficiency (tekijä: Janice Gross Stein)2001
Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America (tekijä: Victoria Freeman)2000
The Next Canada: In Search of Our Future Nation (tekijä: Myrna Kostash)2000
The Lion, the Fox and the Eagle (tekijä: Carol Off)2000
The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit (tekijä: Margaret A. Somerville)2000

No Stage 22

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China Unbound: A New World Disorder (tekijä: Joanna Chiu)2022
Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society (tekijä: Ronald J. Deibert)2020
Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law (tekijä: Beverley Mclachlin)2019
Boys: What It Means to Become a Man (tekijä: Rachel Giese)2018
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (tekijä: Tanya Talaga)2017
Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone) (tekijä: Kamal Al-Solaylee)2016
Stephen Harper (tekijä: John Ibbitson)2015
Enlightenment 2.0 (tekijä: Joseph Heath)2014
The Longer I'm Prime Minister (tekijä: Paul Wells)2013
Walls: Travels Along the Barricades (tekijä: Marcello Di Cintio)2012
John A: The Man Who Made Us (tekijä: Richard J. Gwyn)2011
The Ghosts of Europe: Central Europe's Past and Uncertain Future (tekijä: Anna Porter)2010
Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000 (tekijä: John English)2009
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century (tekijä: James Orbinski)2008
Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar (tekijä: Janice Gross Stein)2007
Young Trudeau: 1919-1944: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada (tekijä: Max Nemni)2006
The Drug Trial: Nancy Olivieri and the Science Scandal that Rocked the Hospital for Sick Children (tekijä: Miriam Shuchman)2005
Dark Age Ahead (tekijä: Jane Jacobs)2004
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (tekijä: Roméo Dallaire)2003
Fights of Our Lives: Elections, Leadership and the Making of Canada (tekijä: John Duffy)2002
In the Name of the Father: An Essay on Quebec Nationalism (tekijä: Daniel Poliquin)2001
Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History (tekijä: Erna Paris)2000

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