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This just in: Donner Prize, Dafoe Prize name books shortlisted for honours

The nominees for 2020’s prestigious Donner and Dafoe book prizes are now out, with 10 books earning the nod and offering Canadians another enlightening way to pass their time in the COVID-19 lockdown. The five books nominated for the Donner Prize for best public policy book include Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson‘s Empty Planet: The […]

‘Bold decisions’ are needed if the CBC is to survive

ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—For those who can, reading a book is a good way to pass the time during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s excellent escapism from the anxieties of life as we know it fall apart. David Taras and Christopher Waddell recently authored The End of the CBC?, published by the University of Toronto Press. They […]

‘I wrote The Imperilled Ocean to show that the ocean’s story is also our own’

Laura Trethewey is an ocean journalist on a noble mission: she wants to know how people can save the oceans. So she wrote her first book about it, The Imperilled Ocean: Human Stories From a Changing Sea, an illuminating, beautifully written, and important read, especially for Canada’s federal legislators. In 2015, the former writer and […]

‘Braver Canada’: a new book paths a fresh course for Canada around the globe

A former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. and an international relations professor argue in a book that Canada needs a new approach as international institutions have been permanently altered. Braver Canada: Shaping Our Destiny in a Precarious World is the latest project by former diplomat Derek Burney and Carleton University professor Fen Osler Hampson. “The […]

Making his mark: Bourrie wins Taylor Prize

Former Parliament Hill reporter Mark Bourrie took home this year’s RBC Taylor Prize and a hefty $30,000 cheque for his latest book, Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. The book about one of the founding members of the Hudson’s Bay Company profiles Pierre-Esprit Radisson, who came to New France as a 15-year-old, where he […]

Former Harper adviser Benjamin Perrin pens book on opioid crisis

University of British Columbia law professor Benjamin Perrin has authored a new book on the opioid crisis, which criticizes the drug policies of his past boss, former prime minister Stephen Harper. Prof. Perrin served as Mr. Harper’s legal adviser, working out of the Prime Minister’s Office, from 2012 to 2013, but later broke with Mr.Harper, […]