Authors dig deep into government’s response to COVID-19
The following is an excerpt from Seized by Uncertainty: The Markets, Media, and Special Interests That Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19, which is one of five finalists for the 2024 Donner Prize for the best public policy book of the year.
Kelly looks at how governments react to judicial invalidation in Constraining the Court
The following is an excerpt from Constraining the Court: Judicial Power in Policy Implementation in the Charter Era, one of five books shortlisted for the 2025 Donner Prize, the best public policy book of the year.
‘This is a book about gender-based violence, with a focus on intimate partner abuse,’ says Donner-nominated author of And Sometimes They Kill You
The following is an excerpt from And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence, by Pamela Cross, nominated for this year’s Donner Prize, one the best public policy books of the year.
Poilievre is a ‘classic political ripper,’ says author of new bestselling biography
Mark Bourrie says Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre is as much about the failings of modern political parties and the Canadian media as it is about Pierre Poilievre.
Fiscal Choices takes a sober look at economic dimensions of pandemic
The following is an excerpt from Michael M. Atkinson and Haizen Mou’s, Fiscal Choices: Canada After the Pandemic, one of the five finalists for this year’s Donner Prize, the best public policy book of the year.
Reconciliation starts local, says author of guide book for non-Indigenous allies
Rose LeMay says it’s ‘up to non-Indigenous people to change these systems so that Indigenous Peoples are not treated worse than others.’
Ripper offers a detailed, accessible, engrossing look at the making of Pierre Poilievre
Mark Bourrie sets out to tell Pierre Poilievre’s story from the beginning, and shows not only his origins and how they shaped the man currently seeking the Prime Minister’s Office, but also how little that person has changed in 30 years.
Trump wants Canada economically weak and politically divided, says author of ‘The Adaptable Country’
Alasdair Roberts, author of The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, offers advice on how Canada can get through the Trump years. But it’s going to be one, tough fight, and the country can’t be divided.
Are we fascist yet?
Ken McGoogan’s Shadows of Tyranny is a calm work born of panic, written before Trump was re-elected. If you’ve ever wondered how you would have behaved in the late 1930s when the world pitched toward authoritarianism, this book is an almanac of character sketches of people who saw it coming and tried to stop it, or took up arms to try to end it.
New biography warns against underestimating Chrystia Freeland
Chrystia is an origin story. Author Catherine Tsalikis presents Freeland’s past to assist readers with understanding her present and speculating on her future.
