Perrin puts the criminal justice system on trial
Our criminal justice system is facing an existential crisis. The following is an excerpt from Benjamin Perrin’s book, Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial, one of five finalists for this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
Inequality and its pernicious effects on culture and democracy
The following is an excerpt from The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, by Astra Taylor, and published by House of Anansi Press. The book is one of five finalists for this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
Savoie gets to the bottom of the story in Canada: Beyond Grudges, Grievances, and Disunity
The following is an excerpt from Canada: Beyond Grudges, Grievances, and Disunity, by Donald Savoie, one of five books shortlisted for this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
What makes Canada the country that it is, what should we work to preserve, and what should we try to change?
Rob Goodman and Daniel J. Savoie tackle the same questions but in completely different ways. Thoughtful and compellingly argued, both books have been deservedly short listed for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
An enthralling exploration of the Petrocene Age
In Fire Weather, John Vaillant combines history, science, and Promethean fable to place the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfires as a harbinger of a new fire century.
Vaillant’s Fire Weather looks at devastating synergy between our dependence on fossil fuels and its impact on the climate
Below is an excerpt from Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, by John Vaillant, published by Knopf Canada, one of the five finalists for this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
Privacy law needs an update
The following is an excerpt from The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy, by Ignacio Cofone, published by Cambridge University Press, one of the five finalists for this year’s $60,000 Donner Prize for the best public policy book written by a Canadian. The winner will be announced in Toronto on May 8.
War raging on Earth threatens co-operation among the stars
The following is an excerpt from Who Owns Outer Space? International Law, Astrophysics, and the Sustainable Development of Space, one of five finalists for this year’s $60,000 Donner Prize.
Most wrongful convictions lurk below the surface, unrecognized and unremedied
The following is an excerpt from Kent Roach’s Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice, published by Simon & Schuster, and one of this year’s five finalists for the Donner Prize for the best book public policy written by a Canadian. The prize will be awarded in Toronto on May 8.
Exploring the legacy of COVID pandemic panic
The following is an excerpt from Pandemic Panic: How Canadian Government Responses to COVID-19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever, one of the five books shortlisted for this year’s $60,000 Donner Prize.
