Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Shortlist 2016
March 2, 2016 – Toronto – The Writers’ Trust of Canada has named the five finalists for the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The winner will be announced in Ottawa on April 20, 2016, at the Politics and the Pen Gala. Finalist books include a biography of an ambitious Liberal reformer; a portrait of one of the country’s most influential public servants; a profile of Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister; a treatise on Big Oil and the fracking industry; and an argument for climate change as a human rights issue in Canada’s North. The finalists, selected by a jury composed of Canadian military historian Tim Cook, author and Globe and Mail journalist Robyn Doolittle, and McGill University professor and political commentator Antonia Maioni, are:
