The Writers' Trust of Canada unveiled the five finalists for the C$40,000 (about US$28,775) Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, which is Sponsored by CN and "recognizes literary nonfiction about a political subject that is relevant to Canadian readers." Each finalist receives C$5,000 (about US$3,595). The winner will be named April 29 in Ottawa at the Politics and the Pen gala. This year's shortlisted titles are:
On Oil by Don Gillmor
Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community by Maggie Helwig
On the Ground: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent by Brian Stewart
On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy by Ira Wells
Women Who Woke up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women's Rights in Canada by Karin Wells