Globe and Mail reporter Josh O’Kane, author of Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy, is among the five finalists for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
Books about government intervention in Inuit and Indigenous communities and climate change have also been nominated for the prize.
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The winner of the $25,000 award, administered by the Writers’ Trust of Canada, will be announced May 10 at the Politics and the Pen gala in Ottawa.
Norma Dunning was nominated for Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother, while Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) made the short list for Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation.
Dale Eisler is in contention for From Left to Right: Saskatchewan’s Political and Economic Transformation. Also nominated is Chris Turner’s How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World.
The five finalists were chosen by jurors Terri E. Givens, Nik Nanos and Jacques Poitras.