Donner Prize
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The Donner Prize is an award given annually by the Donner Canadian Foundation for books considered excellent in regard to the writing of Canadian public policy. The prize was established in 1998. The grand prize is $35,000; short-listed finalists receive $5,000 each. To be eligible, a book must be on a single theme relevant to Canadian policy and be authored by one or more Canadian citizens. Entries are submitted by publishers, and selected by a five-person jury whose members are drawn from the ranks of Canadian professors, university administrators, businessmen, and politicians. The committee announces a short list in April of each year. The winners and runners-up are announced at an awards banquet in May.
Past winners are:
- 2005: Mark Jaccard, "Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy"
- 2004: David Laidler & William Robson, Two Percent Target: Canadian Monetary Policy Since 1991
- 2003: Michael Adams, Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada, and the Myth of Converging Values.
- 2002: John F. Helliwell, Globalization and Well-Being.
- 2001: Marie McAndrew, Immigration et Diversitè á L'École.
- 2000: Tom Flanagan, First Nation? Second Thoughts.
- 1999: David Gratzer, Code Blue: Reviving Canada's Health Care System.
- 1998: Thomas Courchene with Colin Termer, From Heartland to North American Region-State: The Social, Fiscal, and Federal Evolution of Ontario.
