The shortlist for the 2021 $50,000 Donner Prize has been announced by the Donner Canadian Foundation. The annual prize recognizes the best public policy book by a Canadian.
“I’m especially pleased with this year’s shortlisted books, which cover timely and critical topics – innovation, equitable economic growth, Indigenous economy, national security, and the crisis in eldercare,” jury chair David Dodge said in a release.
The winner will be announced at a gala in Toronto on May 31.
This year’s shortlisted books are:
- Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World by Dan Breznitz (Oxford University Press)
- Value(s): Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney (Signal/M&S)
- Stand On Guard: Reassessing Threats to Canada’s National Security by Stephanie Carvin (University of Toronto Press)
- Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table, by Carol Anne Hilton MBA (New Society Publishers)
- Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada’s Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic by André Picard (Random House of Canada)