Politics and the Pen packs the house at the Château Laurier
The crowd at the Politics & the Pen at the Château Laurier on Sept. 24 for this year’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize.The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Münster
It was a sold-out crowd at Politics & the Pen schmooze-fest fundraiser for the Writers’ Trust of Canada at Ottawa’s Château Laurier Hotel on Sept. 24.
The annual fundraiser, which raised $530,000 last year for Canadian writers, attracted a crowd of about 500 people as political Ottawa came out in droves and in their best duds. The Château was positively buzzing with conversations as people jammed into the space.
Raymond B. Blake won the $40,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book, Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity, published by UBC Press. The prize was increased from $25,000 to $40,000 this year.
The other nominees for this year’s prize were: Stephen Maher, for The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau (Simon & Schuster Canada); Jane Philpott, for Health for All: A Doctor’s Prescription for a Healthier Canada (Signal); Tanya Talaga, for The Knowing (HarperCollins Publishers); and Alasdair Roberts, for The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century (McGill-Queen’s University Press).
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The Hill Times photographs by Cynthia Münster
Brigitte Pellerin, left, and Stephen Maher, whose book, The Prince, was nominated.Conservative MP Andrew Lawton, left, and Bob Plamondon.Alex Spence, left, and Elizabeth Gray-Smith.Julie Seide, Zubin Sanyal, and Alicia Adams.Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin, left, and Yvonne Jones.Bernard Roth, left, and Justice Minister Sean Fraser.Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu, left, and Marci Surkes.Tristin Hopper, left, and Richard Wells.Raymond Blake, left, who won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for the year’s best book, and Wanda Blake.Lauren Volpi, left, and Marcella Munro.The Hill Times’ Abbas Rana, left, Annabelle Cloutier, and Heather Bradley.Navdeep Bains, left, Marlene Floyd, and Jim Armour.Denise Chong, left, and The Hill Times‘ Kate Malloy.Chad Rogers, left, and Janice Charette.Lisa Raitt, left, Theo Argitis, and Marci SurkesMitzie Hunter, left, and Liberal MP Jacques Ramsay.Kory Teneycke, left, and Fraser.Brett Popplewell, left, Sarah Everts, and Ron Corbett.Katie Tallo, left, Denise Chong, and Wayne Ng.Jake Scrivens and his mom, Heather Bradley.Prize nominee Alasdair Roberts, left, and Jamie Liew.Rob Russo, left, and Don Newman.Megan Leslie, left, Stuart Coxe.
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