‘I wrote this memoir from the heart’: former Supreme Court chief justice wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for memoir, Truth Be Told, a ‘unique and tantalizing glimpse’ into top court

'I wrote this memoir from the heart, it’s my story through good times and more challenging times,' says former Supreme Court chief justice Beverley McLachlin. 'It’s also a story about my country, Canada, a country where a young girl of no particular note could rise to become the chief justice of Canada.'

Canada’s longest-serving chief justice, Beverley McLachlin, pictured, is the recipient of this year's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Prize for Political Writing for a memoir that allowed her to 'embark on a voyage of recollection, rediscovery, and coming home.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

September 23, 2020

Beverley McLachlin, Canada’s former Supreme Court chief justice, who was the first woman to hold the position and the longest serving chief justice in Canadian history, won this year’s coveted Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, for her memoir Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Lif...

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