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Donner Prize announces its five finalists for best public policy book in 2022, winner to receive $60,000

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The five finalists: Cooperation and Social Justice; Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias; Booze, Cigarettes and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade; The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future; and Canadian Policing: Why and How It Must Change.Book covers courtesy of the Donner Prize/University of Toronto Press, Coach House Books, McGill-Queen's University Press, Allen Lane Canada, and Delve Books

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

April 17, 2023

Gregory Belton, chair of the Donner Canadian Foundation, announced the shortlist for the 2022 $60,000 Donner Prize last week, the award recognizing the best public policy book written by a Canadian. The five finalists are:

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