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Politics and the Pen gets heated, but don’t blame Fire Weather

This year's Politics and the Pen gala raised $530,000 for the Writers' Trust of Canada, and awarded the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing to John Vaillant for his book Fire Weather: The Making of the Beast.

Journalist John Vaillant accepts the 2024 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for his book Fire Weather: The Making of the Beast at the 2024 Writers' Trust Politics and the Pen gala at the Château Laurier on May 7.The Hill Times photograph by Stuart Benson

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BY STUART BENSON

May 8, 2024

Journalist John Vaillant’s Fire Weather: The Making of the Beast won 2024’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize For Political Writing at the annual black-tie Politics and the Pen gala on May 7, but while there wasn’t a hazy orange sky hanging over this ye...

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