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Shaughnessy Cohen Prize For Political Writing
The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best nonfiction book on Canadian political and social issues. It has been presented annually in Ottawa at the Writers’ Trust Politics and the Pen gala since 2000,Kate Jaimet, "Spirit of Shaughnessy Cohen lives on at literary dinner on Hill". ''Ottawa Citizen'', May 4, 2000. superseding the organization's defunct Gordon Montador Award. The award had a dollar value in 2015 of CAD25,000. The prize was established in honour of Shaughnessy Cohen (February 11, 1948 - December 9, 1998), an outspoken and popular Liberal Member of Parliament from Windsor, Ontario who died after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in the House of Commons of Canada The House of Commons of Canada () is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Monarchy of Canada#Parliament (King-in-Parliament), Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the Bicamera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Freeman
Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capital city of the Seychelles * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of victory Victoria may also refer to: Animals and plants * ''Victoria'' (moth), a moth genus in the family Geometridae * ''Victoria'' (plant), a waterlily genus in the family Nymphaeaceae * Victoria plum, a plum cultivar * Victoria (goose), the first goose to receive a prosthetic 3D printed beak * Victoria (grape), another name for the German/Italian wine grape Trollinger Arts and entertainment Films * ''Victoria'', a Russian 1917 silent film directed by Olga Preobrazhenskaya, based on the Knut Hamsun novel * ''Victoria'' (1935 film), a German film * ''Victoria'' (1972 film), a Mexican film based on Henry James' 1880 novel ''Washington Square'' * ''Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Delacourt
Susan Delacourt is a Canadian political journalist. She spent her childhood and adolescence in Milton, Ontario. She first developed her skills as a journalist while at the University of Western Ontario, where she was an editor of the UWO Gazette, the student newspaper. In 2011, Delacourt was selected by her peers as the recipient of the Charles Lynch Award, for lifetime achievement in political writing. Mark BourrieWell-connected, visible, a lot of clout with Liberal-leftie network The Hill Times, March 5, 2012. Retrieved via electronic subscription, July 16, 2012. In 2012, Delacourt was named by Canadian political newspaper '' Hill Times'' as one of "The Top 100 Most Influential People in Government and Politics". In 2007, she was among the first inductees into Milton's Walk of Fame for the town's 150th anniversary to honor her achievements. Delacourt is a senior writer at the ''Toronto Star''. Previously, she was the senior political writer at the ''National Post'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Sher
Julian Sher is a Canadian investigative journalist, filmmaker, author and newsroom trainer based in Montreal, Quebec. He was an investigative producer for ten years then a senior producer for five years with the CBC's '' The Fifth Estate''. He has written extensively about outlaw motorcycle gangs, child abuse and the justice system. Career Sher began work at CBC in Montreal as an on-air radio journalist and show producer from 1983 to 1986. From 1986 to 1989, he was an investigative reporter for CBC Television in Montreal. He became a producer for the CBC network program '' The Fifth Estate'' from 1989 to 2001, where he covered wrongful convictions, police corruption, war criminals and biker gangs. Sher played a leading role alongside Daniel Burke and Hana Gartner in exposing Inspector Claude Savoie of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as corrupt. The scandal ended with Savoie committing suicide in his office at the RCMP's national headquarters on 21 December 1992. Sher s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda McQuaig
Linda Joy McQuaig (born September 1951) is a Canadian journalist, columnist, author and social critic. She worked as a reporter investigating the Patti Starr affair. She wrote books and newspaper columns focusing on corporate influence in economic and social policy. Jonathan Kay of the ''National Post'' newspaper described her as "Canada's Michael Moore". In 2016, her book ''Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and other Canadian Myths'' was named by the ''Literary Review of Canada'' as one of the 25 most influential Canadian books of the prior 25 years. Early years and personal life McQuaig was born to a middle-class Toronto family. Her father Jack wrote a half-dozen books on leadership and personal development. Her mother Audrey trained as a psychologist, but gave up her career to raise McQuaig, her sister and brothers. From 1963 to 1970 McQuaig attended Branksome Hall, a Toronto Private school, private girls school where she became president of the debating society, and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janice Gross Stein
Janice Gross Stein (born 1943) is a Canadian political scientist and international relations expert. Stein is a specialist in Middle East area studies, negotiation theory, foreign policy decision-making, and international conflict management. She was the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto, where she is a professor. Life and career Stein holds degrees from McGill University (undergraduate and doctoral), and Yale University (master's). She has been a professor at the University of Toronto since 1982, and was named a University Professor in 1996. Stein is a specialist in Middle East area studies; negotiation theory; foreign policy decision-making; and international conflict management, on which she has lectured at the Centre for National Security Studies in Ottawa and at the NATO Defense College in Rome. Stein is the founder and former director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingeborg Boyens
Ingeborg is a Germanic feminine given name, mostly used in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, derived from Old Norse ''Ingiborg, Ingibjǫrg'', combining the theonym ''Ing'' with the element ''borg'' "stronghold, protection". Ingebjørg is the Norwegian most used variant of the name, and Ingibjörg is the Icelandic variant. People Pre-modern era :''Ordered chronologically'' * Ingeborg, 10th century mother of Ragnvald Ulfsson * Ingeborg Tryggvasdotter (10th–11th century), daughter of Tryggve Olafsson (died 963), granddaughter of Harald Fairhair and sister of Olaf I of Norway * Ingeborg of Kiev (), mother of Valdemar I of Denmark * Ingibjörg Hakonsdóttir Of Orkney (fl. 12th century) wife of Óláfr Guðrøðarson king of Isle of Man * Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France (1174–1237), wife of Philip II of France and daughter of Valdemar I of Denmark * Ingeborg Eriksdotter of Sweden (c. 1212 – c. 1254), daughter of King Erik Knutsson of Sweden, wife of Birger Jarl and moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Poliquin
Daniel Poliquin (born December 18, 1953) is a Canadian novelist and translator. He has translated works of various Canadian writers into French, including David Homel, Douglas Glover, and Mordecai Richler. Poliquin and his hometown of Ottawa are the subjects of 1999 documentary film ''L'écureuil noir'' (English: ''The Black Squirrel''), directed by Fadel Saleh for the National Film Board of Canada. He was awarded the Order of Canada with the grade of member and was recently promoted to the grade of officer in 2015. Poloquin is also a Chevalier in the Ordre de la Pleiade and a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee Medal. He won the Governor General's Award for English to French translation in 2014 for his translation of Thomas King's '' The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America'', and in 2017 for his translation of Alexandre Trudeau's ''Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Winsor
Hugh Fraser Winsor, (born 18 April 1938 at Saint John, New Brunswick) is a Canadian journalist, noted for his work with ''The Globe and Mail'' and CBC Television's '' The Journal''. He received the Charles Lynch Award for journalism in 1998 and has been a Member of the Order of Canada since 2005. Winsor graduated from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the northeastern end of Lake Ontario. It is at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River, the south end of the Rideau Canal. Kingston is near the Thousand Islands, ...; he was a student there in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but did not formally graduate until 1973, due to late completion of one missing course. He later received an honorary doctorate from Queen's. His work with ''The Globe and Mail'' began as a member of that paper's Editorial Board in the mid-1960s, and he covered national politics for many years, into the early 2000s. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Wallin
Pamela Wallin (born April 10, 1953) is a Canadian politician, former television journalist, and diplomat who served as a senator. She was appointed to the senate on January 2, 2009, where she initially sat as a Conservative. Early life and career Wallin was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and is of Swedish descent. Wallin spent much of her formative years in Wadena but completed her high school in Moose Jaw. In 1973,Biography pamelawallin.com she graduated with a degree in and from the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Siggins
Marjorie May "Maggie" Siggins (born 28 May 1942) is a Canadian journalist and writer. She was a recipient of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Literary Merit for her non-fiction work ''Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm''. She was also the recipient of the 1986 Arthur Ellis Award for "Best true crime book" for her work ''A Canadian Tragedy'', about the involvement of former Saskatchewan politician Colin Thatcher in the murder of his wife JoAnn Wilson. The book was later adapted into the television miniseries '' Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher''.Diane Smith, "The Thatcher murder: not just a family feud". ''The Globe and Mail'', December 2, 1989. Siggins is also noted as the author of a biography of Louis Riel entitled ''Riel: A Life of Revolution''. ''In Her Own time: A Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women'' and ''Bitter Embrace:White Society's Assault on the Woodland Cree'' are her last two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Somerville
Margaret Anne Ganley Somerville (born 13 April 1942) is a Catholic philosopher and professor of bioethics at University of Notre Dame Australia. She was previously Samuel Gale Professor of Law at McGill University. Early life and career Somerville was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and educated at Mercedes College ( Springfield, South Australia). She received a A.u.A. (pharm.) from the University of Adelaide in 1963, a Bachelor of Law degree (Hons. I) and the University Medal from the University of Sydney in 1973, and a D.C.L. from McGill University in 1978. Legal academic career In 1978, she was appointed assistant professor in the law faculty at McGill. She was appointed an associate professor in 1979 and an associate professor in the faculty of medicine in 1980. In 1984, she became a full professor in both faculties, and in 1989, she was appointed the Samuel Gale Professor of Law. From 1986 to 1996, she was the founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
