The cover of “Seized By Uncertainty: The Markets, Media and Special Interests that Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19” is shown in this handout photo. Its authors, Kevin Quigley, Kaitlynne Lowe, Sarah Moore and Brianna Wolfe were awarded the $60,000 Donner Prize for public policy writing, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Toronto. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-McGill-Queen’s University Press *MANDATORY CREDIT*
The cover of “Seized By Uncertainty: The Markets, Media and Special Interests that Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19” is shown in this handout photo. Its authors, Kevin Quigley, Kaitlynne Lowe, Sarah Moore and Brianna Wolfe were awarded the $60,000 Donner Prize for public policy writing, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Toronto. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-McGill-Queen’s University Press *MANDATORY CREDIT*
TORONTO - A book about Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has won the Donner Prize for public policy writing.
“Seized By Uncertainty: The Markets, Media and Special Interests that Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19” was awarded the $60,000 literary prize at a gala dinner in º£½ÇÉçÇø¹ÙÍøon Thursday evening.
Its authors, Kevin Quigley, Kaitlynne Lowe, Sarah Moore and Brianna Wolfe, were praised for delivering “a clear message that institutional inertia may prevent us from learning the right lessons from the pandemic.”
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The other nominated titles each receive $7,500.Â
They include “Fiscal Choices: Canada After the Pandemic” by Michael M. Atkinson and Haizhen Mou, and “And Sometimes They Kill You: Confronting the Epidemic of Intimate Partner Violence” by Pamela Cross.
Rounding out the finalists were “Constraining the Court: Judicial Power and Policy Implementation in the Charter Era” by James B. Kelly, and “Hard Lessons in Corporate Governance” by Bryce C. Tingle.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 15, 2025.
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