Balsillie Prize for Public Policy

The Balsillie Prize for Public Policy is an annual Canadian literary award, presented to honour the year's best non-fiction work on public policy issues.^[1] Created in 2021, the award is presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada, and sponsored by technology investor Jim Balsillie.^[2]

Nominees and recipients

Year	Author	Title	Ref
2021	Dan Breznitz	Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World	[3]
	Gregor Craigie	On Borrowed Time: North America's Next Big Quake
	André Picard	Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic
	Jody Wilson-Raybould	Indian in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power
2022	John Lorinc	Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias	[4]
	Jean Marmoreo, Johanna Schneller	The Last Doctor: Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying	[5]
	Kent Roach	Canadian Policing: Why and How It Must Change
	Vaclav Smil	How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
	Kim Stanton	Reconciling Truths: Reimagining Public Inquiries in Canada
2023	David R. Samson	Our Tribal Future: How to Channel Our Foundational Human Instincts into a Force for Good	[6]
	Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb	Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence	[7]
	Michelle Good	Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada
	Ryan Manucha	Booze, Cigarettes, and Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada's Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade
	Max Wyman	The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts Are Central to a Functioning Democracy
2024	Wendy H. Wong	We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age	[8]
	Gregor Craigie	Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis	[9]
	Christopher Pollon	Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places
	M. G. Vassanji	Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging

See also

• Donner Prize