Brian Bow, Dalhousie political scientist, won the 2010 Donner Prize (for books on Canadian public policy), for The Politics of Linkage: Power, Interdependence and Ideas in Canada-US Relations.
CBC has the details here.
Shortlisted: Who Owns the Arctic?: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North by Michael Byers; A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future by Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd & Lori Culbert; and Branding Canada: Projecting Canada's Soft Power through Public Diplomacy by Evan H. Potter.