Given the attention here recently to
Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation, a Donner Prize nominee, we should note the prize and the $50,000 cheque went this weekend to Donald Savoie for
What is Government Good At? a public-policy study by the political scientist and pride of Bouctouche, NB.
Savoie's work typically puts an emphasis on empowering civil servants -- to a degree that rather puzzles me, being more of a parliamentary-accountability guy. But he's been a prolific and influential scholar of government -- honour richly deserved.
In other recent prizes, Brian Young was awarded the Canada Prize in the Humanities for
Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec: The Taschereaus and McCords Like Savoie's book, that is a McGill-Queen's Press title.
And -- a major international win -- Craig Heron received the International Labor History Association Book of the Year prize for
Lunch-Bucket Lives, Remaking the Workers’ City. That is a Between the Lines Press publication.
