Jim Balsillie's megabuck prize for Public Policy books announced a shortlist yesterday:
- John Lorinc, Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
- Jean Marmoreo and Johanna Schneller, The Last Doctor: Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying
- 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
Nice to see a couple of small presses (Coach House and Delve, the latter a new imprint for social justice titles from Irwin Law of Toronto) getting their contributions in this area noted. And hey, I've actually read one of these; Vaclav Smil, the Manitoba sage who is one of Bill Gates's favourite authors but who explains in this book why fossil fuels will have a long tail during the energy transition. Well, some of it, anyway. Nice mix of academics and journalists in the list. Sorry, no historians.
