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]
| 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 |