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<div class="gmail-l-row"> <section id="gmail-title-content-area" class="gmail-title-content--story gmail-l-col-1 gmail-l-col-sm-8 gmail-l-col-md-8 gmail-l-col-lg-8 gmail-l-offset-lg-2"> <div class="gmail-l-row"> <div class="gmail-pb-container"> <div class="gmail-u-wrapper gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-label-headline" id="gmail-f01hkqLpeRbLQq"> <header class="gmail-o-primary-header"> <h1 id="gmail-skip-link-target" tabindex="-1" class="gmail-c-primary-title gmail-c-primary-title--news">Donner Prize finalists aim to shape Canadian public policy discussions</h1> </header> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <div class="gmail-l-row"> <section id="gmail-main-content-area" class="gmail-main-content--story gmail-l-col-1 gmail-l-col-sm-8 gmail-l-col-md-8 gmail-l-col-lg-8 gmail-l-offset-lg-2"> <div class="gmail-l-row"> <div class="gmail-pb-container"> <article class="gmail-c-article gmail-c-article--none"> <div class="gmail-u-wrapper gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-photo" id="gmail-fiRjw91peRbLQq"> </div> <div class="gmail-u-wrapper gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-meta" id="gmail-fpRO1a1peRbLQq"> <div class="gmail-c-article-meta"> <div class="gmail-c-article-meta__bylines"> <span class="gmail-c-byline">becky toyne</span></div> <div class="gmail-c-article-meta__creditlines"> <span class="gmail-c-creditline"> Special to The Globe and Mail </span> </div> <div class="gmail-c-article-meta__timestamps"> <time class="gmail-c-timestamp gmail-js-story-moment" datetime="May 9, 2018">Published 20 hours ago</time> <time class="gmail-c-timestamp gmail-u-visually-hidden" datetime="2018-05-09T18:31:57.327Z">Updated May 9, 2018</time> </div> </div> </div> <div class="gmail-u-wrapper gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-content" id="gmail-f33OPw1peRbLQq"> <div class="gmail-c-article-body gmail-js-c-article-body gmail-u-clearfix"> <p class="gmail-c-article-body__text">When
the winner of the 20th anniversary Donner Prize is announced in Toronto
on May 15, the result won’t necessarily send readers scrambling to the
shelves for the best Canadian book on public policy. “Fifty-thousand
dollars [for the winner] certainly beats the hell out of the royalties,”
says Philip Cercone, executive director of McGill-Queen’s University
Press, the publisher that boasts the most nominations in the prize’s
history, including two on this year’s shortlist. </p> <p class="gmail-c-article-body__text">For
the shortlisted researchers and academics, much more is at stake than
prize money or modest bumps in sales: “It’s the ultimate recognition
among their peers that they have done a work that is both substantial
and will have an impact on society,” Cercone says. </p> <p class="gmail-c-article-body__text">This
year’s five-person jury was generally “looking for something written in
a way that is accessible,” chair David Dodge said in an interview. “As a
former deputy minister and governor of the Bank [of Canada] who used
this kind of stuff in my life, I find it just extraordinarily valuable.
And the more and better quality folks we can induce to write this kind
of book, the better off public servants, minsters and other people
responsible for public policy are going to be.” </p> <div class="gmail-u-wrapper gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-commercial-dfp-ads" id="gmail-"> <div class="gmail-"> </div> </div> <p class="gmail-c-article-body__text">The
following five books from the past year represent those the jury thinks
can play an important role in future public policy discussions in
Canada.<br></p> <figure class="gmail-c-inline-img gmail-c-inline-img--constrain"> <div class="gmail-c-inline-img__wrapper" style="padding-bottom:150.75%"> <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/9qlxrfY527aAU-YAYaFX8PnZypQ=/620x0/filters:quality(80)/arc-anglerfish-tgam-prod-tgam.s3.amazonaws.com/public/YY7JW2VA5ZFTPME6FBM2CX5TGU.jpg}" class="gmail-js-modal-dialog-trigger" id="gmail-c-image-0"> <span class="gmail-u-visually-hidden">Open this photo in gallery</span> <img class="gmail-js-lazyimage--autosizes gmail-js-lazyimage--loaded" src="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/9qlxrfY527aAU-YAYaFX8PnZypQ=/620x0/filters:quality(80)/arc-anglerfish-tgam-prod-tgam.s3.amazonaws.com/public/YY7JW2VA5ZFTPME6FBM2CX5TGU.jpg" alt=""> </a> </div> <figcaption class="gmail-c-article-media__info gmail-c-article-media__info--article"> <div class="gmail-c-article-media__description"> <p class="gmail-c-article-media__caption">handout</p> </div> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="gmail-c-article-body__text">In <i>Charte canadienne et droits linguistiques: Pour en finir avec les myths</i>,
the sole French-language book on the shortlist – the award unusually
considers works in Canada’s two official languages on a single list –
Frédéric Bérard aims to reconsider the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’
effect on language rights. Analyzing laws, regulations and Supreme Court
decisions, Bérard argues that the Charter has not in fact resulted in
systematic bias against French language rights in Quebec. If it wins,
this would be only the second French-language book to do so</p></div></div></article></div></div></section></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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