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Last night in Ottawa, the Writers’ Trust Presented John Ibbitson with the 16th annual $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his biography of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The prize honours the finest book of politically-relevant non-fiction published in the previous year.

Announced at the annual black tie Politics and the Pen fundraising gala at Ottawa’s Fairmont Château Laurier, Ibbitson's book was selected by jurors Tim Cook, a military historian, Robyn Doolittle, an author and Globe and Mail journalist, and Antonia Maioni, a McGill University professor and political commentator.