On Wednesday evening in Ottawa, the Writers’ Trust annual Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing will be awarded at the Politics and the Pen gala in Ottawa. We asked each of the shortlisted authors the question: What do you think is Canada’s biggest weakness in terms of the dissemination of information, and how do we deal with it? The responses from the nominees (excluding Jane Philpott, for Health for All : A Doctor’s Prescription for a Healthier Canada) are as follows.

Tanya Talaga ( The Knowing )

Society as a whole has a problem with where “news” and “journalism” comes from. Anyone can pick up their phone, post something they see to their socials or YouTube, with no context or explanation of what is going on from a trusted source. That post can become viral and

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