MELTDOWN: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
2019 Winner.
By Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik. Published by Allen Lane Canada (Penguin Random House Canada).
THE PATCH: The People, Pipelines and Politics of the Oil Sands
2018 Winner.
By Chris Turner. Published by Simon & Schuster.
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
2017 Winner.
By Daniel J. Levitin. Published by Allen Lane Canada (Penguin Random House Canada).
Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why it Matters
2015 Winner.
By Alfred Hermida. Published by Doubleday Canada.
Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Blackberry
2016 Winner.
By Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
The Third Rail: Confronting Our Pension Failures
2014 Winner.
By Jim Leech and Jacquie McNish. Published by Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart.
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
2013 Winner. By Chrystia Freeland, published by Doubleday Canada.
Consumer Republic: Using Brands to Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave, and Maybe Even Save the World
2012 Winner. By Bruce Philp, published by McClelland & Stewart.
Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands
2011 Winner. By Ezra Levant, published by McClelland & Stewart.
Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization
2010 Winner. By Jeff Rubin, published by Random House Canada.
The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite
2009 Winner.By Gordon Pitts, published by Key Porter Books.
Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and doesn't seem to care)
2008 Winner. By William Marsden, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada.
The Upside of Down
2007 Winner. By Thomas Homer-Dixon, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada / Random House of Canada Limited.
Profiting the Crown: Canada’s Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990
2006 Winner By Matthew J. Bellamy, published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black
2005 Winner. By Jacquie McNish and Sinclair Stewart, published Penguin Group (Canada).
The Human Factor: Revolutioinizing the Way People Live With Technology
2004 Winner. By Kim Vicente, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada.
The Bubble and The Bear: How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dream
2003 Winner. By Douglas Hunter, published by Doubleday Canada.
Free Rider: How a Bay St. Whiz Kid Stole and Spent $20 Million
2002 Winner. By John Lawrence Reynolds, published by McArthur & Company.
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
2001 Winner. By Naomi Klein, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada.
Unnatural Harvest — How Genetic Engineering is Altering Our Food
2000 Winner By Ingeborg Boyens, published by Doubleday Canada.
Fever: The Dark Mystery of the Bre-X Gold Rush
1999 Winner. By Jennifer Wells, published by Penguin Books of Canada Ltd.
The Reichmanns — Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia & York
1998 Winner. By Anthony Bianco, published by Random House Canada.
Who Killed Confederation Life? The Inside Story
1997 Winner. By Rod McQueen, published by McClelland & Stewart.
Driving Force: The McLaughlin Family and the Age of the Car
1996 Winner. By Heather Robertson, published by McClelland & Stewart.
The Edible Man: Dave Nichol, President’s Choice & the Making of Popular Taste
1995 Winner. By Anne Kingston, published by Macfarland Walter & Ross.
Quick to the Frontier: Canada’s Royal Bank
1994 Winner. By Duncan McDowall, published by McClelland & Stewart.
Self Serve: How Petro-Canada Pumped Canadians Dry
1993 Winner. By Peter Foster, published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross.
Faith & Fear — The Free Trade Story
1992 Winner. By G. Bruce Doern and Brian W. Tomlin, published by Stoddart Published Co. Limited.
Steinberg: The Breakup of a Family Empire
1991 Winner. By Ann Gibbon and Peter Hadekel, published by Macmillan of Canada
Freewheeling
1990 Winner. By Ian Brown, published by Harper & Collins
Shutting Down the National Dream
1989 Winner. By Greig Stewart, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited
Northern Enterprise
1988 Winner. By Michael Bliss published by McClelland & Stewart
Harvest From The Rock
1987 Winner. By Phillip Smith, published by Macmillan of Canada
A Matter of Trust
1986 Winner. By Ann Shortell and Patricia Best, published by Viking Books
