The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire and Value(s): Building A Better World for All
2021 Winner.
By Stephen R. Bown & Mark Carney. Published by Doubleday Canada.
VIVA MˑAˑC: AIDS, Fashion, and the Philanthropic Practices of MˑAˑC Cosmetics
2020 Winner.
By Andrea Benoit. Published by University of Toronto Press.
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).
Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Blackberry
2016 Winner.
By Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why it Matters
2015 Winner.
By Alfred Hermida. Published by Doubleday Canada.
The Third Rail: Confronting Our Pension Failures
2014 Winner.
By Jim Leech and Jacquie McNish. Published by Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart.
The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite
2009 Winner.By Gordon Pitts, published by Key Porter Books.
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
2013 Winner. By Chrystia Freeland, published by Doubleday Canada.
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.
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.
The Upside of Down
2007 Winner. By Thomas Homer-Dixon, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada / Random House of Canada Limited.
Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands
2011 Winner. By Ezra Levant, published by McClelland & Stewart.
Profiting the Crown: Canada’s Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990
2006 Winner By Matthew J. Bellamy, published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
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.
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