Established in honor of the outspoken and popular Member of Parliament, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing is awarded annually for an exceptional book of literary nonfiction that captures a political subject of relevance to Canadian readers.

Fire Weather takes readers on a journey through the intertwined histories of North America’s oil industry and the birth of climate science to urgently warn that increasing vulnerability to extreme wildfire means that everyone must prepare for life in a more flammable world.