Writers’ Trust of Canada has announced that Vancouver’s Vince Beiser’s Power Metal: The Race for Resources That Will Shape the Future is the 2025 winner of the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.

The annual award, now in its fifth year, comes with a $70,000 prize and recognizes comprehensive nonfiction books that focus on policy discussions on social, political, economic, and cultural topics that are important to Canadians.

A journalist and author, Beiser’s award-winning book looks at Canada’s critical minerals and green energy.

Power Metal: The Race for Resources That Will Shape the Future by Vince Beiser. Photo by Riverhead Books / Riverhead Books

Beiser’s first book, The World in a Grain, was a finalist for a PEN America Award. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The

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