awards & nominations

2016  Honorary Degree in English:

          Mount Royal University

2016  RBC Charles Taylor Prize longlist:

          Road Trip Rwanda

2014  IMPAC Dublin Award longlist:

          419

2014  Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award longlist:

          419

          Beyond Belfast  

2010  AWG Award for Creative Nonfiction:

          Beyond Belfast 

2009  IMPAC Dublin Award longlist:

          Spanish Fly

2008  Leacock Medal for Humour shortlist:

          Spanish Fly 

2005  Pierre Berton Award 

          Canada's National History Society

2005  Leacock Medal for Humour:

          Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw

2004  Northern Lights Award for Travel

          Writing: "Polar Bear Haven: An Arctic  

          Journey" 

2002  Leacock Medal for Humour:

          Happiness

2002  CAA Award for Fiction:

          Happiness

2002  Commonwealth Prize: Canada &

          Caribbean shortlist:

          Happiness

2002  Libris Booksellers Award for

          Non-Fiction Book of the Year:

          How to Be a Canadian

2002  Leacock Medal for Humour shortlist:

          How to Be a Canadian 

2001  CAA Award for History:

          Canadian History for Dummies