Shaughnessy Cohen
Shaughnessy Cohen was a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Windsor--St. Clair for the Liberal Party of Canada from 1993 to 1998.
On December 9, 1998, she collapsed in the House of Commons just seconds after standing to address the House. She had suffered a brain hemorrhage, and was pronounced dead soon afterward.
In the byelection that followed in early 1999, Liberal candidate Rick Limoges narrowly defeated Joe Comartin of the New Democratic Party of Canada. However, in the federal election the following year, Comartin won the seat.
In 2000, the Writers' Trust of Canada instituted a literary award, the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing in her memory.
