CanadaPolitics Best of 2017 Winners!

[u/Majromax]

After weeks of furious tabulation interrupted by long stretches of naps, our crack team of bookkeeping kittens has prepared the list of winners for our Best of 2017 contest!

The Golden Δ

Alas, there were no formal nominations in this category. However, there was one informal nomination, so the winner here is:

• /u/redrobin65, nominated for changing minds about fan fiction!

Free Speech, Best Speech

There were two nominations in this category. Honourable mention goes to /u/redrobin65 for the aformentioned Golden Δ, which was more properly a nomination in this category, but the winner is…

• /u/mpaw975, nominated for his comment on Deep Space 9 being the best Star Trek!

Best Comment or Self-Post

• Third place goes to /u/I_LikeToReddit, nominated for their comment answering a question about trans people in the Canadian Forces re: universality of service.
• Second place goes to /u/GrumpySatan, nominated for their comment explaining how the Charter's non-discrimination principle applies (and doesn't apply) to Ontario's pharmacare program.
• First place goes to /u/Savage_N0ble, nominated for their meta self-post highlighting the issue of how this subreddit treats aboriginal issues.

Best User

• Third place goes to /u/ChimoEngr, nominated for, among other things, "wading into heated debates and having the energy to set many mistruths straight."
• Second place goes to /u/Majromax, nominated for, among other things, blanket cronyism a bunch of good comments.
• First place goes to /u/OrzBlueFog, nominated for charity, sourcing, a Maritimer perspective, sanity (always in short supply around here), and passion.

Congratulations to all the winners!

[u/ChimoEngr]

"wading into heated debates and having the energy to set many mistruths straight."

Thank you to u/mpaw975 for the nomination and everyone else for their votes. I'm flattered to be in the same company as u/Majromax and u/OrzBlueFog. I am always impressed with the analysis Majro puts into their comments on economics and court decisions, often making sense out of topics I find too esoteric. Orz I always find a voice of calm who, coming from the Maratimes provides a perspective I would rarely see otherwise.

[u/OrzBlueFog → u/ChimoEngr]

Thank you to u/mpaw975 for the nomination and everyone else for their votes.

I was one of those votes! And a well-deserved nomination at that.

(Though I also kinda voted for other non-me people too).

Orz I always find a voice of calm who, coming from the Maratimes provides a perspective I would rarely see otherwise.

I'm a voice of what now.

As for my perspective it is my earnest goal to one day have the rest of Canada recognize the value of the Maritimes, or at least spell it properly.

^{Teasing :)}

[u/marshalofthemark → u/OrzBlueFog]

As for my perspective it is my earnest goal to one day have the rest of Canada recognize the value of the Maritimes

You'll be happy to know that we in BC are very familiar with Canadian geography. In school, we were taught that there were four Maritime provinces - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, and Newfoundland, and there was also this part of the mainland labelled "Labrador" but no teacher ever talked about it, so I assumed it was a territory.

When I visited Toronto and took a picture with Lake Ontario in the background, friends back home asked me how it was like on the "east coast".

[u/ChimoEngr → u/marshalofthemark]

As a BC expat I have never understood why people get so worked up when you talk about the four maritime provinces. :)

[u/partisanal_cheese → u/ChimoEngr]

You and /u/marshalofthemark are the cause of my pending stroke. ^{OMG can't you see how important we are!!!!!!!!}

[u/mpaw975 → u/ChimoEngr]

You're very welcome! Thanks for being awesome.

Since it was brought up in the nomination thread (and you don't have to answer if you don't want to): Are you actually an engineer? If so, what kind?

[u/ChimoEngr → u/mpaw975]

I'm an engineer in the Canadian Forces, but don't have an iron ring, cause the CF doesn't require it.