Athlete Donovan Bailey was Time's Canadian Newsmaker of the Year in 1996.
The Canadian Newsmaker of the Year was a designation awarded by the Canadian edition of Time magazine. It came with a written piece reflecting the magazine's staff's opinion on which Canadian or Canadians have had the most impact on the news, either positively or negatively.[1] The honour has also been known by the title Canada's Newsmaker,[2] or by titles such as "Headliners" and simply "Newsmakers" which were shared with non-Canadians. However, the exact phrase "Canadian Newsmaker of the Year" has been used by Time.[3] This selection is not to be confused with the Canadian Press' separate selection of a Canadian Newsmaker of the Year, or with Time's overall Person of the Year.
Time's practice of selecting a Canadian Newsmaker of the Year began in 1995. Columnist Robert Fulford has speculated that the point was to try "gesturing politely to Canadian readers".[4] In early years, the selection received a short article within a list of other international newsmakers. Thus, the 1995 newsmaker was found under the title "Headliners: Canada"[5] and in subsequent years phrases like "Others Who Shaped 1997",[6] "Others Who Shaped 1999",[7] and "Newsmakers 2000"[8] were used. Since 2001 the selection has been accompanied by a fuller article, and interviews with the subjects have also appeared (for example, in 2001[9] and 2002,[10] but not 2003). Still, the press has noted that even with the Canadian edition of Time, it was the Person of the Year rather than the Canadian Newsmaker who was pictured on the cover of the issue.[11]
It has not been awarded since the discontinuation of Time's Canadian edition in 2008.
The selections have been at the centre of other cases of media attention and debate. For example, the Montreal Gazette said of the project in general that it was initially "dull" in favouring seemingly conventional men, but that 2003 provided a refreshing selection of two homosexual men and commentary on liberalism in Canada. The Gazette took this as recognition from a US magazine that Canadians are distinct from Americans.[12] All awardees were people, except in 2007 when the Canadian Dollar was named the Canadian Newsmaker of the Year. There was never a woman selected as Canadian Newsmaker of the Year.
^ a b cScott, Gavin (25 December 1995 – 1 January 1996), "Headliners: Canada: Lucien Bouchard", Time Canadian Edition, pp. 60, 69
^ a bSibbald, Peter (29 December 1997 – 5 January 1998), "Others Who Shaped 1997: Paul Martin", Time Canadian Edition, pp. 72–73
^Handelman, Stephen (1999-12-27), "Others Who Shaped 1999: Canadian Supreme Court", Time Canadian Edition, pp. 110–111
^Handelman, Stephen (25 December 2000 – 1 January 2001), "Newsmakers 2000: John Roth", Time Canadian Edition, pp. 88–89
^"Interview: Getting Ready For the Future", Time Canadian Edition, p. 73, 31 December 2001 – 7 January 2002
^Frank, Steven; Handelman, Stephen (30 December 2002 – 6 January 2003), "Paul Martin: Interview: Martin's Priorities", Time Canadian Edition, p. 58
^Kubler, Sara; The Associated Press (2003-12-26), "Time Magazine picks soldier as 'person of year'; Honour does not endorse Iraq policy", The Windsor Star, pp. C.9
^"We're certainly different", The Gazette, pp. A.30, 2003-12-26
^"New North Star: An amazing Olympian Blazes Across the Skyline and Ignites National Pride", Time Canadian Edition, p. 50, 30 December 1996 – 6 January 1997.
^ a bIgnatius, Adi (27 December 2004 – 3 January 2005), "Canadian Newsmaker of the Year", Time Canadian Edition, p. 6.
^Gray, Ken (2001-12-26), "Time's man behind the shutter", The Ottawa Citizen, pp. A.2.
^Purvis, Andrew (28 December 1998 – 4 January 1999), "Others Who Shaped 1998: Lucien Bouchard", Time Canadian Edition, pp. 102–103
^Tibbetts, Janice (1999-12-21), "Supreme Court named newsmaker of the year", The Windsor Star, pp. B.10
^"Time names Nortel CEO Newsmaker of the Year", Cape Breton Post, p. 6, 2000-12-19
^Handelman, Stephen (31 December 2001 – 7 January 2002), "Canada's Newsmaker: Border Guardian", Time Canadian Edition, p. 69.
^Spector, Norman (2002-12-30), "That old fox Chrétien outsmarted them all", Calgary Herald, pp. A.19
^White, Tarina (2006-12-18), Harper big news, Calgary Sun, archived from the original on 2013-01-15, retrieved 2007-02-20{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^CBC.ca (2003-12-21), Gay couple Time's Canadian newsmaker for 2003, CBC.ca, retrieved 2007-02-20
^Quinn, Greg (19 December 2004). "Time's Canadian Edition Names Maher Arar Newsmaker of the Year". Bloomberg. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
^Garvey, Bruce (2004-12-21), "Person of the Year a Farce", National Post, pp. A1
^Akin, David (2005-12-19), Gomery is Canada's 2005 newsmaker, Canoe, archived from the original on 2014-09-14, retrieved 2014-09-14{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^"Time unveils top newsmakers", Star-Phoenix, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, pp. D.8, 2005-12-19
^Byfield, Ted (2006-12-31), "PM just too much for media", The Calgary Sun
^Lofty loonie named Time's top Canadian newsmaker, CBC.ca, 2007-12-20
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