Canadian Newsmaker of the Year (Time)

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.

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).

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.