It's been quite the year for Justin Trudeau.
He scored a stunning come-from-behind election victory, became both the first offspring of a prime minister to ascend to the top job himself and the first federal leader to vault his party straight from a distant third place into office, circled the globe and created an international sensation.
And now he's been selected as Canada's newsmaker of the year.
Unlike the hard-fought Oct. 19 election, it wasn't much of a contest.
Fully 87 per cent chose Trudeau as the top newsmaker in The Canadian Press's annual survey of newsrooms across the country.
Rachel Notley, the NDP leader who put an end to the four-decade Conservative dynasty in Alberta, came a distant second, chosen as top newsmaker by just seven per cent of those surveyed.