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This year Canadian Atheist was a finalist in two categories for the Canadian Blog Awards and thanks to your help, we brought home some medals. Last year we won the Best Religion and Philosophy Blog, but we slipped behind an evangelical Christian mother this year.

Best Religion and Philosophy Blog

Taste and see… – momjeans80.blogspot.com – 49 Votes (26.92%)
Canadian Athiest – www.canadianathiest.com – 44 Votes (24.18%)
Whatever He Says – WhateverHeSays.blogspot.com – 43 Votes (23.63%)
Bene Diction Blogs on – www.BenedictionBlogsOn.com – 37 Votes (20.33%)
Feminist Christian Socialist – feministchristian.blogspot.com – 9 Votes (4.95%)

But to make up for that shaming, we did win the Best Collaborative/Multi-Author Blog

Best Collaborative/Multi-Author Blog

Canadian Atheist – CanadianAtheist.com     31     60.78%
DAMMIT JANET! – scathinglywrongrightwingnutz.blogspot.com     16     31.37%
Sister Sage’s Musings – sistersagesmusings.ca     3     5.88%

Now, anyone looking at these results is probably going to recognize fairly quickly that this wasn’t that great of turnout for any of the winners. The category with the most votes (Best Overall Blog) collected 883 ballots, while our winning category collected a mere 50 ballots. A well-pharyngulated poll will pull in a few thousand votes.

These straw-poll contests are a little bit of fun but need better exposure in the blogosphere to have any real meaning.