Women Of The Year: 33 Canadians Who Rocked 2017

For winning the Polaris Prize: The Colombian-Canadian musician beat out Gord Downie, Leonard Cohen and Feist to claim this year’s Polaris Prize for her deeply political Spanish-language album La Papessa. Pimienta also sparked conversation in October when she asked women of colour at a show in Halifax to move to the front while asking white fans to move back, and a white photographer refused. Pimienta later explained why she does this at shows in a thoughtful Facebook post: “Making space for oppressed people is a tool to level up, or at least try to create a balance or temporary equality.” —S.A.