March 12, Sony Centre. Presenting an award to Just for Laughs, Dave Chappelle—the rare American at the CSAs—praised Canada as the U.S.’s kinder, gentler “little gay brother that I didn’t know we had.” Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World took home six out of 134 total trophies. If that sounds like a lot, it was: guests received energy bars to help make it through the show.
Modish wordsmith Kardinal Offishall and comeback comic Dave Chappelle matriarch Catherine O’Hara
Token CBC hipster George Stroumboulopoulos and joker Shaun Majumder
Son of Anarchy Kim Coates and alley ranter Rick Mercer
Karaoke king James Corden
Trillium Health Partners prez Michelle DiEmanuele and “Hurricane” Hazel McCallion with attendees Katherine DiEmanuele and Felicity Guest
Model Ramatu Ujiri with husband, Raptors president Masai
Host Howie Mandel
duo Jean Yoon and Paul SunHyung Lee
Dance floor phenom Tatiana Maslany
Designer David Dixon and partner Jeff Proppe