Voting is open!! Voting will be open for the next 45 days, please vote wisely! Find each word's home page below for an explanation as to what the heck it means and why it should be Canada's new Cheers.

Cheers for Canada is a Canada wide contest to create a new, uniquely Canadian replacement for 'Cheers'. This word could be yours!

The winner will receive a party toasting their word on May 24 weekend, 2009!

Chi-ice it

Jonathan from Toronto:

"Chi-ice it. Yep, I think that comes off pretty well.
A cheers is something specific from all nations that is short, quick, to the point, and of course meaningful. Plus it's gotta have that ping!
We'll start with the "Ch", derivitive from the very word, Cheers! Definitely starts off with a ping!
Then "ice". What doesn't the word ice mean to our country and our nation - "the great white north", to cooling off our worries and coming together for an "an icy cold one", and of course the great Canadian game "ice hockey".
Then finally "it". "It" is the ever meaning term that basically wraps up the salute - A cheers to everything and anything that might be. Similar to the term "give 'er!" and a shortened version of "let's do it up!"
Picture yourself with your friends, from a bar in Nova Scotia, to a mountain top in B.C., everyone together..."

Thanks Jonathan

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