UC-23

Very well said, @fmlfmlfml. Anyone who is putting together an application is already a skilled and capable scholar. When the difference between funded/unfunded projects comes down to tenths or hundredths of a point, there is no real distinction in quality between them. The root problem is with the decay of public higher education in Canada (and elsewhere). 
Also, for anyone who's applying again next year, if it's helpful to see someone else's application, I'm happy to share mine. Not having a sense of the possibilities within the genre was one of the most difficult things for me in writing my app. Feel free to shoot me an email at carlinek[at]msu.edu 

Congrats @UC-23 !
lol I played up policy relevance a ton myself and didn’t get funded. You must have rocked it!!! CHEERS!!  
 
oh to all - PS: logging into the damn site was a nightmare for me too w all the error messages etc 😑
 
 

My email came in at 7:30pm ET last night but didn't see it until this morning (and wasted a whole night dreaming about clicking on emails that wouldn't open) 
I am funded! 
At the time of the application I hadn't defended my dissertation yet. I had two single-author articles, a co-authored public piece with a community leader, and a small public-facing digital humanities project. My research is on histories of violence/religion/gender in the recent past, so this is easier for me to do than others, but in my application I played up the policy relevance of my topic. This might have helped (see @PhDOG,ESQ's good advice above). 
In committee 2A (History, Classics, Philosophy, Religious Studies) I ranked 3/47. Score 15.53. 13 applications funded in total. Last funded award 14.36. 
For people in future years, I note that the overall success rate this year for SSHRC postdocs was 28%. This is a big improvement from the pre-2022 average of 18-20%. Maybe that's just because fewer people are willing to apply for this totally inadequate pay.  

@fmlfmlfml yup, the anticipation is so distracting. 
But this is (probably) the week! But they probably won't be sending things out on a Monday. 
Still, I'm limiting myself to checking email twice a day because otherwise I'll get nothing done.