This week's most compelling Canadian images
From the long journey home for The Roaring Lion in Ottawa to the Grey Cup festival in Vancouver, here are some of the best Canadian images of the past week.
After much anticipation, Taylor Swift performs to a sold-out crowd at Rogers Centre on Thursday, one of six such shows in Toronto before she wraps her 20-month world tour with three performances in Vancouver.
Taylor Swift opens her six-night Eras Tour in Toronto on Nov. 14, 2024. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Taylor Swift opens her six-night Eras Tour in Toronto on Nov. 14, 2024. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Canada Post workers are pictured on a picket line in Surrey, B.C., as part of a national strike that began Friday.
Canada Post workers are pictured on a picket line during a national strike in Surrey, B.C, on Friday, November 15, 2024. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
(Ben Nelms/CBC)
On Remembrance Day, members of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment participate in a service at the Vimy Ridge Memorial Park in Winnipeg, while members of the Canadian Navy attend a service at Old City Hall in Toronto.
Images from the ceremony at the Vimy ridge memorial park in winnipeg. (Prabhjot Lotey/CBC)
Members of the Canadian Navy are pictured during a Remembrance Day service at the cenotaph at Old City Hall, in Toronto, on Nov. 11, 2024. (Alex Lupul/CBC)
(Prabhjot Lotey/CBC, Alex Lupul/CBC)
CF-18 Hornets fly over the National War Memorial during a ceremony on Remembrance Day in Ottawa.
CF-18 Hornets fly over the National War Memorial during a ceremony on Remembrance Day in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada November 11, 2024. REUTERS/Blair Gable (Blair Gable/Reuters)
(Blair Gable/Reuters)
At the Ādaži military base, northeast of Riga, Latvia, more than 3,000 troops have been participating in a Canadian-led NATO military exercise designed to simulate an attack on the Baltic country coming from beyond its nearly 300-kilometre border with Russia.
Smoke bombs go off during the military exercises. Canada expanded its deployment in Latvia in 2023, and is committed until at least 2026. (Corinne Seminoff/CBC)
(Corinne Seminoff/CBC)
People zip line from scaffolding on Thursday during the Grey Cup festival ahead of the 111th Grey Cup on Sunday in Vancouver.
People zip-line from scaffolding during the Grey Cup festival prior to the 111th Grey Cup in Vancouver, B.C, on Thursday, November 14, 2024. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
(Ben Nelms/CBC)
Nearly three years after its brazen theft, The Roaring Lion — grimace and all — is finally back where it belongs on the wall of the Fairmont Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa. Bruno Lair, assistant director of engineering at the hotel who had discovered the 1941 Yousuf Karsh portrait had been stolen and replaced with a fake, jokingly checks to make sure the portrait is secure following a ceremony on Friday.
Bruno Lair, assistant director of engineering at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier, jokingly checks to make sure the portrait is secure following a ceremony at the hotel, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024 in Ottawa. Lair discovered the 1941 Yousuf Karsh portrait had been stolen and replaced with a fake. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
Miss Canada Ashley Callingbull takes part in the national costume show during the 73rd Miss Universe pageant in Mexico City on Thursday.
Miss Canada Ashley Callingbull takes part in the National Costume show during the 73rd Miss Universe pageant in Mexico City, Mexico November 14, 2024. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha (Raquel Cunha/Reuters)
(Raquel Cunha/Reuters)
