2022 National Pictures of the Year (NPOY) Winners

Vancouver police officers arrest multiple people during a melee while the city attempted to remove unhoused people living in tents on East Hastings in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

People skate on the Rideau Canal Skateway amid heavy snow and driving wind in Ottawa, on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. A blizzard warning is in effect for the region with Environment Canada predicting between 25 to 40 cm of snow. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

Steven Furness’ daughter is comforted by her grandmother Lorraine Furness, right, and a family friend as she cries during a vigil for her father and Paul Wynn, who were killed by a gunman during a series of attacks on homeless people last month, in Langley, B.C., on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. The suspect believed to be responsible for the shooting of four people, including the two fatalities, was shot and killed by the RCMP. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

Maria Noolook and her daughter Adelynn from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, are photographed during a car visit with an early years visitor on Oct 20, 2022. Iqaluit (the capital city of Nunavut) is the only place in the territory where Nunavut women are allowed to give birth outside of emergency circumstances, forcing many mothers to make the choice to travel south – far away from home – to access birthing services. Ms. Noolook had travelled south to Winnipeg as a birth escort for her 18-year-old niece, Adelynn’s biological mother, from whom Ms. Noolook adopted Adelynn in the customary Inuit way. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)

Residential and day school survivor Charlie Bittern poses for a photo at the Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg at the residential schools display on September 23, 2022. He entered the day school system in Berens River, Manitoba, at 7 years old where he was not allowed to speak his language of Saulteaux. When he was 10, his day school teacher hit him on the right side of his temple with a yardstick because he was late coming back to school from lunch and he took out the wrong textbook during the lesson. Bittern now takes medication daily to help him with his weak eye which was caused during the hit. He spent eight years at day school during his elementary years and four years in residential school during high school. In 1967, Bittern, then 19, was forced to run 80 kilometres through a November snowstorm by the principal of his residential school from Bagot, Manitoba, to Brandon, Manitoba. He still has scars on his right leg from a station wagon driving into him when he dodged snow drifts during that run. “No matter what the government has done to us through the residential school system, we will never die out,” he says.
(Jessica Lee/Winnipeg Free Press)

Geneva Reynen holds her daughter Lisa’s hand at Chilliwack General Hospital on Dec. 21, 2022. Reynen, who has Stage 3 ovarian cancer, was scheduled to have surgery to remove a large tumour and tissue to which the cancer had spread. But, minutes before the operation was scheduled to take place, it was cancelled – a consequence of ongoing backlogs in cancer surgeries. (Jennifer Gauthier/The Globe and Mail)

An advertisement on the side of the visitors’ bench makes, from left, Callum Chisholm (82), Zander Veccia (74), Luca Del Bel Belluz (73) and James Hardie (14) of the Mississauga Steelheads appear as infants during a regular season Ontario Hockey League game at the Meridian Centre, in St. Catharines, Ont., on Feb. 1, 2022. (Alex Lupul/Freelance)

Team Mexico perform during the mixed free combination program at the World Junior Artistic Swimming Championship on August 24, 2022 in Quebec City, Canada. (Mathieu Belanger/Aflo Images)

Residential and day school survivor Charlie Bittern poses for a photo at the Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg at the residential schools display on September 23, 2022. He entered the day school system in Berens River, Manitoba, at 7 years old where he was not allowed to speak his language of Saulteaux. When he was 10, his day school teacher hit him on the right side of his temple with a yardstick because he was late coming back to school from lunch and he took out the wrong textbook during the lesson. Bittern now takes medication daily to help him with his weak eye which was caused during the hit. He spent eight years at day school during his elementary years and four years in residential school during high school. In 1967, Bittern, then 19, was forced to run 80 kilometres through a November snowstorm by the principal of his residential school from Bagot, Manitoba, to Brandon, Manitoba. He still has scars on his right leg from a station wagon driving into him when he dodged snow drifts during that run. “No matter what the government has done to us through the residential school system, we will never die out,” he says.
(Jessica Lee/Winnipeg Free Press)