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RCMP officers remove a protester who interrupted the speech of Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles at her election headquarters, Toronto, February 27, 2025.

An Air Canada flight takes off in the background as cranes are positioned to remove the wreckage of Delta Flight 4819 from the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport, in Mississauga, Ont., on February 19, 2025.

Evidence is pictured at the scene of police-involved shooting at the departures area of terminal 1 at Toronto Pearson International Airport., in Mississauga, Ont., on Thursday, April 24, 2025.

A stormy sky is seen above Longueuil, Quebec. A suburb of Montreal. The rain caused flooding in many houses.

Hundreds joined a “Elbows Up, Canada” rally in Toronto on March 22, 2025, celebrating Canadian pride as the country continues to respond to US tariffs.

Montreal Police fire a muzzle munition at the heads of radpride demonstrators. August 9, 2025.

A family suffers the effects of tear gas shot by Montreal Police into a salsa dancing event in Downtown Montreal following a radpride demonstration. August 9, 2025.

A portrait of a hunter who is breaking the neck of a bird. He is part of the Hadzabe are a traditional hunter-gatherer tribe in northern Tanzania, known for their ancient lifestyle, reliance on the environment, and egalitarian society. With approximately 1,300 members, they continue their ancestral practices of hunting with bows and arrows and foraging for plants, with a diet rich in tubers, berries, meat, and honey.
The man just killed a bird.

Enrique Esteban and his cocatoo, Bandida
28 who he takes for walks every day in Calgary parks. Unclipped, the birds fly wherever they want before returning to Esteban. As he says: “Remember — don’t humanize your pets; rather, animalize yourself.” The are pictured on August 28, 2025.

Toronto, ON – July 28: A woman takes a selfie as she cools off with friends at Gus Ryder Pool by Sunnyside Beach. The City of Toronto has extended public pool hours until midnight as a scorching multi-day heat wave continues.

Nazarene Pope, an Indigenous fancy shawl dancer, performs shortly before of a prescribed fire consumes the area in High Park in Toronto, on April 17, 2025.
The aim of the prescribed burn was to protect and restore the black oak savannahs and woodlands ecosystem at High Park by reducing weedy plants and other species that compete with the prairie vegetation. These prescribed burns have been conducted by Toronto for over two decades, but has been used by Indigenous people for much longer to help promote the diversity of flora and fauna found in the landscapes.

Home-care aide Lovelee Valenzuela helps Joan Connor, 74, who has been living with dementia for over 10 years, change into a new outfit at the home Joan shares with her husband Alan Rae, 81 on July 13, 2025.

Community Health Worker Noel Glover monitors a service user after an overdose reversal, as Riley, a fellow client Riley assist by bring a mat, at Moss Park Consumption and Treatment Service in Toronto on Friday, January 17, 2025.

A person who is addicted smokes fentanyl in a Toronto alleyway, on Tuesday November 4, 2025

Vancouver Whitecaps’ Emmanuel Sabbi does a backflip as he celebrates his goal against Valour FC during the second half of a Canadian Championship quarterfinal soccer match, in Vancouver, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.

Canada’s Jean-Simon Desgagnes falls to the ground during the men’s 3000 metres steeplechase heats on day one of the World Athletics Championships at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan, on September 13, 2025.

Addison Barger (47) of the Toronto Blue Jays reacts as Enrique Hernández (8), Mookie Betts (50), and Miguel Rojas (72) of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate a game-winning double play in World Series Game Six action between the Toronto Blue Jays, and Los Angeles Dodgers at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, October 31 2025.

The stick of Ottawa Senators’ Drake Batherson (19) catches Toronto Maple Leafs’ Chris Tanev (8) in the face, leading to a double minor penalty, during overtime period NHL playoff action in Ottawa, on Saturday, April 26, 2025.

An aerial view of a Group ok skiers waiting in line to take the chairlift at the Sommet Saint-Sauveur ski station.

University of Saskatchewan Huskies’ Maya Flindall, front, lies on the court under the championship banner and beside the trophy with teammate and Tea DeMong, back, after defeating the Carleton Ravens in the U Sports women’s national basketball championship final, in Vancouver, on Sunday, March 16, 2025.

Hannes Orlamuender and Paul Constantin Gubitz of Germany celebrate with teammates as they cross the finish line in first place during the men’s doubles competition at the FIL (Luge) World Championships in Whistler, British Columbia, on February 6, 2025.

TORONTO, ON- APRIL 24 – Toronto Maple Leafs fans gather to watch game three of the first round NHL Stanley Cup playoffs series against the Ottawa Senators in Maple Leafs Square at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. April 24, 2025.

MARKHAM, ON – FEBRUARY 22 – In the only spot of light, a swimmer waits for her heat to be called at The lifeguard skills competition in Markham. February 22, 2025.

Canadian Olympic fencer Eleanor Harvey poses for a photo in Richmond, B.C., on Sunday, April 20, 2025. Harvey made history when she won bronze in individual women’s foil, Canada’s first Olympic fencing medal, at the Paris Olympics. Since the 2024 Games, Harvey has medalled in four of the six tournaments she’s competed in, and captured Canada’s first World Cup gold in the process.

Karen Espersen, the co-owner of the Universal Ostrich Farms, shares a moment with her ostriches during feeding time at the farm in Edgewood, B.C., on Jan. 17, 2025. In December 2024, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a cull order of the ostriches following an avian flu outbreak at the farm.

Jasmine Entz, at her farm near Vulcan, Alta., poses with her pet, Beef, an eight-year-old Holstein that was recently declared by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the world’s tallest living steer. His height, 1.95 metres, shattered the mark set by an Oregon steer — and he’s still growing. “I think Beef is a fantastic animal,” says Entz, who feeds him 45 kilograms of hay a day. “He’s wholesome from the bottom of his feet to the top of his back and everything in between and inside.” The big beast’s future is straightforward, according to Entz, who also raises miniature goats. “Eat lots of food. Lounge around, not doing anything in particular,” she says. “He’s the most laid-back dude. He really doesn’t cause any trouble whatsoever.”

Lenore McLean poses for a portrait in her traditional English riding outfit at her ranch near High River, Alta., on February 23, 2025.

My 90-year-old grandmother Doreen smokes a cigarette in her dining room in Toronto on November 28, 2025.