For a lot of Canadians, the beginning of 2021 was a beacon for higher issues to come back.
After a protracted, onerous 2020 coping with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and nice civil and political unrest across the globe, many individuals have been trying ahead to getting out in public as soon as once more and reclaiming among the extra vibrant components of life, whereas additionally hoping for a quieter yr on the information entrance.
However the yr proved to be something however uneventful. The pandemic despatched us on extra twists and turns with the invention of latest variants of the virus.
1000’s of unmarked graves have been — and proceed to be — uncovered on residential faculty properties throughout the nation.
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Discovery of unmarked graves chosen as The Canadian Press information story of 2021
The 2021 Summer season Olympics have been largely watched from our residing rooms as an alternative of crowded bars or gatherings. And Canadians throughout the nation handled excessive climate occasions that drove us from our properties or left us heartbroken and helpless as we watched from afar.
As a rustic, we proceed to press on regardless of the hardship and surprising occasions. We proceed to care for one another, mourn these we’ve got misplaced, and love these nonetheless right here with us.
The Canadian Press has shared among the most charming photographs taken by its photographers in 2021. Whereas the robust occasions are undoubtedly evident in lots of of those photographs, there are additionally photographs that remind us of the humanity and pleasure present in on a regular basis Canadian life.
A home and a barn are surrounded by floodwaters on a farm at nightfall in Abbotsford, B.C., on Monday, Nov. 22, 2021.
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Kais Bothe relaxes within the cool within the metropolis corridor pool, as temperatures hit 37 C in Edmonton on Wednesday, June 30, 2021.
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Well being-care employees watch from a window as demonstrators collect exterior Toronto Basic Hospital, on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, to protest in opposition to COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 vaccine passports and COVID-19-related restrictions.
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Individuals stand across the plinth after protesters pulled down the statue of Egerton Ryerson at Ryerson College in Toronto on Sunday, June 6, 2021. Ryerson was the chief superintendent of training for Higher Canada and his suggestions have been considered instrumental within the design and implementation of the Indian residential faculty system.
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Newlyweds Deep Punia, left, and Parminder Punia pose for marriage ceremony photographs at Pitt-Addington Marsh nature protect in Pitt Meadows, B.C., on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021.
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Antoine Valois-Fortier, proper, of Canada competes in opposition to Alexios Ntanatsidis within the males’s judo 81-kilogram weight class through the Tokyo Olympics in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday, July 27, 2021.
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Sharon Durham, pictured in Edmonton on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Durham had her uncommon most cancers surgical procedure cancelled in Saskatchewan after which rescheduled in Edmonton when Alberta was on the peak of its fourth wave.
Jason Franson / The Canadian Press
Protesters jostle with police at a protest after the town eliminated tents and small shelters for homeless folks in Halifax, N.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021.
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Cardboard cut-out followers watch the motion from the stands on the Scotties Event of Hearts in Calgary, on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021.
Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press
A lady and youngsters who have been stranded by excessive water attributable to flooding are rescued by a volunteer working a ship in Abbotsford, B.C., on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021.
Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press
A 60-year-old COVID-19 affected person fights for his life, desperately gasping for air as head intensivist Dr. Ali Ghafouri gives life-saving medical care within the intensive care unit on the Humber River Hospital through the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
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Individuals contribute to a hand portray through the Nationwide Day for Fact and Reconciliation in Ottawa on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021.
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Snow geese take to the air at Garry Level Park, in Richmond, B.C., on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021.
Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is surrounded by selfie-seeking nurses on the COVID-19 testing centre in Terminal 3 at Pearson Airport in Toronto on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021.
Frank Gunn / The Canadian Press
David Put on appears to be like over the stays of a home destroyed by the White Rock Lake wildfire in Monte Lake, east of Kamloops, B.C., Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. Put on lately bought the property and hadn’t been residing in it since transferring to Merritt, B.C., together with his spouse in 2018. He stated the individuals who purchased the home all have been capable of escape to security.
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Margot King, 4, touches an orange flag, representing kids who died whereas attending Indian Residential Faculties in Canada, positioned within the grass at Main’s Hill Park in Ottawa, on Canada Day, Thursday, July 1, 2021.
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Maesa Morris, 16, comes off Twilight Moon within the ranch bronc occasion throughout Broncs After Darkish rodeo motion on the Calgary Stampede in Calgary on Wednesday, July 14, 2021.
Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press
Warren Parke walks alongside Sparks Road in downtown Ottawa with an 80-pound cross on his again to deliver consciousness to points going through veterans and First Nations communities on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Parke set off strolling from his dwelling in Kelowna, B.C., on Dec. 17 and arrived in Ottawa, the top of his journey, on Feb. 15.
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Crews work to scrub up a spill after the derailment of a 20-car practice carrying “tar sand” and lumber close to Blackfalds, Alta., on Saturday, July 3, 2021.
Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian Press
Persons are silhouetted whereas driving the Atmosfear double swing, which lifts riders greater than 66 metres into the air whereas spinning at as much as 70 kilometres per hour, on the Pacific Nationwide Exhibition at sundown in Vancouver on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021.
Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press
Collapsed sections of bridges destroyed by extreme flooding and landslides on the Coquihalla Freeway north of Hope, B.C., are seen in an aerial view from a Canadian Forces reconnaissance flight on Monday, Nov. 22, 2021.
Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press
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