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The crowd is reflected in Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry's sunglasses during the Raptors NBA Championship parade, Toronto, Monday, June 17, 2019. An estimated 1.5 million fans attended the parade to celebrate the Raptors first NBA title after a 4-2 victory over the Golden State Warriors. It was also the first time the title was won by a non-US team.
Serdar Khan Sherwani photographed next to the hotel where he and his family are staying since arriving from Afghanistan, Mississauga, October 27, 2021. They have completed the quarantine required by pandemic rules but remain at the hotel, dependent on the settlement agency, as they wait for the federal government to process their applications and issue their permanent residency cards.
Masqueraders of Fantazia Carnival Mas relax moments before going on stage to showcase the new costumes designed for the 2017 Toronto Caribbean Carnival, during the band's launch party at the Boss Club, Markham, Saturday, April 22, 2017. About 10,000 masqueraders and 11 bands are expected to participate in the parade this year.
Ari Zaretsky and Mona Taylor are greeted by their son, Daniel Zaretsky, during a visit to his group home in Vaughan on June 27, 2021. Mr. Zaretsky, who has autism and is non-verbal, lives in a group home for people with developmental disabilities. When the pandemic began, group homes in Ontario shut their doors to most visitors to protect their residents.
A homeless man refreshes himself inside a water fountain at Rossio Square, Lisbon, August 2nd, 2018. A heatwave hit Portugal and Spain producing near-record breaking temperatures. Thermometers approached 46 degrees Celsius and Portugal issued red alerts for extreme heat for more than half the country.
Kindergarten teacher Natalie Miller and early childhood educator Stephanie Rivard help the students with their ninja headbands moments before they leave to visit the elderly residents of Finlandia Village, Sudbury, Friday, May 31 , 2019. Every morning the kindergarten students of Larchwood Public School recite a pledge, tie on their red headbands, and transform into kindness ninjas. Their mission is to perform acts of kindness in their school and within their community.
Viggo de Oliveira, 5, meets his brother, Orson, for the first time few hours after the delivery at a Toronto hospital, August 17, 2017. The costs of basic things, like housing and child care, made their parents wait five years before deciding on having a second child. According to the 2016 census, the rate of growth since 2011 among couples living without children has been greater than among those couples living with children, at 7.2 per cent to 2.3 per cent.
Inspired by teen activist Greta Thunberg’s 'Fridays For Future' movement, thousands of people take the streets of Toronto to draw attention to the world’s lack of action on climate change, September 27, 2019. The same march also happened in more than 80 Canadian cities and in many countries around the globe.
Monica Forrester, the program coordinator at Maggie’s Toronto Sex Workers Action Project, speaks emotionally during a memorial service for Alloura Wells, a trans woman who had gone missing and was then found dead in one of the city’s woodland ravines, Toronto, Tuesday, December 12, 2017. Forrester, a trans woman herself, has long advocated for transgender people.
Lebanese army and Hezbollah members inspect the damage caused by two suicide bombs in a busy area of Beirut's southern district of Bourj al-Barajneh. The twin blasts that killed 45 and wounded more than 200 were claimed by the Islamic State. The explosions were the first attacks in more than a year to target a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon, and came at a time when the group is stepping up its involvement in the Syrian civil war.
