This week’s most compelling Canadian images | CBC News

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.

A woman performs on a stage as a giant image of her is projected behind her.

(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.

Workers, including one wearing a mask, are pictured waving to cars, while standing on the sidewalk near a Canada Post facility. Some are wearing posters that read: CUPW on strike.

(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.

People wearing military uniforms and poppies stand at attention.

A shot of people's legs wearing military uniforms, with wreaths resting on their legs.

(Prabhjot Lotey/CBC, Alex Lupul/CBC)

CF-18 Hornets fly over the National War Memorial during a ceremony on Remembrance Day in Ottawa.

(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.

(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 over a city street.

(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.