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Benicio Del Toro arrives at the official screening of Sicario at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 11, 2015. Lyle Stafford for Fame/Flynet

Benicio Del Toro arrives at the official screening of Sicario at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 11, 2015. Lyle Stafford for Fame/Flynet

TIFF 40

Kristen Stewart arrives at the premier of Equals at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 15, 2015. Lyle Stafford for Fame/Flynet

Kristen Stewart arrives at the premiere of Equals at the Toronto International Film Festival, September 15, 2015. Lyle Stafford for Fame/Flynet

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At the Toronto International Film Festival, September 11, 2015. Lyle Stafford for Fame/Flynet

At the Toronto International Film Festival, September 11, 2015. Lyle Stafford for Fame/Flynet

At the Toronto International Film Festival 40th anniversary September 2015.
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Inspirational

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The Canadian women’s sitting volleyball team is introduced at the Markham Pan Am Centre before their preliminary game against Cuba during Parapan Am competition in Markham Ontario, August 9, 2015.
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Looking for answers

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Josh Anstett at his home in Winnipeg Manitoba, June 1, 2015. Anstett has spent the past five years fighting to get the truth about how his grandfather, Denias Gerhard died in Grand River Hospital.
Lyle Stafford for the Toronto Star

Garden Hill First Nation

Boys play in an abandon car next to the muster point where hundreds will search for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 23, 2015. Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

Boys play in an abandoned car next to the muster point where hundreds will search for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 23, 2015.
Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

Volunteers from neighboring communities arrive to search for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 22, 2015. Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

Volunteers from neighboring communities arrive to search for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 22, 2015.
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A volunteer from searchs abandon cars for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 22, 2015. Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

A volunteer from searchs abandon cars for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 22, 2015.
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A volunteer looks at a photo of Teresa Robinson on a school bus while being transported to a search site on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 22, 2015. Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

A volunteer looks at a photo of Teresa Robinson on a school bus while being transported to a search site on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 22, 2015.
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Volunteers from neighboring communities arrive to search for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 22, 2015. Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

Volunteers from neighboring communities arrive to search for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 22, 2015.
Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

Boys play some road hockey at the command centre for searchers looking for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 23, 2015. Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

Boys play some road hockey at the command centre for searchers looking for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 23, 2015.
Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

Sylvia McDougal cuts moose meat to feed volunteers from neighboring communities that have come to search for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 23, 2015. Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

Sylvia McDougal cuts moose meat to feed volunteers from neighboring communities that have come to search for the remains of Teresa Robinson on the Garden Hill First Nation Manitoba, May 23, 2015.
Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

Missing and murdered

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A girl who cannot be identified stands near the Best Western Hotel where she is in Child and Family Services care in Winnipeg Manitoba, March 9, 2015.
Lyle Stafford/For the Globe and Mail

Warm hearts

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Fifty two year old Peter Ribaric, on the street for two years, tries on a scarf in Old Market Square in Winnipeg Manitoba, December 7, 2014. Chase the Chill Winnipeg’s first graffiti/yarn bombing event that distributes scarves in public places so that those in need regardless of income and without any qualifiers can help themselves.
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What an honour.

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World War ll veteran, 92 year old Len Van Roon, who landed on Juno Beach during D-Day as twenty year old, stands in the living room of his home in Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada, November 6. 2014.
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Union

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Newlyweds make their way across the street fresh from their wedding pictures on the Esplanade Riel Pedestrian Bridge in the French Quarter of Winnipeg Manitoba, October 10, 2014. Lyle Stafford/Image

Going home star

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Award winning author, Joseph Boyden speaks with the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair prior to taking the stage to discuss the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s production, Going Home Star. The company kicked off its diamond anniversary season with this world première choreographed by Mark Godden. It’s a work 10 years in the making, first envisioned by late Cree elder/activist Mary Richard and artistic director André Lewis, and in turn supported by the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the production’s associate producer Tina Keeper. The nearly two-hour story ballet openly acknowledges Canada’s painful legacy of government-sanctioned residential schools, where indigenous children were ripped from their families and forced into boarding schools.

CMHR Dance

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Ukrainian dancers make their way to the stage during RightsFest, a series of free concerts at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights during it’s opening weekend in Winnipeg Manitoba, September 21, 2014.
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Cockburn performs at CMHR

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Canadian singer Bruce Cockburn, performs during the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Concert as part of the museum’s official opening in Winnipeg Manitoba, September 20, 2014. Lyle Stafford/Image

CMHR

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Employees from Signex work on the signage for the main entrance to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg Manitoba, September 16, 2014. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights which opens September 20th, is the first national museum to be built in nearly half a century, and the first outside the National Capital Region.
Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

A disturbing view

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An elderly man, in no obvious distress, lays on the concrete at the intersection of Portage and Main in downtown Winnipeg Manitoba, August 19, 2014. Is there not a better way…
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Hope

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A family member attends the unveiling of a monument to missing or murdered Aboriginal women and girls at the Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 12, 2014.
Lyle Stafford for the Globe and Mail

Mill City

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Recently spent a few days in the very funky city of Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota. The origin and growth of the city was spurred by the proximity of Fort Snelling, the first major United States military presence in the area, and by its location on Saint Anthony Falls which provided power for sawmills and flour mills. But it is so very much more. From outstanding food to the Guthrie Theater and world class park system designed by Theodore Wirth, it is the bicycling capital of the U.S with over 170 communal bike stations. http://www.bicycling.com/news/featured-stories/1-bike-city-minneapolis
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A clear view

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Window washers clean some of the 1,669 individual custom-cut panes of glass on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, July 20, 2014. After an international competition, Antoine Predock of New Mexico was selected as the building’s architect. At 21,154 square metres, the museum will include almost a kilometre of bridges that will take visitors on an “enlightening” tour that culminates at the top of a 24-metre-high Tower of Hope. The museum which opens September 20, 2014 is the first national museum built in 45 years and the first outside the nation’s capital. Lyle Stafford/Image

Soul seats

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Church pews wait in a parking lot in Saint Boniface for just the right application in Winnipeg, Manitoba, July 10, 2014. Lyle Stafford/Image

Water world

Dozens of pieces of heavy machinery work on the Portage diversion of the Assiniboine river in Portage La Prairie

Like gigantic waterbirds, these loaders along with some 150 pieces of heavy equipment work to raise the dike on the Portage diversion which diverts flood waters from the Assiniboine river near Portage la Prairie, one hour west of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, July 9, 2014. REUTERS/Lyle Stafford(CANADA)

Really Winnipeg

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People sleep with their belongings in the City Hall bus shelter at the corner of Main street and William avenue May 31, 2014 in Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada.
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Dad and dancer

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An aspiring young dancer and her dad cross the street after attending the 34th Annual Manitoba Provincial Dance Festival at the Pantages Playhouse in the Exchange District of downtown Winnipeg. Lyle Stafford/Image

Drummer wanted

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A some what used drum kit spills out of an abandoned shopping cart on Euclid Ave in Winnipeg’s North Point Douglas neighborhood.
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Floating

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Waiting on a float plane to Vancouver’s Coal Harbour just ahead of some weather in Victoria, British Columbia, April 26, 2014. Lyle Stafford/Image

Wet

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A man drinks from a public water fountain in the Mount Pleasant district of Vancouver, British Columbia, April 14, 2014.
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Night stage

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The marquee on the Manitoba Theatre Center in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, lights up the street as it announces a coming production with no uncertainty.
April 17, 2014. Lyle Stafford/Image

Entwistle hangs up

Telus president and CEO Darren Entwistle speaks at AGM in Vancouver

Darren Entwistle, President and Chief Executive Officer of Telus Corporation
speaks to shareholders during the company’s annual general meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. After 14 years at the helm, Entwistle announced that he is taking on the executive chairman’s role at the company he helped grow into one of Canada’s three telecommunications heavyweights alongside Rogers and Bell. REUTERS/Lyle Stafford (CANADA)

The colour of spring

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The Mere hotel in Winnipeg’s historic Exchange District, makes for a colourful backdrop on a frosty-foggy morning on this the first day of spring, 20 March 2014. Lyle Stafford/Image

Mr. Ambassador

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Canada’s Ambassador to the United States, Gary Doer, on a terrace of his office at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC. Lyle Stafford for the Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg, 2014?

Winnipeg 2014?

A vintage station wagon sits on the street in Winnipeg’s North End, frozen in time as winter continues in the Ice Kingdom. Winnipeg, Manitoba , Canada. March 5, 2014.
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