Best pictures from December 19
Royal Route at Old Town in Warsaw, Poland, is decorated with Christmas lights.KACPER PEMPEL/Reuters
The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S. astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield blasts off at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/Reuters
A sign, flag and flowers honour victims who died in the December 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut.SHANNON STAPLETON/Reuters
Aboriginal drummers play in an intersection in downtown London, Ontario, during a protest. The indigenous peoples' rights march blocked Highway 401 before heading into London for a rally downtown.Dave Chidley/The Canadian Press
Rick Brand, Chief Operating Officer of Amendment II, shoots a 9 mm pistol into a child's backpack, left, fitted with an anti-ballistic insert, during a demonstration at a gun range in Taylorsville, Utah. Anxious parents reeling in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting are buying armoured backpacks for children. At Amendment II, sales of the backpacks and armored inserts are up 300 percent.Rick Bowmer/The Associated Press
A man walking a dog through Hillcrest Park is obscured by heavy snowfall in Vancouver, B.C.Darryl Dyck/The Globe and Mail
A woman carrying an umbrella is framed by the Lights of Hope display at St. Paul's Hospital as snow falls in Vancouver, B.C.Darryl Dyck/The Globe and Mail
James Neal of Team Stamkos scores on Team Subban goalie Martin Biron during the NHL Players’ Association Charity Challenge hockey game at Ryerson University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre, the old Maple Leaf Gardens, in Toronto.J.P. Moczulski/The Globe and Mail