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Peter Power and John Lehmann are each finalists in the News Photographers Association of Canada competition's top category, with other nominations going to Moe Doiron, Kevin Van Paassen and freelancer Michelle Siu. Awards will be handed out at a May 24 gala in Vancouver

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A grieving family member bursts out in tears during Dingding Mao's performance at a funeral in Chongqing on Jan. 17, 2013.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

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Mexican migrant workers wearing lifejackets make their way into a chilly cranberry bog at Maybog farms in Richmond, B.C., during the last few days of the year’s cranberry harvest.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

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Gordon Sebastian, a security guard at St. Eugene Resort and Casino in Cranbrook, look s for his mother’s grave at the cemetery attached to the former residential school, now a casino.John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail

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A bald eagle sits atop a pylon used to tie up log booms along the Harrison River near Harrison Mills, BC.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

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An eight-year-old dog lays on the operating table during a tibial plateau levelling osteotomy in Burien, Wash.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

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Carol Todd at her home in Port Coquitlam holds a photo of her daughter Amanda who committed suicide year ago on Oct. 10. Carol Todd has become an anti-bullying advocate.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

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Leah Oke from Port Renfrew surfs off of Cox Beach in Tofino, B.C., during the semi-final round of the fourth annual Queen of the Peak surf competition.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

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A female grizzly bear shows her spring cub who's the boss in Glendale River near Knights Inlet, BC.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

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An elated Amy Brillon looks down at her newborn baby, Zoe Marina, as her husband, Wylie, looks on after a successful home water birth in Richmond, B.C.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

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Golf carts and equipment are high and dry in the middle of a golf course on the Siksika First Nation East of Calgary where a boil-water advisory is in effect long the Bow River after one of the biggest floods in Alberta history.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

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Smoke from oil stoves blows in the cold arctic air at the Baffinland Mary River mine site in northern Nunavut. The temporary camp on the site of one of the largest undeveloped iron ore deposits in the world gives workers protection from the harsh sub-zero temperatures while a more permanent “camp” is constructed nearby.PETER POWER/The Globe and Mail

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Tyson Bailey's mother drapes herself over her son's coffin during the last musical tribute at the funeral for 15-year old Tyson Bailey at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Toronto. Bailey was shot to death last week in the stairwell of an apartment building in Regent Park.PETER POWER/The Globe and Mail

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One of five Jesus re-enactors for the annual Good Friday Passion Procession in Toronto, Giuseppi Rauti, 74, gets his make-up applied before his 45th year as Jesus.PETER POWER/The Globe and Mail

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Families of the missing from the rail derailment disaster there gathered on the front steps of St. Agnes Church for an emotional moment of silence. Some embraced while holding photographs of their loved ones while others simply stood and looked toward their once beautiful downtown and the charred remains of where their loved-ones perished.PETER POWER/The Globe and Mail

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Kathleen Wynne speaks during the Ontario Liberal leadership convention in Toronto.PETER POWER/The Globe and Mail

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A member of Vancouver Police Department marine unit and the owners of a sailboat try to salvage what they can and secure the washed up vessel cased by heavy winds in Vancouver's English Bay.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

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Surrounded by decoys Hunter Dale Vidulich takes aim and fires at snow goose above a farmer's field in Ladner, B.C., on the opening day of the snow goose hunt.JOHN LEHMANN/The Globe and Mail

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A young boy hides from the cold while his mother walks backward to protect herself from the cold arctic wind in Igloolik, Nunavut.PETER POWER/The Globe and Mail

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A man walks up the new pedestrian access onto the Adelaide Street and Eastern Avenue overpasses at the Don River in Toronto.PETER POWER/The Globe and Mail

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Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty paused briefly outside of his office after arriving for a Liberal cabinet meeting in Toronto.PETER POWER/The Globe and Mail

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Baseball fans look on as pitcher R.A. Dickey throws during his first start for the Toronto Blue Jays during their home opener against the Cleveland Indians at Rogers Centre in Toronto.PETER POWER/The Globe and Mail

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A fan gets creative and “fishes” for a loose ball near the home team's bullpen before the start of the season home opener of The Buffalo Bisons against the Rochester Red Wings at Coca-Cola field in Buffalo, N.Y.PETER POWER/The Globe and Mail

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Nine-year-old Rose is seen in her bedroom at her parents home in Hamilton. Rose was identified as a boy at birth, but always preferred traditionally feminine clothes and toys. By age three, she regularly told her parents that she wished she were a girl. “If I'm a girl I can truly know and be who I want to be.”KEVIN VAN PAASSEN/The Globe and Mail

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Kassidy Pelletier gets help with her graduation cap from her mother Jenny Pelletier before making her Grade 9 valedictorian speech at a temporary school in Winnipeg for Lake St. Martin students, evacuated from their home.MICHELLE SIU/The Globe and Mail

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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, wearing an Argos CFL jersey, sits in council chambers as he awaits a motion to strip him from Mayoral powers following a tumultuous day at City Hall.MOE DOIRON/The Globe and Mail

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