[press release]
Canada Post Community Foundation issues grants of $1.2 million to better the lives of children
118 groups across the country will receive funds to help children, as new stamps go on sale to raise funds for next year’s grants
OTTAWA – The Canada Post Community Foundation today announced approximately $1.2 million in grants to 118 groups that help children in communities across Canada, as new stamps went on sale to help raise funds for next year’s grants.
In addition to the annual stamp issue, the Foundation raises funds through a five-week in-store campaign to solicit point-of-sale donations from customers, from local fundraisers by
employees, and a year-round employee payroll donation program. Funds go to organizations that operate in the province or territory in which they were raised.
Over the past eight years, the Foundation has granted more than $8 million to hundreds of initiatives. They include literacy and language programs, youth outreach services, gender and sexual diversity programs, arts and recreation projects, special education programs, childhood health programs, anti-bullying initiatives, mentoring programs and many others.
Among this year’s organizations receiving grants are:
- Kids Help Phone, which helps children and youth through 24/7 bilingual professional counselling and support services;
Easter Seals Alberta, for its Camp Horizon Earth Program, an adaptive hiking program for kids with disabilities or medical conditions;- Les YMCA du Québec, for its Alternative Suspension Program, which supports suspended students who benefit from more structure than traditional school suspensions offer.
About the Foundation
Established in 2012, the Canada Post Community Foundation for Children provides grants to Canadian schools, charities and organizations in an effort to make a difference in the lives of children in our communities.
About the stamp issue
The 2019 Canada Post Community Foundation stamp issue is the work of Chad Roberts, of Chad Roberts Design Ltd, with illustrations by Joanna Todd. The brightly coloured pair of stamps – featuring whimsical frozen treats, strolling hand in hand – invokes nostalgia and reminds us that childhood should offer sweet memories. The stamp is available at Canada Post outlets throughout Canada and online at www.canadapost.ca/shop.
[Official First Day Cover (“OFDC”) and the inside of the stamp booklet are illustrated below.]
La Fondation communautaire de Postes Canada verse 1,2 million de dollars en subventions pour améliorer la vie des enfants
118 groupes d’un bout à l’autre du pays reçoivent des fonds pour aider des enfants, tandis que de nouveaux timbres sont mis en vente pour recueillir de l’argent pour les subventions de l’année prochaine
OTTAWA – La Fondation communautaire de Postes Canada a annoncé aujourd’hui le versement d’environ 1,2 million de dollars en subventions à 118 groupes qui aident des enfants dans des communautés d’un bout à l’autre du pays et le lancement de nouveaux timbres afin de recueillir des fonds pour les subventions de l’année prochaine.
En plus de l’émission annuelle, la Fondation recueille des fonds à l’aide d’une campagne de cinq semaines pour solliciter les dons de clients en magasin, de collectes de fonds
effectuées par les employés et d’un programme de retenues à la source auquel les employés peuvent participer tout au long de l’année. La subvention que reçoit un organisme provient de fonds qui ont été amassés dans la province ou le territoire dans lequel il exerce ses activités.
Au cours des huit dernières années, la Fondation a distribué plus de 8 millions de dollars à des centaines d’initiatives, notamment des programmes de lutte contre l’intimidation, d’alphabétisation et de langue, de mentorat, d’éducation spéciale et de santé visant les enfants, des services d’aide pour les jeunes, des programmes sur la diversité de genre et sexuelle, et des projets artistiques et récréatifs.
Voici quelques-uns des organismes auxquels une subvention sera versée cette année :
- Jeunesse, J’écoute, qui aide les enfants et les jeunes tous les jours, 24 heures sur 24, grâce à des services de counseling et de soutien professionnels bilingues;
Easter Seals Alberta et le Camp Horizon Earth, pour le programme de randonnée adapté destiné aux enfants handicapés ou ayant des problèmes de santé;- Les YMCA du Québec, pour son programme Alternative Suspension qui aide les élèves sous le coup d’une suspension et ayant besoin d’un programme plus structuré que celui offert dans les écoles traditionnelles.
À propos de la Fondation
Fondée en 2012, la Fondation communautaire de Postes Canada pour les enfants verse des subventions aux écoles, aux organismes de bienfaisance et aux organisations du Canada afin de faire une différence dans la vie d’enfants de nos communautés.
À propos des timbres
L’émission de 2019 de la Fondation communautaire de Postes Canada est l’œuvre de Chad Roberts, de Chad Roberts Design Ltd, et les illustrations ont été réalisées par Joanna Todd. Ces deux timbres aux couleurs vives, ornés de friandises glacées se promenant main dans la main, évoquent la nostalgie et rappellent que grandir devrait créer de doux souvenirs. Les vignettes sont offertes dans les comptoirs postaux du Canada et en ligne à www.postescanada.ca/achat. 

WASHINGTION — The U.S. Postal Service announced today that this year’s contemporary holiday stamps will highlight wreaths to welcome the season. The Holiday Wreaths Forever stamps will be issued later this fall, providing plenty of time for mailing greeting cards. Details will be announced soon. These stamps will be among several holiday-themed stamps that will be available this year.
The Digital Color Postmark measures 2.97″ x 1.22″
The B&W Pictorial measures 2.67″ x 1.38″


A global superstar, Elton John is one of the most successful recording artists of all time and has, over his 50-year career, achieved one diamond, 38 platinum or multi-platinum and 26 gold albums. He has been awarded 13 Ivor Novellos, five Grammys and the Grammy Legend Award, five BRITS, including the first BRITS Icon Award, an Academy Award, a Tony Award and a Golden Globe.
He has been deeply influential to successive generations of songwriters. His work has been covered by hundreds of artists in different genres, from Ed Sheeran to Aretha Franklin to Lady Ga Ga.
Elton John, said: “To say I was surprised when Royal Mail got in touch, is an understatement. Never did I think I’d appear on a stamp! It’s wonderful, a great honour.”
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platinum, and 26 gold albums, over 50 Top 40 hits, and he has sold more than 300 million records worldwide. He holds the record for the biggest-selling single of all time, “Candle in the Wind 1997”, which sold over 33 million copies. Diamonds the Ultimate Greatest Hits album, reached the Top 5 of the UK album charts on its release in November 2017, becoming Elton’s 40th UK Top 40 album in the process. This release celebrated 50 years of his song writing partnership with Bernie Taupin. August 2018 saw Elton named as the most successful male solo artist in Billboard Hot 100 chart history, having logged 67 entries, including nine No. 1s and 27 Top 10s.
Elton announced the Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour at New York’s Gotham Hall in January 2018. Encompassing 5 continents, and over 350 dates, this 3-year-long tour started in September 2018 and marks his retirement from touring after more than 50 years on the road. In May 2019 it was named Billboard’s Top Rock Tour. To date, Elton has delivered more than 4,000 performances in more than 80 countries since launching his first tour in 1970. 2019 has already seen the release of ‘Rocketman’, a fantasy musical motion picture of his life and his autobiography Me will be published later in the year.
Among the many awards and honours bestowed upon him are six GRAMMYs, including a GRAMMY Legend award, a Tony and an Oscar, a Best British Male Artist BRIT Award, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Kennedy Center Honor, Legend of Live Award, 13 Ivor Novello Awards between 1973 and 2001and a knighthood from HM Queen Elizabeth II for “services to music and charitable services.”


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“None Swifter Than These: 100 Years of Diplomatic Couriers” opens Sept. 14 at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum. Developed by the Diplomatic Security Service of the U.S. Department of State, the exhibition is on view through Jan. 26, 2020.
MONTRÉAL – Canada Post today unveiled three stamps honouring Leonard Cohen, whose songs over a five-decade career distilled the desire and pain of romantic love and
explored the darkness and light of the human experience.
the mid-1960s, the income from writing four books of poetry and two novels left him struggling “to pay my grocery bill,” he once recalled. After returning to Canada from the Greek island where he’d lived for years, the self-taught guitarist discovered the folk music movement sweeping North America. He tried his hand at writing songs. He played some privately for singer Judy Collins, who loved them. A folk and pop star, she sang two of them on her next album, becoming one of the hundreds of artists who would record Cohen’s songs during his life. He released his first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen, in 1967.
“Leonard was always deeply appreciative of his Canadian heritage, and would have been moved by this honour from Canada Post,” says Robert Kory, Cohen’s manager, estate trustee and friend.
MONTRÉAL – Canada Post will unveil a stamp set honouring Leonard Cohen at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, overlooking the grand Cohen mural on Crescent Street, on Friday, September 20.
MONTRÉAL – Postes Canada tiendra le dévoilement de timbre rendant hommage à Leonard Cohen au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, dans la verrière ayant vue sur la grande murale de Leonard Cohen sur la rue Crescent, le vendredi 20 septembre.









be presented in two Miniature Sheets
host to the 2019 men’s and 2017 women’s tournaments. The paintwork will be in place for three months and will be complemented by a permanent gold plaque
The men’s Miniature Sheet comprises four stamps; each capturing a moment of celebration following England’s thrilling World Cup Final victory against New Zealand at Lord’s Cricket Ground.
Each sheet will include two 1st Class stamps, alongside two £1.60 value stamps and retail at £4.60. Fans can pre-order the stamps now; online at
Royal Mail has also decorated 15 special edition postboxes at each venue used in the tournament to mark the historic achievement of both England teams. The first postbox painted was outside Lord’s Cricket Ground where both sold-out finals were held.
Bristol County Ground – Bristol

CHICAGO – Chicago Philatelic Society (CPS) will present its annual philatelic exhibition, CHICAGOPEX, Nov. 22, 23 and 24, 2019, at the
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In a letter, Vilhjalmur Sigurdsson, Iceland Post’s Head of Philately, says the agency’s philatelic operations, PostPhil, will cease at the end of 2019, after about 90 years in operation.
“The current management of Iceland Post Ltd., prefers if possible to stop issuing new stamps altogether,” Sigurdsson writes. “If the company must keep on issuing new stamps in 2020 and onward the number of new stamps will be very few each year and there will be no service for stamp collectors.” What stamp production remains may be handled by outside contractors.


