Canada Post put its main Christmas stamp for 2025 on sale on 6 November 2025. It appeared together with a second, lighter booklet built around a winter animal story. In the official announcement, the postal operator says that the Christmas design shows a classic Nativity scene, while the companion issue follows a fox, a rabbit, and two squirrels as they get their forest clearing ready for the festive season.
The Nativity stamp is sold in booklets of twelve permanent-rate stamps. There is also an Official First Day Cover with a cancel from Hope, British Columbia—the town name quietly echoes the idea of hope that runs through the gospel story. On Canada Post’s website and in philatelic write-ups, the picture is described as a calm, slightly old-fashioned view of Mary and Joseph with the child under the star above Bethlehem, with the Magi riding in from the hills at the edge of the image.
The illustration is by Bex Morley, and printing is handled by Colour Innovations, the same combination that has appeared on other recent Canadian Christmas issues. The palette stays on the soft side—warm robes, deep blue night sky, and the gold of the guiding star—and the composition keeps the Holy Family close to the center, with the architecture and landscape pulled back so that nothing competes with the figures.
The face value is modest, but the context matters. A Permanent™ stamp in Canada always pays the current basic domestic letter rate, so this Nativity image will travel on ordinary Christmas cards and not just on philatelic souvenirs. At the same time, the first-day link between the town of Hope and the theme of the design gives collectors an extra layer of meaning: envelope, cancellation, and picture together form a small visual sermon about light in darkness.
