Young Syrian refugees play in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, near the city of Mafraq, Jordan, on Nov. 29, 2015. For years, the millions displaced by the ongoing civil war in Syria hardly registered on Canada's radar, but a single death this fall suddenly brought the conflict home. And the way the Syrian refugee crisis then galvanized Canadians has prompted news editors across the country to select it as Canada's News Story of the Year for 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson