OTTAWA - A stolen portrait of Winston Churchill that was swapped with a dodgy forgery during the pandemic has returned to its rightful place, after two Ottawa police detectives travelled to Rome to retrieve it.And this time, it's not going anywhere from its original home on the reading room wall of the posh Château Laurier hotel."I can tell you that is is armed, locked, secured," laughed Genevieve Dumas, the hotel's general manager, after the portrait was unveiled in a ceremony on Friday."It's not moving," she said, adding that staff accidentally triggered the alarm on Thursday while they hung it up, "and I'm sure they heard it on Parliament Hill."The most famous depiction of Churchill, known as "The Roaring Lion," appears on the U.K.’s five-pound note and shows a glowering wartime prime minister staring into the camera.Renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh snapped the iconic portrait in 1941 in the Speaker’s office just after Churchill delivered a rousing wartime address to Canadian lawmakers.Toward the end of…

OTTAWA - A stolen portrait of Winston Churchill that was swapped with a dodgy forgery during the pandemic has returned to its rightful place, after two Ottawa police detectives travelled to Rome to retrieve it.

A stolen portrait of Winston Churchill that was swapped with a dodgy forgery during the pandemic returns to its rightful place today, after two Ottawa police detectives travelled to Rome to retrieve it.