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Whether we like it or not, some of us will be in Toronto all summer, with nary a trip or vacation elsewhere in sight. As a remedy, we've created Tourist. Every weekend morning, bright and early, of the summer we're featuring a photo (or two) from a globe-trotting photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

Toronto had a violent weekend with nine people shot and four of them killed, including an 11-year-old boy at a birthday party. Two more people were stabbed. Cue relatives wailing, Police Chief Bill Blair saying "this is unacceptable," and headlines like "Saturday Night Bloodbath." We’ve seen all this before. Solutions, anyone?

And so the penultimate day of the festival ends. To be honest, it really does almost feel like day nine was kind of the final day; certainly for press and industry, anyway. All of the press screenings end by the afternoon, and it’s the last day the press office and the video tape library are open all day. We had a fairly quiet day, filling in some films that we didn’t get a chance to see in the festival until now, before hitting the Peter Mettler Elsewhere event and the Midnight Madness. We heard that there was a Vice Magazine party on, but we also heard something ridiculous like it was held in an abandoned factory that was on fire.

The Canadian Olympic team had a strong finish to their first week of competition on Sunday. Cindy Klassen received her third medal of the games in the women's 1000m speed skating. Finishing four one-hundreths of a second behind the Netherlands Marianne Timmer, Klassen was awarded her second silver medal to go along with her bronze from last week's 500m competition. Along with Pierre Leuders and Lascalles Brown's 2-man bobsleigh silver, the Canadians finished the first week in a tie for fifth place with 13 medals. Canada looks to add to add to their pair of golds Monday afternoon, as the women's hockey team is virtually a sure thing against their over-matched Swedish oppontents.

For all you Firkin loving, Molson drinking, Tragically Hip listening, Oh Canada singing folks who can't live without hockey, you'll be glad to hear that Canada has advanced to the Semi-finals of the IIHF World Championships following a 5-4 victory over Slovakia on Thursday afternoon. The Canadians completed the comeback triumph with 4:22 left in the third period, as locked-out Boston Bruin captain Joe Thornton found the back of the net over former Nashville Predator yet still locked-out netminder, Jan Lasak's glove.

Good news for Canadian hockey fans - and it doesn't even involve our self-important, hockey-hating buddies, Gary B. or Bob G. (Although Gretz recently sounded off on the fortunes of the NHL, read here if you still care.) No, this hockey news is that the Canadian World Junior Hockey Team reached the Gold Medal game with a 3-1 win over the Czech Republic in Sunday’s semi-final. Canada is now set to face a familiar enemy on Tuesday night, as the Russians beat the host United States to also advance.