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Photo by Jonathan Goldsbie.

SPORTS: It's Labour Day weekend, and you know what that means! It's time for the annual three-day soundtrack of the pending apocalypse. In layman's terms, it's the Canadian International Air Show, a celebration of flight and scared looks on tourists' faces as planes fly a little too close to the Toronto skyline. This year's performers include the Canadian Harvard Aerobatic Team, the Canadian Snowbirds Demonstration Team, and the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. Admission to the show is included when you visit either Ontario Place or the CNE. Until Monday. Exhibition Place (200 Princes' Boulevard), 1 p.m.

While we're on the subject of TTC maps (as we often are), we might as well include the most wildly ambitious one of all. Reader Ryan Felix sent us his subway map, which he describes as a "fantasy map of the TTC" in 2050. Felix says it was "created in hope to influence people to become pro-transit, and to give a vision that Toronto can have a world-class transit system."

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve!

We're not saying it's because May 21 marks the season finale of Heroes, but organizers of the Victoria Day fireworks display at Canada's Wonderland have shifted the annual event from Monday to Sunday night at 10 p.m. The big blow up at Ontario Place is also taking place on Sunday as well as Monday. Both shows start at 9:30. Meanwhile, over at Ashbridge's Bay, planners are sticking with tradition and blowing things up on the day that actually commemorates the birth of the Monarch. Ashbridge's Bay is the city's only free fireworks display (if you don't count watching the Ontario Place event from the Exhibition grounds) and the explosions will begin at 9:45. All events are weather permitting. And finally, if you're planning on holding your own backyard symphony of fire, the City has posted a list of safety tips so that Burning Schoolhouse will incinerate, not you.

Cirque du Soleil's much-anticipated new show, , opens tonight in that signature blue and yellow tent next to Ontario Place. If Torontoist's trusty informant (we're in with one of the ushers) is to be believed, Cirque's latest offering once again promises the usual suspension of the laws of physics, this time for a story involving a clown's funeral procession.

The Mayor Makes Pancakes at 9:15am.