Ontario Place fireworks explode over the Princes' Gate as part of the city's annual Victoria Day celebrations. Photo-montage by Miles Storey......

Tibet supporters demonstrated outside the Chinese consulate in Toronto yesterday, marching with the Tibetan Freedom Torch, which is supposed to be the symbolic opposite to the Olympic torch. Which doesn't make sense, because how can a torch be the opposite of another torch? Shouldn't it have been a large bowl of water instead? The Victoria Day weekend produced record fatalities, with eight dead as of Sunday night. The OPP stated that they were not......

This weekend Torontonians celebrate Victoria Day the only way we know how—by blowin' shit up! This is the first holiday of the year for which the public may legally purchase and light fireworks, Canada Day being the other. If you're not brave enough to light your own fireworks, there are several displays scheduled for the weekend. Illustration by Kevin McBride.......