Morning Brew: July 4, 2006

Your post-Canada Day long weekend news roundup for Tuesday, July 4, 2006:

More and more and more shootings occur in the city on a weekend where the only thing people should be shooting is fireworks into the air.

Is the trunk of your car being held down by duct tape? Get it fixed soon, because the police crackdown that resulted in over 1,000 charges this weekend isn't ending soon.

A jetliner from Montreal gets a military escort to Toronto after taking a detour from its course. Let the conspiracy theories begin.

The National Post lists some summer festivals in the city that you possibly didn't know about. Or actually, that everyone else doesn't know about, because you've already got the scoop on most of these here on blogTO.

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