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Bans, checkpoints and soaring police costs: How Toronto-area cities are trying to dampen the ‘anarchy’ around fireworks displays

The past few years of chaos at Oakville’s Canada Day event, where hundreds of teens gathered and set off fireworks at each other and bystanders, almost led to this year’s waterfront display being cancelled entirely.

“We’ve had people get hit with fireworks. I’ve been hit with fireworks,” said Oakville councillor Sean O’Meara. “Businesses have had fireworks shot into them. It’s, kind of, anarchy.”


We have bigger problems than fireworks.

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