{"id":8883,"date":"2025-07-01T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:36:47","slug":"fireworks-may-be-different-at-future-canada-day-festivities-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/07\/01\/fireworks-may-be-different-at-future-canada-day-festivities-in-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks may be different at future Canada Day festivities in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Region of Queens councillors recently discussed the future of fireworks at municipal events. (Pexels via Pixabay)<\/p><\/div>\n

The traditional Canada Day fireworks display on the Liverpool waterfront will go ahead this year, but it may look and sound different at future celebrations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many people in recent years have questioned whether municipalities should continue their fireworks displays.<\/span><\/p>\n

People with post-traumatic stress disorder and others who are neurodivergent can be triggered by the lights and noise from fireworks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pets and other animals can also be traumatized.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Regional councillors discussed it at their meeting in early May, after some residents took their concerns to Mayor Scott Christian.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the nature of their reservations or advocacy against the use of fireworks,” Christian told councillors, “is related to the impact that it has on wildlife, impact that it has on pets, and impact that it has for members of our community who have post-traumatic stress from certain events and the impact that loud fireworks have with respect to that, as well as folks who are neurodivergent or can become overstimulated because of environmental stuff.”<\/span><\/p>\n

District 1 Coun. Roberta Roy said most residents wouldn\u2019t be happy if the region cancelled or changed the July 1 fireworks.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I mean that park is full,” she said. “You have fireworks, you have a full park. People come in from all over the county and other counties. I just think people will say, you know, taking something else away from us.”<\/span><\/p>\n

District 3 Coun. Courtney Wentzell said he opposes fireworks because they can be so upsetting to animals and humans alike.<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>Just for the record, there are people on my end of town that have fireworks because it’s a Tuesday. … So it’s just like once the fireworks season starts and they can buy them, you never know when they’re going to be cracking off. And it does drive the dogs absolutely crazy. I think the community maybe makes the decision, not this council, but I am totally against fireworks.”<\/p>\n

Councillors voted to continue with the traditional Canada Day fireworks this year, but asked staff to investigate other options for future celebrations, including looking at using silent or quiet fireworks.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the region has decided to eliminate the largest shells during this year\u2019s show. They are also warning people to prepare themselves and their pets to cope with increased noise until about 10 p.m..\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s Canada Day celebrations are held in Privateer Park and begin at 2:30 with children\u2019s entertainers Razzmatazz and magician The Amazing Mr. J. The evening\u2019s main stage music begins at 5:30. The fireworks are scheduled to go off around 9:30.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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The traditional Canada Day fireworks display on the Liverpool waterfront will go ahead this year, but it may look and sound different at future celebrations. Many people in recent years have questioned whether municipalities should continue their fireworks displays. People with post-traumatic stress disorder and others who are neurodivergent can be triggered by the lights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3241,3243,2595,3242,3244,49,24,2594,226],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-canada-day","tag-canada-day-fireworks","tag-courtney-wentzell","tag-fireworks","tag-july-1","tag-queens-county","tag-region-of-queens","tag-roberta-roy","tag-scott-christian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8887,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions\/8887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}