Live camera feeds pointed at the G20 front lines show an eerie calm before the storm.

Hosted online by residents within the G20 security zone, we watch the eerily quiet scenes not far from the front entrance of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre -- the location of tomorrow's leader's summit.

Streets normally packed with the hustle and bustle of cars, bikes, and pedestrians are almost completely barren. But the same may not be true tomorrow and Sunday.

The circus is finally arriving in town, and security is on ultra-high alert. Here's a list of things you probably shouldn't be doing in Toronto this weekend -- unless you like being interrogated and spending time in cages.

1) Play with fire (above, Carl W. Heindl)

2) Get really high (picturenarrative):

Special provincial security-related legislation is now in effect until June 28, and most of us didn't know about it until just yesterday, when the first arrest under the temporary law was made. Way back on June 2, the province secretly (i.e. very quietly) passed a new law under the Ontario's Public Works Protection Act that gives police unprecedented powers to arrest anyone within five metres of the G20 security zone who doesn't provide identification or agree to a search. This wasn't open for debate in the legislature, appeared on the province's e-Laws online database with no notice, and has the potential for abuse of power written all over it.

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Is this punk-rock-loving neighbours in rural Japan planning for a weekend social gathering in the backyard, or an enraged activist ready to launch a Molotov cocktail at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre? Police are watching us closely on Twitter and Facebook this week as part of their billion dollar security strategy. Follow and ask questions of the Integrated Security Unit (RCMP, CF, OPP, TPS, Peel) for the 2010 G8 & G20 Summits on Twitter at @G8G20ISUca.

When is security too much security? An accredited reporter was detained for hours and has an interesting story, people are reporting incidents of racial profiling near the security zone, a number of citizens unlikely to be any threat are facing explosives and weapons charges, 30 officers encircled a man being arrested for pot possession...and the G20 summit hasn't even started yet in Toronto.

Some students at Scarborough's Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute are silently cheering the circumstances. Exams have been cancelled until further notice after a fire broke out in the school last night. A 20-year old man (who's not a student at the school) has been arrested and charged with break and enter and arson.

Despite his defence strategy (that suggested he was being set up by two fellow police officers), a veteran Peel police officer has been found guilty of possession of cocaine for trafficking after several bricks of fake drugs went missing during an RCMP-led international drug sting operation. What the cop didn't know was that there were tracking devices in the bricks, which led authorities directly to his Cambridge home.

It was a wild day in central and southern Ontario yesterday. After we got shaken but not stirred, a violent weather system ripped through the Midland area, causing minor injuries and a fair amount of damage to property. It certainly appears that tornadoes touched down. Environment Canada is investigating and will make official declarations today.

Toronto experienced a rare but minor earthquake this afternoon. The Natural Resources Canada Earthquake information page appears to be being flooded with traffic and isn't responding (not good from an emergency info source!).

A Canada Post mail carrier in Toronto is the latest public worker to be caught sleeping on the job, and yesterday's Toronto Sun was all front cover about it.

Being caught sleeping on the job (inside a Canada Post box, no less!) must be embarrassing. Being shown on the front page of the Sun has to be much, much worse.

In the spirit of making light of the situation (much like I did earlier this year when a TTC worker was caught snoozing in the fare collector's box), I put out a call to the blogTO readership to have some Photohop fun with this one.