Kamille (Cupcake) McKinney

FBI agents are scouring southern US states Tuesday trying to find kidnapped Kamille (Cupcake) McKinney,3. They have two suspects but fear the child has been handed off to others and now faces a dangerous, unknown fate. Then, the Kurdish men and women who helped the world destroy ISIS are themselves under attack by Turkish forces and their ego-driven president. Then, Menhaz Zaman, the man accused of wiping out his entire family in Markham last summer was in court on Tuesday. Lastly, a City News update on the re-make of the Gardiner Expressway which we alerted you to two weeks ago.

The union representing teachers at high schools across the province says it will be moving forward with strike votes after “months of delays and inaction by the Ontario government.” In a news release issued Tuesday, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) confirmed that strike votes will be held across Ontario in the coming weeks. “The government claims that it wants to resolve these negotiations quickly, but from the beginning they have done nothing to help expedite the process, and now they are simply refusing to discuss substantive issues at the bargaining table,” OSSTF President Harvey Bischof said in a written statement.

Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of Derek DeSousa, 34, of Toronto. as the driver of a vehicle that struck two women and a toddler Sunday at Ellesmere Rd. and Pharmacy Ave. Mr. DeSousa is one of three people named by police immediately after the incident as a person of interest. They now say he was the driver. He is described as white with a beard and wears glasses. He was wearing a grey sweater, black pants, and a red hat.

• Man abandoning hit-run SUV near St. Clair and O’Connor
• Three named, hunted in hit and run of toddler, two women

Photographer Bill Milne captures pasta-making at Tutto Pronto on Bayview Ave.

Big turnout for Curriculum Night at Davisville Public School (Twitter @DavisvillePS)

Awesome Sale

Native Women’s Resource Centre

Manor Road United Church

St. Cuthbert’s Women’s Dinner

St. Cuthbert’s GreatKids StuffSale

Upper left, photographer Bill Milne was taking high-class pictures Tuesday of pasta and pasta-making at Tutto Pronto, 1551 Bayview Ave. Below that is the large turnout by parents at the Davisville Public School Curriculum Night. Then a variety of sales and events this week and on into your mid-October weekend.

Air Canada crew see you as everyone but still dress like ladies and gents/Air Canada

Air Canada has changed its greeting for passengers from “ladies and gentlemen” to “everyone” in a stated attempt to be more inclusive. Aircrew remain distinctly identifiable in traditional terms as seen in the corporate photo above.

Harley Davidson stops production of electric bike

Harley-Davidson has stopped production and deliveries of its first electric motorcycle after discovering a glitch in the final quality checks. The motorcycle maker said it has discovered a “non-standard condition” with LiveWire, which it began shipping to its dealers late last month, prompting additional testing and analysis. While the company said its testing is progressing “well,” it did not offer a timeline as to when the production will resume.

2021 Hyundai Tucson at Nurburgring

New spy photos of the next-generation Hyundai Tucson are in and this time we can see the South Korean crossover testing around the Nurburgring. That’s obviously not the natural habitat of a compact high-riding family vehicle but these days automakers want to ensure their new products are capable of dealing with all kinds of driving situations, including dynamic cornering and high-speed braking.

2021 Hyundai Tucson at Nurburgring

At Dufferin and Finch/Priya Sam @PriyaSam/Priya Sam @PriyaSam

A boy of 13 was driving an SUV belonging to his friend’s dad when it tangled with a GO bus and tanker trailer truck about 5 a.m. at the corner of Dufferin St at Finch Ave Tuesday. The owner’s son, also 13, took the keys from the man’s pocket in an early-morning escapade according to the father, who was interviewed by City News. The dad says his son was a passenger in the car and that surgeons have told him they are trying to save the lad’s leg. A release issued at mid-morning says the vehicle was travelling at a high rate of speed when it struck the tanker and careered into the bus.

Suspect leaving hit and run SUV abandoned near O’Connor and St. Clair

Seen on surveillance video

Police have recovered the Dodge SUV involved in Sunday’s hit-and-run incident in which an infant and two women were mowed down on the sidewalk at Ellesmere Road and Pharmacy Avenue. A man, seen above, abandoned the vehicle near O’Connor Drive and St. Clair East in East York. It was found about 6 p.m. on Monday. Three named, hunted in hit and run of toddler, two women

The vivid reflection of ordinary people and their problems (big and small) was seen again Monday as a woman posted a now-deleted warning to a parent who she says took (or stole) a tin of valuable Pokemon cards and a slinky toy as they sat unattended on a bench at Trace Manes Park earlier in the day. There were no fewer than 45 comments in barely three hours. Many posts sympathized with the woman but others ridiculed her for posting the matter, and of attempting to communicate a warning to the alleged thief by Facebook. As noted, the thread has been deleted.

Margaret Atwood and British writer Bernardine Evaristo/Twitter @margaretatwood

Margaret Atwood and British writer Bernardine Evaristo have split the Booker Prize Monday when the judging panel named two winners of the renowned fiction prize. It was the first time the prize has been split. Chairman Peter Florence said the five judges simply couldn’t choose between Atwood’s apocalyptic thriller The Testaments and Evaristo’s kaleidoscope of black women’s stories, Girl, Woman, Other. Partly inspired by the environmental protesters of Extinction Rebellion, who were demonstrating near the prize ceremony’s venue in London’s financial district, Florence said the judges refused to back down when told the rules prohibit more than one winner. “Our consensus was that it was our decision to flout the rules,” he said. “I think laws are inviolable and rules are adaptable to the circumstance.”

Organizers insist it won’t happen again

Prize organizers didn’t see it that way. Gaby Wood, literary director of the Booker Prize Foundation, said prize trustees repeatedly told the judges they couldn’t have two winners, but they “essentially staged a sit-in in the judging room” as deliberations dragged on for five hours. Wood insisted the decision “doesn’t set a precedent.” It means Atwood and Evaristo will split the 50,000 pound (around $83,000 Cdn) Booker Prize purse — with CBC.

Leslieville photographer Colin Mcconnell has posted this sweet pup in recent hours. He remarks Dogs in the Hood…..WHAAAT….guilty Also from Mr. Mcconnell are some Thanksgiving creatures doing dinner.

A post at Ann Brown’s Leaside Chit Chat page remembers the long work of David (Sandy) Sandquist, operator of Sandy’s Bikes and Books at 95 Research Rd. It closed when the lease expired on September 30. Mr. Sandquist and his wife have bought a home in Stratford where he expects to find work in an existing cycle business. Leaside readers remark on the specialized nature of the business. There was a section for old bikes and tools that no one else seemed to have. Mr. Sandquist’s interesting amalgam also extended bikes and books to old records and recordings from time to time. Lorna Krawchuk’s interesting profile of the business and both David Sandquist and his father Thayron is at Leaside Life.