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Newsstand: December 2, 2009
Canadian Tire may stop printing their candy-coloured paper money? But the for-pretend currency will shortly be available as coins? So—let’s get this straight—the TTC won’t trust us with streetcar tokens, but a private company will mint very its own home-and-hardware doubloons so we can continue to hoard Sandy McTire to our heart’s content? Could those two please swap management? Anyway, don’t get too excited. In this economy, Canadian Tire income tax can’t be far behind.
An athletic bandit who’d eluded capture after nine house burglaries couldn’t quite pull off a tenth break-in. Guess he got greedy. Police arrested Jose Leocadio, 27, and have laid “numerous charges” after someone saw him trying to enter a Davenport house “through a door on the home’s second floor.” No word yet on whether that door was on a balcony or fire escape of some sort, or if the police have arrested Batman.
How does a trip through a parking lot end with a driver running over a pedestrian on the pavement, smashing through a brick wall into a store, and plowing through twenty metres of home decor displays? For hours after the accident, police were still waiting for a way to get the wrecked SUV out of the store (eventually they were able to drag it back through the two-metre hole it had left in the wall). Astoundingly, the driver was not hurt, though Subaru is unlikely to make a selling point of that.
“Art imitates life” is grimly fitting: police have turned to sculpture in the hope of learning more about someone who was killed in a suspected hate crime committed over thirty years ago. Based on still-unidentified skeletal remains, a high-quality bust presented to the public is a last-ditch attempt to identify the male victim aged twenty-five to forty, whom police believe was dressed as a woman at the time of the homicide. The only thing anyone knows about the case is that the skeleton was found a short distance from Toronto’s city limits in 1980. Here’s hoping someone finally steps forward, barely a week after Transgender Day of Remembrance, and at least recognizes the victim.