Toronto Morning: What you need to know today

TORONTO – Porter Airlines says its services are coming back after a network outage that caused dozens of flight delays and cancellations.

Porter’s director of communications & public affairs says that the problem lies with Navitaire, an airline outsourcing service owned by management consulting firm Accenture.

Cancelled flights, morning of Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013:

• Flight #245 (Toronto – Ottawa)
• Flight # 610 (Timmins – Toronto)
• Flight #572 (Windsor – Toronto)
• Flight #242 (Ottawa – Toronto)
• Flight #383 (Toronto – Chicago)
• Flight #384 (Chicago – Toronto)

Here’s what else you need to know.

WEATHER

Partly cloudy with an expected high of 21.

TRAFFIC AND TRANSIT

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IN THE NEWS…

Police are investigating two more “smash and grab” type robberies in the Greater Toronto Area overnight, one at a motorcycle shop and another at a high end boutique.

A popular antidepressant has found its way to Toronto streets and has become known as the “poor man’s cocaine.”

OFF THE RAILS: Toronto’s transit is in need of expansion. Projects that would potentially cost billions of dollars have been tabled but what about using existing GO train lines?

The Hells Angels have opened a retail store in Toronto, just minutes away from the location of a former clubhouse.

Three ageing elephants at the Toronto Zoo will get one last Thanksgiving meal before making the trek to their new home at an animal sanctuary in California.

The family of Rehtaeh Parsons says they are “sick” and “disgusted” that a dating website is using their daughter’s picture in their advertisements. The ads for ionechat.com began showing up on Facebook on Tuesday.

As the search for two missing Canadians continues in New Zealand, police say they are looking at the possibility the couple’s vehicle may have been caught in a landslide.

ALSO COMING UP TODAY…

Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak and Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Doug Holyday will hold a media availability to discuss subways in Toronto. (9:30 a.m., Queen’s Park)

Premier Kathleen Wynne will make an announcement with Transportation Minister Glen Murray at 10 a.m. (Queen’s Park)

The father of Jeffrey Baldwin is set to testify today at a coroner’s inquest into five-year-old boy’s starvation death at the hands of his grandparents.

The Toronto Zoo will answer questions at 1:00 pm about the training of the elephants in preparation for their transport in mid-October. (Toronto Zoo front entrance)

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