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Lynx Air has started flying to Toronto.
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Air Canada recently announced it had ordered 26 of the Airbus A321XLR, and leasing some of them means it could be one of the first airlines to start flying the new type in the first quarter of 2024.
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Air Canada Goes Extra-Long With Commitment For 26 Airbus A321XLRs

The airline will take 20 aircraft from lessors and will purchase six from Airbus.
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Just over two years since the last one was seen at Pearson, a Boeing 747 carrying passengers (Lufthansa) has returned. (Cargo versions of the 747 have continued to operate there, although those are seen mostly at night.)
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Massive Russian plane stuck at Toronto Pearson after being grounded indefinitely
Russian Volga-Dnepr Antonov An-124 Impounded In Canada
It's still there as of today (April 12).
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And April 16.
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The former Air Canada manager wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for his alleged role in the largest gold heist in Canadian history is preparing to turn himself in, according to his lawyer.

Simran Preet Panesar is wanted on charges including theft over $5,000 in connection with the April 2023 theft of more than $20 million in gold from Toronto's Pearson International Airport.

Panesar is "very confident in the Canadian justice system," his lawyer, Greg Lafontaine said in a statement to CBC News. "When this prosecution is over, he will have been absolved of any wrongdoing."

Peel Regional Police say Panesar quit his job last summer and disappeared. The charges against him and eight others were announced in April at the same time as police said the task force investigating the heist had executed 37 search warrants and so far recovered $430,000 in cash, six pure gold bracelets worth about $89,000, as well as smelting pots, casts and moulds.

Lafontaine said Panesar retained him as soon as he learned he was wanted on charges in Canada. Lafontaine then contacted police and the Crown prosecutor to tell them Panesar planned to return voluntarily to Canada in the next few weeks.

"He is anxious to have an opportunity to demonstrate his absolute innocence," Lafontaine said.

Lafontaine said Panesar is "tidying up his affairs abroad in preparation of his return to Canada."

He did not say where Panesar is, citing safety concerns. But CBC News has been investigating the possibility he has been in India with his wife, Preety Panesar. She is not believed to have been involved in the heist.
 
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The former Air Canada manager wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for his alleged role in the largest gold heist in Canadian history is preparing to turn himself in, according to his lawyer.

Simran Preet Panesar is wanted on charges including theft over $5,000 in connection with the April 2023 theft of more than $20 million in gold from Toronto's Pearson International Airport.

Panesar is "very confident in the Canadian justice system," his lawyer, Greg Lafontaine said in a statement to CBC News. "When this prosecution is over, he will have been absolved of any wrongdoing."

Peel Regional Police say Panesar quit his job last summer and disappeared. The charges against him and eight others were announced in April at the same time as police said the task force investigating the heist had executed 37 search warrants and so far recovered $430,000 in cash, six pure gold bracelets worth about $89,000, as well as smelting pots, casts and moulds.

Lafontaine said Panesar retained him as soon as he learned he was wanted on charges in Canada. Lafontaine then contacted police and the Crown prosecutor to tell them Panesar planned to return voluntarily to Canada in the next few weeks.

"He is anxious to have an opportunity to demonstrate his absolute innocence," Lafontaine said.

Lafontaine said Panesar is "tidying up his affairs abroad in preparation of his return to Canada."

He did not say where Panesar is, citing safety concerns. But CBC News has been investigating the possibility he has been in India with his wife, Preety Panesar. She is not believed to have been involved in the heist.
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Quit his job months after the heist and moved out-of-country. Hmmmmm.
 


Gold stolen in Toronto airport heist now likely overseas, police admit​


Peel Regional Police have quietly conceded that millions in gold stolen from Toronto Pearson Airport in April 2023 was likely quickly smuggled out of Canada to the Middle East or South Asia.

"We believe a large portion has gone overseas to markets that are flush with gold," lead investigator Det. Sgt. Mike Mavity told members of the Peel Police Service Board during a June 21 meeting.

"That would be Dubai, or India, where you can take gold with serial numbers on it and they will still honour it and melt it down…. And we believe that happened very shortly after the incident."

Police have been investigating the low-tech robbery for almost 15 months — probing how a man gained entry to an Air Canada Cargo terminal with a duplicate waybill for a shipment of seafood, and then drove off with a palette full of gold bars. But few updates have been given to the press or public.

On the first anniversary of the heist, investigators held a splashy media conference to announce they had arrested nine men in connection with the case and were searching for three others.

Yet little was said about the links between the alleged criminals, or what ultimately happened to the 400 kilograms of still-missing gold.

The new Police Service Board briefing — delivered on a summer Friday, with no media present — came on the heels of a CBC News investigation highlighting several lingering questions about the heist, including the force's assertions that the robbery was a case of "reverse alchemy" where gold became guns, as evidenced by the seizure of 65 pistols. Peel Police declined an interview request for that story, and refused to answer written questions, even those pertaining to the most basic details of the crime.

Members of the board devoted several minutes of the meeting to criticism of the CBC News report, but the presentation by investigators validated much of the content of the CBC investigation.
 
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