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According to the Globe, which actually studied this, the availability of Starbucks in any given riding offers no indication of which direction on the political spectrum the inhabitants will vote. And that includes the latte-sipping, laptop-toting set from downtown Toronto that was so mocked around the time of the municipal election.
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Is Canada’s high-low culture war a figment of John Doyle’s imagination?
For the second day in a row, the Globe and Mail‘s television columnist, John Doyle, is boldly claiming there is a culture war going on in Canada that’s taking place on our television screens and in the pages of our books. Today, Doyle rails against the perceived elitism of both the Giller Prize and the Gemini Awards, both of which he claims laud praise on work that satisfies an overeducated few. What people really want, says Doyle, is entertainment for the masses. His evidence? The popularity of Stephen Harper and Rob Ford.
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Top Rossi aide preparing to jump ship, order doughnuts
The most delicious story this Monday morning has to be the Globe’s report on a top Rocco Rossi aide who is contemplating jumping to the Rob Ford campaign (and bringing a bunch of staffers with him) should Rossi drop out of the race. Like all great Canadian conspiracies, the sensitive negotiations took place at Tim Hortons:
John Capobianco offered his support and that of a handful of Rossi staffers during a Sept. 29 meeting at an Etobicoke Tim Hortons with Nick Kouvalis, Mr. Ford’s deputy campaign manager, sources tell The Globe and Mail.
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Five things we learned about Tim Hortons from the recent Maclean’s exposé
Always fresh? (Image: Ann Baekken)
The paradox represented by Tim Hortons‘ “always fresh” frozen doughnuts got a thorough examination last week in a long Maclean’s feature examining why Archibald Jollymore, former executive vice-president, and others are launching a whopping $1.95-billion class action lawsuit against the doughnut chain. The case pits Jollymore, a cousin of Tim’s co-founder Ron Joyce, against current president (and Joyce’s successor) Paul D. House, and is laced with the family feuding, backhanded commentary, executive rivalries and all the other prerequisites for a juicy corporate scandal.
Here, five things we learned about Canada’s doughnut titan.
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The swag series: George Stroumboulopoulos’s celeb guests take ketchup chips and Clamato back to the U.S.
Exotic Canadian Clamato
What it is: Guests of Strombo’s new show, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, get their pick of some sweet swag in the Made in Canada Lounge at CBC headquarters. Housed behind the set in an area normally cordoned off for props, the space has been transformed into a CanCon cloud nine complete with furniture from The Bay and Queen West shop Design Republic.
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Five things we learned about Canada from Esquire magazine’s grudging cross-border compliment
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The stories just keep on coming: Canada has weathered the economic crisis relatively well, thanks to our prudent and stable banking system. We’ve been praised for it in The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and, earlier this week, Esquire. The monthly offers the compliment only backhandedly, though. Esquire expresses complete surprise that Canada could actually do something right, and dedicates a sizable amount of text to explaining why we suck so much. Below, the five key things we learned about our homeland from the glossy men’s mag.
Wave of boredom hits downtown Toronto as it waits for G20 chaos
José Lima and Abudu Adam get an early start on their protesting (Image: Jon Sufrin)
Compared to the ruckus caused by World Cup revellers on College Street this morning, the area around the G20 security zone was eerily silent. We could almost hear crickets on University Avenue, and the Tim Hortons at Bay and Richmond—usually thronged by caffeine addicts—sat completely empty. In fact, the only people noticeably populating the area were police officers, though none of them tried to evoke their new superpowers on us (we brought extra ID, just in case).
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Wait times massive at Pearson Airport’s Toast! Café
Nothing to see here (Image: Josh McConnell)
Passengers travelling to Lester B. Pearson International Airport were told to expect “significant delays” today due to the arrival of world leaders for the G20 and G8 summits. They weren’t kidding: wait times approached nearly seven minutes for chicken noodle soup and a cup of Red Rose tea at the Terminal 3 Toast! Café. “Wow, I waited longer for soup than I did to check in,” we thought, flipping though a copy of Vogue we purchased at the gate B12 newsstand after a lengthy browse.
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“Worst beverage in America” available at Tim Hortons
(Image: Marc Majcher)
Just as Canadians were congratulating themselves on their nation-wide health consciousness for rejecting the allure of the Double Down comes the news that Canada’s national ambassador, Tim Hortons, is home to a snack that makes KFC’s sodium speedball look positively ascetic. The drink that Men’s Health has declared the “worst beverage in America” is available right here in the GTA, all thanks to Timmies’ penchant for brand partnerships.
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Tim Hortons eyes China and India as part of world domination scheme
Rim-rolling epidemic to spread across the world (Image: saipal)
Tim Hortons is planning to expand its legacy (and its conspicuously poor grammar) to the rest of the world within the next four years. While the chain has a tenuous foothold in some parts of the U.S.—including 12 locations in New York City—Timmies execs will pitch an international growth strategy to the board of directors next month. The symbol of all that is Canadian also wants to break out of breakfast and snacks to boost sales at other times of the day.
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Tim Hortons exempt from Kandahar fast-food ban
The double-double is no trouble (Image: Richard Hsu)
In a clamp down on fun at the Kandahar air field, a number of fast food joints that supposedly distract soldiers—Burger King, Pizza Hut and Subway, among others—are being shut down on Saturday. But, puzzlingly, soldiers will still be able to get their Tim Hortons fix.
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Tim Hortons adapts to American way of life as doughnuts become hamburger buns
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When Tim Hortons started opening locations in the United States a few years ago, we mused that a distinctly Canadian operation might have trouble assimilating. How would Timmies fare in the world of Krispy Kreme and Starbucks? Well, today our worries are put to rest. Thanks to a recent blog post on My Inner Fatty, we can see Tim Hortons doughnuts are fitting in nicely with the American way of life.
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Kandahar-based Tim Hortons employees now eligible for medals, worship
Tim Hortons employees working at the Kandahar Airfield won’t need to roll up the rim to win anything; they’ll just need to keep serving coffee, which is now, apparently, a medal-worthy endeavour. A recent revamp to the process by which the Canadian Forces acknowledges overseas service means that the General Service Medal, which was previously awarded to military personnel, will soon be up for grabs by civilians—including Tim Hortons employees.
Junk food and cocaine pretty much the same thing: study
Jonesin' (Image: Alexey Krasavin)
Science is perfecting the art of proving the patently obvious. A new study published in Nature Neuroscience recounts how lab rats that were fed bacon, sausage and cheesecake became dependent on the high-calorie goodies in order to feel good. The co-author writes that, much like other pleasurable activities (sex, drug use), eating can trigger the release of feel-good chemicals in the brain, which can lead to addictive behaviour. The rats that were given the high-fat diet also had access to healthy rat chow, but they ignored it. This all demonstrates two things that have been evident for decades to any pet owner who’s gone through a breakup: 1) fat feels good, and 2) the deliciousness of sausage transcends the animal kingdom.
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BNN legitimizes McDonald’s–Tim Hortons coffee war in excruciatingly long taste test
James, Taylor sniff out the goodness (Image: BNN)
We knew the country’s post-Olympic patriotism would settle down, but not like this. The Business News Network spent nearly 20 minutes analyzing every last drop of the McDonald’s–Tim Hortons coffee war, and, long story short, they believe McDonald’s coffee tastes better than Timmies’.
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