Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Canada and the US share the world’s longest undefended border, speak the same language approximately, and as is engraved on the ‘Peace Arch’ in Blaine Washington we are ‘Children of a Common Mother’. We have a great deal in common and yet there are social and cultural
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: On King Horton’s
Dear Mr. Horton, Although I never drink the plonk that mascarades as regular joe at your outlets, and though your specialty donuts are nothing but sub-standard attempts to cash in on whatever aspect of “Canadianness” seems most exploitable at the moment, and though your iced-coffee is a caffeinated abortion, and though
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Note To Tim Hortons Head Office: Please Respect Your Workers
On Sunday, I wrote about The Toronto Star reporting that a Tim Hortons franchisee is eliminating paid breaks for his/her employees as retaliation against the June 1 increase of the minimum wage in Ontario to $11 per hour. Yesterday, I sent off a letter to the head office of the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tim Hortons Takes Aim And Fires
The advertising would have us believe that Tim Hortons is a Canadian institution and icon that we should all revere as patriotic citizens. Who can forget the role the coffee and donut emporium has played over the years in bringing caffeine comfort to early-morning hockey dads, sending underprivileged kids to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Everyone’s A Consumer Critic
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – A man has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for a destructive drive-thru at a southern Alberta Tim Hortons.Jake Krahn has also been ordered to pay restitution for ramming a stolen oilfield truck into his own pickup which then crashed through the restaurant in Taber two
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: TFWP: SHUT IT DOWN, Minister Kenney
If the C. D. Howe Institute study released yesterday isn’t a clue as to what is so fundamentally flawed with the TFWP, I don’t know what is. In its report, the non-partisan C.D. Howe Institute looked at a number of examples, but focused on what impact the program had on
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: ConservAntive senAntor argues Elections Cantada shouldn’t promote voting
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/linda-frum-stirs-controversy-with-elections-canada-questions-1.2606836
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Another Random Obervation Re Tim Hortons And Their Products
@scroll Another product nobody will buy and, hence, staff will soon forget how to make decently.— Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) February 25, 2014 Pretty slow day news-wise, I must say.
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Olympic Hockey: It’ll take Grit to overcome Sisu – are Tories patriotic enough to let it happen?
Looks like Finnish hockey to me! Can’t understand what they’re saying, but, Canadians beware, they might have Sisu. Below: A Sisu truck; Lauri Rapala, inventor of the lure of Vaaksy. To heck with politics! Let’s talk hockey, a subject on which our physically unimposing prime minister is nevertheless supposedly an
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tim Hortons History In Pictures
They’ve put together a slide-show. So far this is my favorite pic: The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Matthews promises to improve PSW compensation — but it will take time
There may soon be good news for the province’s personal support workers. “When PSWs tell me they can make more at Tim Horton’s, I sit up and take notice,” Health Minister Deb Matthews was reported to have said yesterday at … Continue reading →
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Dad Scores A Goal … With A Big Assist From Tim Hortons, Eh!
I felt like a bit of a superstar on the Conor page this morning. Yesterday we took Conor to see “Frozen” in the mall theater and we got a few things done but tried to avoid going out on the roads with some of the frantic Christmas driving going on.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tim Hortons And The Gay Coffee, Part VII: Timmys Rolls Out Its Sleeves
Something, as the article notes, that Starbucks did years ago. And so Tim Hortons slowly adopts the manner of the gay, city coffee. Because when I was a lad no man would think to use a sleeve with their morning Timmy’s. The blistered fingers were part of the rustic, every-guy
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: She Probably Ordered The Iced Coffee
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — A Tim Hortons customer has been arrested and charged with uttering threats after she was unhappy with her order. An account of my own flirtations with “order rage” can be found here. Naturally, we must all stand against crime and violence. Still, ever since the Harper
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Dear Tim Hortons: It’s Not Your Lids That Are The Problem
…but what’s in the cup. Your coffee is too patriotic, and not near gay enough. I refuse to drink it. Every double-double is as though I am casting a vote for a regressive, far-right government. It is also on the markedly bitter side. Your Mr. Hansen will discover all this
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Tim Hortons blocks customers’ WiFi access to gay and lesbian website
Last week, Canadian coffee titan Tim Hortons blocked the website of popular gay and lesbian newspaper Xtra from its public WiFi network. The post Tim Hortons blocks customers’ WiFi access to gay and lesbian website appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Message to Gary Doer: Now might be a good time to place a call to Ottawa, before you have to cross a picket line!
Canadian diplomats, as seen in the public’s imagination and doubtless as they will soon be portrayed by the Harper Government. Actual Canadian diplomats abroad do not appear quite as illustrated, even when dressed casually for picket line duty. Below: Gary Doer, Canada’s Ambassador to the United States; Treasury Board President
Continue readingAlberta Diary: With the NHL back on the ice, why not let Chinese taxpayers subsidize Canada’s billionaires?
The Great Leap Forum: what Edmonton’s luxurious new ice hockey palace could look like with a little gesture of internationist solidarity from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Communist Chinese friends. Conceptual art by Dave Cournoyer used with permission. It’s a moment of such perfect convergence that it’s astonishing Alberta’s Wildrose Party,
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Fuck Tim Hortons, Fuck HD Mining and Fuck the…
Fuck Tim Hortons, Fuck HD Mining and Fuck the “Temporary” Foreign Worker Exploitation Program! Tim Hortons coffee sucks. So do their labour practices, as do the labour practices of HD Mining and most of the other employers who participate in the Conservative temporary foreign worker exploitation program. I used to
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