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Tim Hortons
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Inside Tim Hortons’ new downtown headquarters
With 21 coffee stations, a massive testing kitchen and digital trash cans
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Q&A: Tim Hortons’ head marketing honcho explains the brand’s millennial-focused Innovation Cafe
What does a move to court millennials mean for Timmies' loyal base?
Food & Drink
Here’s what went on at the
Toronto Life
Doughnut Festival presented by Dufferin Mall
Hundreds of doughnut-crazed Torontonians turned up on June 25 for the first Toronto Life Doughnut Festival presented by Dufferin...
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Maple leaf-shaped burgers, cake-flavoured cereal and 10 other ways brands are cashing in on Canada’s sesquicentennial
Nothing says patriotism like a meat patty in the shape of a maple leaf
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A baker’s dozen of deep-fried and downright dirty dishes at the Canadian National Exhibition
Part freak show, part thrill ride, the CNE's over-the-top food offerings test the boundaries of what can be deep fried, served on...
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Burger King’s takeover of Tim Hortons may be bad news for Canadians
—A conservative estimate of the amount of tax revenue that could be lost by the Canadian government over the next five years as...
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Adore Tim Hortons? This guy thinks you’re dumb
If you're the kind of Canadian who considers few things more sacred than a Tim Hortons double-double, prepare to choke on your Old...
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Tim Hortons debuts weird Buffalo-sauce doughnut; Gawker calls Canadians “food-confused”
The orange beauty above is a Tim Hortons Buffalo Crunch doughnut (a yeast doughnut dunked in Buffalo sauce and crusted with corn...
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Burger King buys Tim Hortons; everyone makes the same joke
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Time to consider selling your Timmies stock
—The price per share of Tim Hortons stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange at 1:24 p.m. this afternoon, a more than 20 per cent...
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The woman who spilled her tea at Tim Hortons: “I’m not going to sell my legs”
— Nancy Ceci , the Richmond Hill woman who suffered second-degree burns after her boyfriend accidentally spilled an extra-large...
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Tim Hortons is handing out free doughnuts this week
Tim Hortons is celebrating its semicentennial this week by giving away free doughnuts. The anniversary celebration starts...
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Ditching the danish, and four more ways Tim Hortons is trying to stay relevant
Tim Hortons, once Canada’s reigning coffee chain, has tumbled from its throne. Starbucks shops are everywhere, indie cafés are...
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Year in Review: the 17 biggest food stories of 2013
Toronto’s food scene has its idiosyncrasies, but it doesn’t exist in a bubble. There’s a bigger food world out there, and...
Food & Drink
Roncey loses a beloved coffee shop, gains a shiny new Timmies
Alternative Grounds, one of the first Toronto cafés to boast an eco-friendly mandate and 100 per cent fair-trade beans, has been...
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Tim Hortons’ first new coffee blend since 1964 “actually tastes like coffee”
After half a century pouring the same old brew, Timmies is branching out with a brand-new blend. The darker, bolder roast, made...
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Quoted: Jason Priestley gets super intense about doughnuts, Tim Hortons and our nation of doughnut-eating people
–Ex-90210 star Jason Priestley, a celebrity judge in Tim Hortons’ design-a-doughnut competition, works himself into a...
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Tim Hortons is making a new blend of coffee for the first-time ever
For the first time in the coffee-and-doughnut giant’s near 50-year history, Tim Hortons is creating a new roast. In a...
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A posh new coffee house opens in the Financial District
Dineen Coffee Co. is bringing a little coffee cred to the downtown core, an area otherwise dominated by Starbucks and Tim...
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Starbucks is renaming its Blonde Roast to sound more Canadian
As part of its never-ending quest to lure coffee drinkers away from Timmies, Starbucks has launched a campaign to find a more...
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See what Canadian icons like Justin Bieber and the BlackBerry look like as doughnuts
Fresh off its Ryan Gosling mug PR coup, Tim Hortons created a Double Down-like creation on Tuesday featuring a Timbit inside a...
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See what happens Ryan Gosling and Tim Hortons become one
Canada’s top acting brand, meet Canada’s top coffee brand. In a recent Tribute.ca interview, Ryan Gosling, who’s apparently...
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Canada’s most valuable brands include a lot of banks and two telecom rivals
Consulting firm Brand Finance Canada released its list of Canada’s top 50 brands earlier this week, and we’d bet the...
Food & Drink
Tim Hortons launches a new shop in Oman, moving one step closer to world doughnut supremacy
Tim Hortons announced today that it has opened its first café and bake shop in the Sultanate of Oman. The location is the 20th in...
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
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The
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alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand