After refusing to allow environmentalists into the official Canadian delegation at the Bali Climate Change Conference, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has raised some hackles by bringing businesspeople, including oil company executives, into the group. Wow, he's not even pretending to care anymore. In other Bali news, a proposal to eliminate tariffs on "green" technologies was shot down at the conference on the weekend, the victim of bickering between developed and developing nations. The human......

While our experience Over The Top experience from Thursday was full of guitar driven pop-rock, Friday night was all about pianos, keyboards and synthesizers. We're still all smiles from it, it was that freakin' good. Here's why. It's hard to find a more energetic, loveable duo than Matt & Kim, who started the night at the Mod Club. With Matt on keys/synth and Kim on drums, the Brooklyn pair smiled and headbanged their way......

Despite ostensibly being the possession of a man named Tim Horton rather than some sort of coalition of men with the same name, the Tim Hortons coffee/donut chain seems to have lost its much needed apostrophe. This apparently occurred some time during the mid-90s, allegedly because of Quebec's language laws. Remember the whole "Eatons vs. Eaton's" kerfuffle? Well, Timmies decided that it wasn't worth the money to produce two sets of signs, napkins, etc.......

Weird. We caught Tuesday's CityTV news segment comparing Tim Horton's new breakfast sandwich to McDonald's established one, and the whole thing felt eerily familiar. As muted fury coloured our cheeks a brighter red than Consumer Specialist Jee-Yun Lee's coat, we recalled that five of our contributors already got together just a week ago to do the same thing. Could there be cross-medium war over mundanity? A few things that we noticed: Our sample size......

It's not often we get to recycle a post and help solve a small civic problem. Jacqueline Thorpe wrote in the National Post today about how idiotic drivers using Tim Horton's drivethrus were causing traffic chaos. Well if those drivers could fire up Find By Click's handy dandy Tim Hortons google map mashup they could simply drive down to another Tim Horton's when the line grows too long and you start blocking traffic and......

We admit that it's a bit of a stretch to file this post in the food category, but after a long night out, a fast-food breakfast sandwich can be pretty damn tasty. With that in mind a gang of Torontoist's finest minds (Patrick Metzger, David Topping, Karen Whaley, Christopher Bird, and myself) got together one morning and decided to stack up the classic Egg McMuffin against the upstart Tim Horton's Egg, Cheese and Bacon/Sausage......

The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp. is still in turmoil. The Corp. has been without a board chair since the summer. What's worse, Queen's Park, Ottawa and the City couldn't decide who should be appointed to the chair. What's worse Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has been meddling in the affairs of the TWRC. The city is getting a new $29 million arena. It's the first new arena built in the city in 25 years. The......

The Toronto District School Board is holding three public consultation nights to ask parents how they should handle the $84.5 million deficit. Jane Pitfield releases her financial platform and we don't spot many surprises: cutting business taxes, a hiring freeze at City Hall, a rollback of the pay raise to councillors. Former city councillor John Adams is joining John Sewell in a bid to unseat Joe Mihevc in Ward 21 (St. Paul's). Through a election......

We trust you all know about Beer Hunter, that delightful Googlemaps mashup that lets you search for sweet, delicious beer. But sometimes what you really need is Canada's other national drink. Yes we're talking about the caffeine and sugar concoction known as Tim Horton's coffee. With this nifty mashup you can find out where the nearest Tim Horton's is, because you simply don't know when you'll have a craving for Timbits. The fine people......

Students at West Toronto Collegiate are being tested for tuberculosis after one of their classmates tested positive for the lung disease. Health officials are just being cautious and don't think TB has spread. Cecilia Zhang's killer will get at least 15-years without parole. It's more than the 12 his lawyers were asking for and less than the 17-20 the Crown wanted. Parts of the city including the DVP are on flood alert. We're expecting 40......

The past three weeks hasn't been too good for the downtown stretch of Yonge Street. First, there was the falling advertisement outside the Eaton's Centre in mid-March, and then there was that whole Tim Horton's fire thing at Bloor less than a week ago. Just when you thought it was safe to wander aimlessly down Yonge, another weird event earlier today saw the street closed again, this time northbound between Gerrard and Carlton. The Star......

Police are still flummoxed by the Tim Horton's fire on Sunday. The Globe calls the events puzzling and the Star quotes the police reassuring Torontonians that this wasn't an act of terrorism. Both use this quote which sadly doesn't tell us much. "We don't know whether this was an accidental or deliberate act at this time," Staff Sergeant Myron Demkiw said. Harper and Co. are rolling out their agenda today with the throne speech. The......

Everyone's been reporting on the Tim Horton's explosion/fire but the Sun gets at the most important question, just what will this do to Tim Horton's stockholders? The answer, probably not much. We're getting smacked around with another mild dose of winter weather. Don't take Torontoist's word for it, take the Weather Office's. The city is staging a five day blitz on idling drivers. They're targetting the busiest part of Front St. right around Union Station.......

Nadine Giguere's bad luck with Tim Horton's devilishly addictive contest, which she commented on a couple of days ago, is enough to make front page news in today's Ottawa Citizen! Former TOist editor Joshua Errett, who's never far from our hearts, wrote the piece that's teased on the top right hand corner. The headline reads "2 Years of Rolling Up the Rim - And Nothing." Sadly it's not online.......

Torontoist is crying in our large double doubles after reading this little piece about Tim Horton's rabidly popular Roll up The Rim contest on the CBC News site. It turns out that southern Ontario Tim Horton customers have the worst odds of winning the major prizes in Timmy Ho's contest; one in 11 million versus one in four million in Quebec and one in eight million in BC! "There are only 30 cars," Greg Skinner......

D.B. Scott over at the Canadian Magazines blog pulled the numbers from the survey in the back of Toronto Life (not up yet). The question this month is about what kind of restaurant you go too when you eat out, fitting considering it's TL's restaurant issue. Chinese and Italian top the bill at 21% and 17% respectively but in a strong third is "Canadian" food at 12%. Which makes us wonder what in the world......

The Dundas strip is kind of a dry patch for baked goodness, unless you count the world's most depressing Tim Horton's on the NW corner of Bathurst and Dundas, which we do not. Good thing little lunch spot Saving Grace has a pleasant sideline doing in-house muffins and cookies. The fuzzy abstraction above is our attempt at documenting the deliciousness that is Saving Grace's lemon cranberry cookie. Huge, hearty, and neither too crispy nor......

We didn't actually spend the weekend with Crispin Glover (we didn't buy him breakfast or anything), but it got pretty close. On Saturday, Torontoist was creeping around Rue-Morgue’s Festival of Fear in hopes of catching CG for a one-on-one. Instead, we got a front row seat at his ‘Intimate and Interactive.’ Our hopes of questioning Glover regarding hate-on for Jaws director Steven Speilberg was dashed by a combination of fawning questions ("You’ve played some......

3. Finch Station (Upstairs) Any TTC traveller knows the creepy nature of Finch Station; it's almost exclusively stinky out-of-town commuters. Due to its fat parking lot and location, Finch is the transit gateway to the north, attracting any number of coffee drinking, car riding commuters.They drink their Tim Horton's or what-have-yous during their extended car ride, then unload at the Finch washrooms. It's a high stress environment. It'll no doubt be worse with all those......

The Joel Bender film Deadly, about the infamous Paul Bernardo murder case, isn't going to get too much money in ticket sales out of Queen's Park. Both Premier Dalton McGuinty and Minister Jim Watson have told the press that they will not be seeing the Bender flick on grounds that it attempts to "capitalize on a terrible and horrific tragedy." The movies producers say the film is meant to "promote predator awareness." In line with......

A sip of cultural anthropology for any of Torontoist’s American cousins who might be venturing this side of the border for March Break. Today’s lesson: Tim Horton’s, known variously by locals as Timmy’s, Uncle Tim’s or Hortie’s, depending on the region in which you find yourself. Our caffeine nation’s signature coffee joint opened its first shop in Hamilton, Ontario in 1964, and is eponymously named for its late founder, NHL hockey star Tim Horton. At......

Well, kinda. The much-awaited, revamped Sunday Star is here, as of yesterday, and, as promised, it is new. It even has an article on the meaning of 'new,' by fishing and floating philisophist Mark Kingwell. It's got week-old Times' crosswords (score! If you can wait a week), chunks of ephemera from Schott's Miscellany, and a back page summary of everything in the paper. Also, it's all colour, all the time. The only thing that doesn't......

Hurry hard? Not so fast, curling freaks! The Brier Championship, considered the premier in Canadian curling, may not roll into Toronto until at least 2008, says the Canadian Curling Association. The tournament has been a widely popular event in western cities including Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Edmonton (this year's host) and Regina (next year's curling hot spot), but most likely won't see the Upper Canada area for 3-5 years. Thousands of curling enthusiasts, including Men With......

Yesterday, our PM with the same initials admits he needs to focus more on specific issues for the upcoming year. In contrast, Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman admits nothing. It seems Smitherman and the Ontario Liberals could use the same help with focus, as they plan to toughen up their tough anti-smoking laws in the midst of greater health crisis. Within the next 18 months, the Ontario government is planning to ban all smoking in......

The poppy has traditionally been a reminder of Canadian WWII veterans, but now might be more closely associated with Tim Horton's Maple Glazed donuts. The wildly popular commemorative quarter has been available exclusively at the American-owned coffee and donut shop, despite being produced by the Royal Canadian Mint. Moreover, Timmy Ho's stores initially refused to give the quarter out to Canadians, unless of course they made purchase at the store. After snarls of commercialism and......