It’s 63 here right now and there’s a predicted major storm this weekend.
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guerrilla signage at the LCBO (place to buy wine & spirits in Ontario, which has taken US products off the shelf) for Wayne Gretzky’s (famous Canadian hockey player, now making unfortunate waffle statements) branded offering.
Tim Hortons is a previously beloved coffee chain (also named after a hockey player) which has gone downhill and is no longer Canadian owned afaik
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I love how much explaination you put into this 
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lcbo stands for ‘liquor control board of ontario’ and was a gov’t monopoly on anything non-beer (you could get beer at The Beer Store). There has been more loosening of where you can get alcohol, because why maintain a system that makes the gov’t a nice amount of ongoing revenue when you could just do a fire sale to your friends or cut it off at the knees and pay a contract breaking fee? this is how you know the current folks in power are fiscally sound.
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Explain the boiled racoons comment
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a raccoon, aka Toronto’s favourite local mascot the trash panda
while Canadians will eat moose, I don’t know anyone who has voluntarily eaten raccoon. Given their omnivorous diets in the cities, the expectation would not be good, esp if boiled.
there was one in the tree in our neighbour’s backyard yesterday, we could see it’s fluffy backside. they are clever buggers, and very good at getting into things that were designed to keep them out. Hidden cameras reveal the funnier side of animal behaviour | Nature of Things
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TIL…
(I did have to check the article didn’t date to April 1…
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I think it comes down to the diet. just like geese. I would eat a wild Canada goose that was taken in Newfoundland, but not one taken in southern Ontario.
eta: there is also a field of research about how the raccoons in the city are fatter and more clever than their country cousins City Raccoons Are Smarter Than Their Country Cousins - Neatorama
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I feel like in one of the Little House books there was an ordeal with roasting a raccoon? I can’t remember if it was Little House or another series…but I have vivid memory of them describing how greasy it was haha
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Wait, WHAT?
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I remember some episode of Queer Eye when they were in New Orleans, the guy they were helping was totally happy to eat raccoon. His wife … was not. 
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which bit? named after a hockey player? or complex ownership?
Wikipedia:
" Restaurant Brands International Inc. (RBI) is a Canadian-American multinational fast food holding company. It was formed in 2014 by the $12.5 billion merger between American fast food restaurant chain Burger King and Canadian coffee shop and restaurant chain Tim Hortons, and expanded by the purchases of Popeyes and Firehouse Subs in 2017 and 2021, respectively. The company is the fifth-largest operator of fast food restaurants in the world
“3G Restaurant Brands Holdings LP, an affiliate of the Brazilian investment company 3G Capital, owns a 32% stake in Restaurant Brands International”
however, Timmies themselves would like you to know that they’re Canadian
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Tim’s isn’t Canadian and has shitty coffee. Fight me.
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Also exploitative labour practices.
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Also Burger King kept operating in Russia (and I think still is). 
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Thank you for the short introduction to Canadian economic history. I just know that all my Canadian expat friends in China used to seem SOOO happy when they went home to visit and could get their fix of TH.
I guess it is kind of like US people being happy about finding Starbucks in Italy. Or something.
I liked Starbucks in the 80s when they were local.
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This is about me.
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From what I’m reading it sounds like it’s all at least partially Brazilian. Company ownership is WILD
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It is!
And if I had been away from Canada and the things I need to make my tea right, I AM happy to drink Tim’s and feel comforted until I am home with supplies. But the chain sucks now.
When I was finishing University Tim’s was aggressively recruiting us to work in Alberta at huge rates of pay. Now Canadians don’t want to work minimum wage at Tim’s especially in HCOLA so instead of raising wages they get TFWs. And then they often don’t treat those workers well.
If they can’t afford to pay a wage people will work for, they can raise their prices or, realistically close
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