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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.

Weird.

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 sandwich.

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 Toronto District School Board is holding three public consultation nights to ask parents how they should handle the $84.5 million deficit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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%.

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 too gooey. Kind of like a scone, or better yet a combo of a muffin and a cookie - what Torontoist likes to call a muffcake.

We didn't actually spend the weekend with Crispin Glover (we didn't buy him breakfast or anything), but it got pretty close.

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and various Maxim Magazine spreads. As it stands, Bender and his movie have not been picked up for Canadian release, so it seems like a veritable non-issue for Dalton (although banning the film is not totally out of the question).

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 5am most winter weekends, you’ll find bleary-eyed soccer moms and hockey dads in line, fuelling up for a cold day at the rink watching Pee Wee practice (and ordering up an assortment of Timbits, those delectable bite-sized donut holes). Beyond the typical orders for a double-double (double cream, double sugar), close observers will notice another, more peculiar ritual exclusive to this time of year, wherein before discarding their waxed cardboard take-out cups, customers suck or gnaw at the lip of the cup. This is not some bizarre Northern mating ritual (or a prelude to throat-singing); it is the annual instalment of the chain's Rrroll Up the Rim To Win promotion, a craze which débuted in 1986 (chances of winning a prize under the rim, from free java to SUV, are 1 in 9). One caution: in Torontoist’s experience, it is best to drink all the contents first.

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 quite gel as of yet are the Harpers-style snippets, hastily pulled from websites, like topics on an exotic dancer's chatroom. And a business piece on the fried versus the flourishing that tries to compare Tim Horton's (with thousands of shops across the country) to Krispy Kreme (a novelty shop, with just a few attraction-style locations across the country).

star Paul Gross, have lobbied for the Brier to come back to the Toronto since it left the city in 1941. Former Premier Mike Harris, father of the Common Sense revolution, has also raised eyebrows at the prospect of more curling in the GTA. If the plan follows through to bring the Brier back to its roots (it started here in 1927), longer than average line-ups are expected at local neighbourhood Tim Horton's.

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.

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 greed came from as far as the U.K., the "remember our veterans with Tim Horton's donuts" campaign disappeared. Though strong demand could see the coins released into circulation through the more traditional outlet of Canadian banks, the implications here are obvious: exploiting WWII veterans could be Canada's next boom industry.