Rose's Cantina

Forty years go today, Tim Horton wiped out in his sportscar near my St. Catharines home. The rest is history. Poor Tim didn't get to enjoy the spoils of the Tim Horton empire. Apparently, his business partner did very well by him. Then so did Dave Thomas, late of Wendy's. And now that l'll red headed girl has cashed in, and is wearing cashmere sweaters and talking on television about burgers with more than a hundred grams of fat. I don't think she's as good a huckster as her dad. Apparently, unlike Dave, Wendy's not very good at driving traffic. So they've replaced her with a younger redhead who runs around extolling the virtues of slabs of cow tucked into ciabiatta bread. It's just so darned adorable. But I digress. Dave sold the company back to a Canadian company a few years back. Or did Wendy? I think Dave was dead by then and I'm too darned lazy to google it. Anyway, this blog is not about the ownership of Tim's, it's about a ser...

At last, someone has come to the aid of our little Buckaroo friend, the Beaver. Grant Hooker, the CEO of BeaverTails -- that gooey, doughy, bad carb mess --has decided to erect a three metre tall Beaver monument festooned with 147 Christmas lights to protest a Tory Senator's call for the termination of the Beaver's status as Canada's national symbol. Nicole Eaton is asking Canadians to consider dispatching the toothsome rodent in favor of the Polar Bear. It's about time someone stood up for the Beav. Consider the fact that the Beaver represents the multicultural nature of this country. He is a brown. The Polar Bear is a white and we know that whites have dominated these soils for far too long. Secondly, Beavers are plentiful in lakes owned by people of both linguistic nations, and it is a proud resident of all First Nation communities. The Polar bear is a resident of the North. It should therefore be considered a marginal candidate for the iconic status ...