Tim Hortons is ending the practice of double cupping hot drinks, a move the fast food restaurant says will eliminate hundreds of millions of cups from landfills each year. The subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International Inc. will instead provide customers with a cup sleeve, a thick paper material that protects hands from hot beverages. Hope […]
WestJet Inc. says it’s “indefinitely suspending” operations to Moncton, Fredericton, Sydney and Charlottetown, while significantly reducing service to Halifax and St. John’s, effectively eliminating more than 100 flights weekly or almost 80 per cent of seat capacity from the Atlantic region starting Nov. 2. “It has become unviable to serve these markets and these decisions […]
One year ago, Chris Streveler spent Canadian Thanksgiving weekend digging out from Winnipeg’s record-setting October snowstorm and helping the Blue Bombers end a three-game losing streak. Fast-forward 12 months, and the 25-year-old quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals spent it flying to New York and back, where his team ended its two-game slide against the NFL’s […]
It’s over, finally. A few months later than usual, the 2020 NHL Draft has come and gone and still had all the excitement and intrigue that normally comes on Day 1 when it’s held in June. There were the expected picks. There were trades — a whopping 27. There were players that dropped and there […]
WASHINGTON, Wash. — Canada’s proposed ban on single-use plastics may not run afoul of its trade deal with the United States and Mexico, but experts suggest it disregards the “pause-and-check” spirit of the agreement. The Washington-based Plastics Industry Association added its voice this week to a chorus of complaints about the proposal, which would classify […]
The NHL and its players association have targeted Jan. 1, 2021 as the start date for the 2020-21 regular season, they announced in a joint statement on Tuesday. The news — originally reported by Sportsnet hockey reporter and NHL Network insider Elliotte Friedman — does not guarantee the league will start on Jan. 1, but […]
The coronavirus pandemic has sparked a rush for plastic. From Wuhan to New York, demand for face shields, gloves, takeaway food containers and bubble wrap for online shopping has surged. Since most of that cannot be recycled, so has the waste. But there is another consequence. The pandemic has intensified a price war between recycled […]
By Samuel Riches Jamal Murray was unavailable for this story. The kid from Kitchener — who has logged more minutes during this year’s National Basketball League playoffs than anyone else, who scored 50 points, then 42 points, then 50 points again in three straight games against a Utah Jazz team that features one of the […]
A search warranted executed at a “vacant” factory in Midland, Ont. revealed that the property wasn’t exactly empty, containing thousands of cannabis plants. The site was shut down after about a dozen officers converged on the site at about 6 p.m. on Sept. 28, according to Barrie Today. No arrests were made at the time […]
Jack could soon be out of the box in Buffalo. Semi-retired NHL insider Bob McKenzie returned to the tweet machine on Monday to drop some fairly interesting news: Sabres center Jack Eichel may (or may not) want out of Buffalo, with the Sabres front office answering calls for his services. McKenzie reports that Buffalo isn’t […]
The Minnesota Twins left third baseman Josh Donaldson off their roster for the American League wild-card series against the Houston Astros as he deals with a calf injury. Marwin Gonzalez is expected to start in his place at third base. The 34-year-old Donaldson last played Friday night in a 7-2 loss to the Reds but […]
Shopify Inc. said two employees stole data from more than 100 merchants, potentially exposing the personal information of consumers who shopped on web stores that use the company’s e-commerce software. “Rogue members” of Shopify’s support team were involved in a scheme to obtain customer transactional records from some of the merchants, the company said in […]
