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Cake day: October 21st, 2025

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  • First Doug and Chow demand a RTO initiative at the plea of downtown Toronto business owners and commercial landlords so that people will, essentially, be forced to buy and eat downtown. It’s not working as people simply refuse to pay. So their next brilliant idea is to get rid of bike lanes completely so that people driving will shop and eat downtown? that’s not going to work either. people are STILL going to refuse to pay. This won’t work and if anything is going to hurt businesses even more because people will simply continue to not shop downtown out of protest like they’re already doing.

    Why should I buy a $20 mediocre burger at some restaurant on king street when I can make my own lunch or a burger at home? why hop in my car and pay gas to go buy something when I can now just get it delivered on uber?

    It’s the same shit with their new proposals for renting. They refuse to acknowledge the ACTUAL issues and rather skirt around it with horrible infected bandaid solutions. We’re all broke. We all can’t afford the cost of living. Want us to live and work and shop downtown again? cool lower rents, lower the cost of everything, and the people will return and shop. Or, heaven forbid, wages increase across the board and STOP stagnating. You can’t force people to buy more when they dont’ have the money to buy more at an increased cost.








  • I can go to McDonalds and pay $2 for an extra large double double which, imo, tastes better than the mud Timmies provides which costs more.

    The food has also gotten worse. Timbits taste like crap and most places now will only make you like at most 4 different flavours of timbits. It’s just overall crap. If they had just focused on coffee and donuts then awesome but they decided to try to make everything under the sun and none of it is good. Hell they even do pizza now.

    It also doesn’t help that the majority of their employees have no clue what they’re doing and they simply don’t care. hell I don’t blame them for caring, it’s a minimum wage bullshit job, but when you end up standing at the mobile order counter for longer than standing in line to order then what’s the point? you gotta wait until one of them cares enough to acknowledge that you ordered for a mobile pickup.

    It’s just overpriced crap.