AUDIO (9:55) | Feds revamp stance on idling after meeting with drive-thru group | Tim Hortons Greenwash

CBC AUDIO.
In case you missed it the first time.
We are sending this out as there are many new councillors across the country that have recently taken on this issue.
This strategy of “manufacturing scientific uncertainty” comes directly from the industry’s denialism playbook. The industry invests big money for public relations campaign to raise doubts about the [...]

Tim Hortons Drive-thru Threat Heats Up | Greenwashing at it’s Best in Comox Canada …

U.S. Corporation Tim Hortons Supercedes Government Again – This Time Municipal

Tim Hortons Cross-checks City Into Submission
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 11.13.08
The late Tim Horton never let anyone push him around, and neither does his eponymous coffee chain. They just body-checked and high-sticked the City of Toronto into submission on its plans to reduce waste, so much of which comes from that one [...]

Time For Canadians to Boycott Tim Hortons

Time For Canadians to Boycott Tim Hortons
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 11. 5.08

Two weeks ago I stopped at the Timmys just south of Gravenhurst, shown above, and walked to the edge of their parking lot with the puppy. Two feet beyond the edge of their own parking lot was this view.
That is what [...]

Denialism | Tim Hortons

Proposed drive-thru ban irks Timmy’s owner
By Elaine Mitropoulos, Comox Valley EchoMay 5, 2009
John Brocklehurst says he would think twice about opening another business in the Town of Comox should its council outlaw future drive-thrus.
“Even though it may not impact us at the moment, it could if we ever decide to go and open another store,” [...]

Tim Hortons Continues to Lead in Denialism & Greenwash Tactics in Canada

Group raises doubts over drive-thru study

December 15, 2008
Terry Pender
RECORD STAFF
KITCHENER
Tim Hortons stands by its study of pollution from idling vehicles in drive-thrus, despite a withering critique by the city’s environment committee.
A meeting of the city’s environmental advisory committee on Thursday included a harsh analysis of the [...]

Opinion | Drive-thru study isn’t convincing | The Record | Kitchener

Drive-thru study isn’t convincing

December 16, 2008
Tim Hortons has become as much of an esteemed Canadian institution as any corporate entity, but the company’s environmental policy doesn’t have the same top-notch reputation.
The coffee shop chain is going to have to do better than present the type of report it [...]

The infamous Tim Hortons as featured in the RWDI report | A picture is most definetly worth a thousand words

Here we have it:  Indisputable proof that the Tim Horton’s on Bank Street in Ottawa that does not have a drive-thru will emit less GHG emissions per vehicle visit than a restaurant with an active drive-thru. What better proof that we don’t need drive thrus (more seriously, the photos just demonstrate [...]