Candidates are learning about land mines, hostage
situations, nuclear and biological attacks and medicine in developing countries.
If chosen, they'll be offered a six-month contract in Afghanistan.
Helluva bootcamp program for a job slinging crullers and coffee.
In early March, Tim Hortons announced it would be opening a Kandahar branch of the popular coffee-and-doughnut chain. Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan had lobbied for the move for weeks…
The 2,300 Canadian soldiers around Kandahar can line up at the converted trailer for a familiar taste of home: timbits, cookies and double-doubles.
The first Tim Hortons doughnut shop was opened by its namesake, hockey player Tim Horton, in Hamilton, Ont. in 1964.
Horton died in 1974. His partner, Ron Joyce, later sold the chain to U.S.-based fast food chain Wendy's International, which spun part of the company off in a share offering earlier this year.
And here is the original announcement of Operation Double-Double.
Spitting on a Vancouver sidewalk is a crime punishable by a fine of up to $110, as several people of both sexes have lately found out, greatly to their surprise. Our Chinatown is large and busy and very, very Chinese, so to discover that something so iconically Chinese is actually banned is a bit of a culture shock to many. It looks like a Chinatown. It smells like a Chinatown. But, according to the new policy of enforcement, the goal is that it won't feel quite so much like a Chinatown anymore when you walk around in sandals.
business model based on ratting out the snotlings, but am not sure if it should be commission-based per incident or if we could work out some sort of pay-by-volume-of-bust deal, like with drug informers.
Tourists. Bloody tourists. Literally.
And by the way, unless my memory very much deceives me, which it does not in cases of esoteric trivia such as this, the diner is exactly the same one used for the Twilight Zone episode 
The Harry Potter that never was…yet.
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