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It is on CTV news channel. Just breaking - explosion in a coffee shop in downtown Toronto, Canada. Reporter just talked about some sort of explosives strapped to a guy and explosion occured in a busy district of the city. Will keep you posted!

Tim Hortons to open in Kandahar Move follows call by top soldier Mar. 8, 2006. 02:46 PM HAMILTON?Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan are getting their wish ? Tim Hortons will be serving double-doubles and doughnuts soon enough. After weeks of lobbying by the military, the chain agreed to set up a coffee shop to serve soldiers in Kandahar, said Ron Joyce, who co-founded the famous chain in Hamilton in 1964 with NHL player Tim Horton. No timeline has been set but Joyce, who retired and sold his share of the company years ago, says he's been told it will happen "shortly."...

HALIFAX -- Robert Chetwynd's eccentric behaviour -- including trips through the local Tim Hortons drive-through on a horse -- has earned him the nickname Coffee Cowboy. The Barrington Passage, N.S., resident says he has spent $7,000 so far in legal fees to defend what he asserts was his right to take his horse anywhere he pleased: on the road, to store parking lots, to fast-food takeout windows. The 35-year-old lobster fisherman and part-time carpenter made headlines last year when he refused to stop riding his chestnut quarter horse through the town's drive-through. He says that the horse, which authorities have...