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f! Basic Black by Arthur Black I like Canadians. They are so unlike Americans. Americans. They go home at night. Their cigarettes don t smell bad. Their hats fit. Ernest Hemingway Ernie was just a young Toronto Star cub reporter goofing around on his manual typewriter when he tapped out those lines, but I think he was onto something. Canadians really are different different from Americans. Look at how we order a cup of coffee. The American preferred, [I ÜŸVKiTlMiyiFtü Paris-Hilton-sanctioned approach entails swan- ning into a fern- bedecked grotto strewn with overstuffed chairs and placing your 'order' with someone who answers to the job description of 'barista'. You give the barista your order - say, a triple-shot macchiato with half-soy, half two- percent, a sprinkle of cinnamon and hold the foam. Then you sign a lien on your Volvo to pay for it. And the Canadian approach? The Canadian double-double - the true Canadian - shuffles up to the counter, counter, lays down a loonie and mumbles "Gimme a double-double." Yes, I sing of Tim Hortons, or rather of the Milky Way of Tim Hortons outlets that bespeckle this far-flung land. Sturdy, glittering neon oases that beckon like alluring sirens to hungry/thirsty/strung- out Canadian wayfarers from Port-aux-Basques to Prince Rupert and from Whitehorse to Windsor. Tim Hortons. I'm so old I can remember when the very first Tim Hortons opened--on Ottawa Street in Hamilton, Ontario. It was 1964. The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan. Khrushchev was getting the boot in Russia, just as Dief the Chief was here in Canada. And at Tim Hortons you could buy just two things: a cup of coffee and/or a doughnut. For a dime apiece. I'm even older than that -r- I can remember when Tim Horton was a man, not a coffee shop. 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In 1988 the word 'Donuts' was quietly removed from all Tim Hortons signs. By . then, they were also selling selling muffins, hot soups, chilies and a whole range of 'grab 'n go' munchies. Not that they forgot their roots. Tims still offered doughnuts. Only now there were 63 varieties. varieties. And the Canadian love affair with the name just kept growing. That single coffee shop in Hamilton back in 1964 was such a hit they opened a couple more. By 1991 Tim Hortons executives were cutting the ribbon across the front door of the country's country's 500th Tim Hortons restaurant. Less than a decade later, they opened Canada's 2,000th outlet - in the year 2000, fittingly enough. Ah, but what happens with all great Canadian innovations? Most of them.-.be they John Kenneth Galbraith or Pamela Anderson; the Canadarm or Canada Dry Ginger Ale - get sucked up and re-located in that giant capitalist corral to the south, the US of A. And so it has been with the Tim Hortons phenomenon. It was such a success it attracted attracted the attention of the mega giant Wendy's chain, which scooped it up in 1995. An all-too familiar scenario: US Great White Shark gobbles up Canadian minnow - end of story. But a funny thing happened on the way to the cash register. The minnow turned! into a man-eater. In the first quarter, the Tim Hortons franchise turned in 60 percent of the corporation's corporation's profit. Wendy's only accounted for 40 percent. Now, Tim Hortons is expanding. into the U.S. Already there are 250 TH outlets south of the border. Within three years that number will double. And here at home, Tim Hortons is so entrenched it has entered the language. Grab a copy of the latest edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary and look up 'double-double'. It's defined defined as the way to order an extra-cream, extrasugar extrasugar cup of coffee at Tim Hortons. 1 As I write you can order a double-double at any one of 2,755 stores in Canada. The company reported sales of $2.9 billion last year. And it all started out with a hockey player. How Canadian can you get? Poem continued from page 2 Elm in Orono Faithful elm of bygone years, Still standing when all your peers Have gone. Guardian of the gabled home of steely blue, Probably as old as you. A green canopy on 0rono's Main, Your limbs stretch and strain To sunlight, Braiding themselves in ivy fashion, How great is this your passion! No straight lines for you, Vertical than horizontal runtme From gnarled knots Halted by forces unseen, Other directions are so deemed. in sorrowful places your bark Hangs like loose jowls And taurjting wire howls against The inevitable decline of sagging limbs. Geriatric support, ah, chagrin! But shady seats you do provide For the adventurous children's ride, That takes them above their imagination, Arms of rest and roost And recitation. And so your branches still meet In canopy splendour. What a joyous service you render. The smaller each branch becomes The more to each other they do run. Stalwart elm, know you are a sacred spot, A place where children's innocence Is caught, A sanctuary from stifling heat, Your leafy realm is a retreat. And under your shady canopy I stand. Be of stout heart, oh, elm grandi Much yet you have to give, Do not despair, but live And live. Margaretann Gorham ' August 17,2005