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Gustavo Castelar of Firebat Coffee Roasters on the Joys of Salvadoran...
Of all the small roasteries to open throughout Southern Ontario in recent years, few are able to offer as direct a connection to coffee’s origin than Firebat Coffee Roasters. Firebat...
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Kathleen Edwards on Music, Quitters Coffee and Cafe Culture
Throughout celebrated musician Kathleen Edwards‘ catalogue are sympathetic narrators teetering above vast emotional precipices, looking for soft landing spots or threatening to fly away altogether. In...
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Aegis Sells Canadian Coffee Giant Second Cup to Foodtastic for US$11 Million
Ontario, Canada-based Aegis Brands is selling 45-year-old Canadian coffee retail giant Second Cup Coffee Co. for $14 million CAD (approximately $11 million USD) to Quebec-based restaurant franchising...
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Imagine All the Lattes: Kruve Expands Glassware Collection
Specialty coffee glassware and accessory maker Kruve has expanded its selection of coffee-oriented vessels with the Imagine line of glasses designed specifically for milk drinks. The handle-free...
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KW Coffee Collective Brings Co-Roasting to Ontario, Canada
A new shared roasting (a.k.a. co-roasting) business called KW Coffee Collective has arrived in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, offering small roasting companies and retailers a relatively low-barrier...
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% Arabica Enters Canada with Snowy White Toronto Flagship
Japanese coffee chain % Arabica has opened its first store in Canada, inside the Yorkdale Shopping Center in Toronto. Following a roastery and cafe that opened in Brooklyn, New York,...
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Espresso is Flowing at Black Creek Coffee in Georgetown, Ontario
A new coffee shop from Black Creek Coffee in Georgetown, Ontario, has opened the local floodgates to specialty coffee. Debuting last fall about an hour northwest of Toronto, the Black...
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Coffee Association of Canada Launches Annual Awards
The Coffee Association of Canada (CAC) is launching an awards program, honoring individual coffee professionals for lifetime achievements or volunteer efforts, and businesses or organizations for...
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Regal Ware Sells French Press Brand Espro to Toronto’s DKK
Home manual coffee equipment maker Espro (styled as “ESPRO” by the brand) has been acquired by DKK, a Canadian company with Chinese manufacturing ties that owns two other home beverage...
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Three Questions with Muna Mohammed of Canada’s Eight50 Coffee
Born in Ethiopia as the granddaughter of a coffee farmer but raised mainly in Canada, Eight50 Coffee Founder Muna Mohammed had a profound experience when seeing coffee’s origins for the...
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