Finally! The city of Toronto has announced that Toronto Island Park, including Centre Island, Centreville Theme Park, Ward’s Island and Hanlan’s Point, will reopen to the public on Monday, July 31 2017.

The regular summer ferry schedule will resume on Monday, with the first ferry departing from the mainland for Ward’s Island at 6:30 a.m. and the first ferry departing from the mainland for Centre Island at 8 a.m. City of Toronto recreation programs will also resume on Monday. Online ticket sales start today; island visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance to avoid ticket kiosk lines.

All beaches on the island will be open with lifeguards on duty, however, portions of some beaches will be in a reduced state. Signs will clearly indicate areas that are closed to the public. Olympic Island remains closed to the public due to high water levels.

Members of the public are reminded that other areas of the city continue to experience flooding impacts and are asked to remain cautious in areas with flooding. People should pay careful attention to all safety information and to updates on flooding conditions along the city’s waterfront areas.

Starbucks announced today that they will be closing down all its Teavana stores. The company said it will close all 379 Teavana locations over the coming year, with the majority closing by Spring 2018, including its 54 locations in Canada.

“The company concluded that despite efforts to reverse the trend through creative merchandising and new store designs, the underperformance was likely to continue,” Starbucks said in a press release. “The approximately 3,300 partners impacted by these closures will receive opportunities to apply for positions at Starbucks stores, as Starbucks remains on track to create 240,000 new jobs globally and 68,000 in the U.S. over the next five years.”

The announcement came as Starbucks said global sales rose four per cent at established locations for the quarter ended July 2.

Click here for more information on this news!

For the month of August, expect a lot of great things to be happening over at Netflix Canada, as they have just released what their new lineup will be for the next month and there is a lot of good and not a whole lot of bad. There are over 60 movies and TV shows being added to the streaming service, including some Netflix originals like Surviving Escobar: Alias JJ and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later.

We’ve broken the shows and movies down by release date, but you can also check to see if the movie/tv show has an asterisk beside it. This will indicate that the movie/tv show has received an 80 percent or higher ranking on Rotten Tomatoes, which is the internet’s go-to resource for determining the quality measurement of  TV shows and movies.

August 1-3:

• Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock
• Boychoir
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes***
• Ex Machina***
• It Follows***
• Jackie***
• Land Girls, Series 1-3
• Maz Jobrani: Immigrant (Netflix Original)
• Opening Night
• Planet of the Apes (2001)
• Ripper Street, Season 5
• Rules Don’t Apply
• Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, Season 2, Part B (Netflix Original, New Episodes Weekly)
• Still Alice***
• Surviving Escobar: Alias JJ, Season 1 (Netflix Original)
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• The Royal House of Windsor, Season 1
• Walking with the Enemy
• Woman in Gold
• Words and Pictures
• Hook
• The Founder***
• The Truman Show***

August 4-10:

• Alan Saldaña: Mi vida de pobre (Netflix Original)
• Chelsea, Season 2 (Netflix Original, New Episodes Weekly)
• Icarus (Netflix Original)***
• Insidious: Chapter 3
• Voltron: Legendary Defender, Season 3 (Netflix Original)
• Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, Season 1 (Netflix Original)
• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Season 7
• Psycho***
• Ricki and the Flash

August 11-17:

• Allied
• Atypical, Season 1 (Netflix Original)
• Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, Season 3 (Netflix Original)
• Naked (Netflix Original)
• White Gold, Season 1 (Netflix Original)
• Pan
• All These Sleepless Nights
• Barbecue
• Brad Paisley’s Comedy Rodeo (Netflix Original)
• The Sweet Life
• Lee Daniels’ The Butler
• RV
• Minority Report***

August 18-23:

• Dinotrux, Season 5 (Netflix Original)
• Glitter Force Doki Doki, Season 1 (Netflix Original)
• Marvel’s The Defenders, Season 1 (Netflix Original)
• The Bye Bye Man
• Unacknowledged
• How to Get Away with Murder, Season 3***
• Lynne Koplitz: Hormonal Beast (Netflix Original)
• The Blacklist, Season 4***
• The Intern
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

August 24-30:

• Fences***
• School of Rock***
• Sixteen Candles***
• Death Note (Netflix Original)
• Disjointed, Part 1 (Netflix Original)
• DreamWorks Dragons: Race to the Edge, Season 5 (Netflix Original)
• Love & Mercy***
• The Mist, Season 1 (Netflix Original)
• Personal Shopper***
• Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack
• Ryan Hamilton: Happy Face (Netflix Original)
• The Perfect Guy
• War Room

Coming on July 25th, McDonald’s Canada is bringing out some crispy and fresh new items to the menu. If you’re palette is one that appreciates spicier items, then you’ll be excited to learn that McDonald’s is bringing out a guacamole and jalapeño chicken sandwich. This sandwich features guacamole, tomatoes, jalapeños slices, fresh grilled chicken, cheese and fresh lettuce.

The other new offering is more of a classic chicken sandwich, which will include crispy chicken, red onion, sliced tomato, lettuce, mozzarella cheese and a delicious new sauce.

These sandwiches are going to be released on July 25th, and will be around for a limited time after they’re released.

Click here to find the nearest McDonald’s Canada.

Tim Hortons Canada has announced that they will be launching a new app that will allow customers to pre-order food and drinks with the tap of their thumb, only to be picked up later at the physical store.

This new app is going to launch sometime next week, with Wade McCallum, who owns six Tim Hortons in B.C. and Alberta, saying that the beta version will be available by July 27th.

The app is a similar set up to most fast food ones that are currently available, where it features pictures of the menu items so that the customers can easily select and modify what they’d like to order. Another useful addition to the app’s technology is that it will know when the customers are close to their preferred Tim Hortons.

Click here to learn more about the Tim Hortons app.

The Home Depot Canada has a new FREE workshops available today! The Home Depot Canada today FREE workshops includes: Do-It-Yourself Workshops – Build a Garden Pond: Build, landscape & stock flexible liner ponds.

Participants will learn how to build, landscape, and stock flexible liner ponds and allow them to practice as many of these steps as possible.

The Home Depot Canada FREE workshops is valid today, Sunday, July 23, 2017 – 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm.

To book your slot at a workshop, contact your local Home Depot location.

Click here to get all Home Depot Canada online offers.

Click here to view The Home Depot flyers

One of Canada’s staples for print and shipping needs will be closing up shop, the company announced earlier this week. FedEx Canada will no longer be operating their Office Print and Ship Centres and will be closing 24 shop across the country, including the head office in Toronto.

In total, there will be 214 employees laid off from this closure.

The company released a statement saying that:

“The decision to discontinue our operations in Canada was difficult as we’ve enjoyed a 32-year relationship with our team members and customers in Canada.”

There are 18 office centre locations in Ontario, five in B.C. and one in Halifax that will be closing their stores.

Click here to learn more about the closure of FedEx.

Cineplex Canada has released their new schedule. The Cineplex Canada Family Favourites Movies include:

• Today, Saturday, July 22, 2017 at 11am the film A Monster Calls, Drama, Family, Fantasy, is the Family Favourites for $2.99 (1h 49m).

Here’s the upcoming movie every Saturday morning at 11am for Cineplex Family Favourites at $2.99 each:

July 2017:

• Saturday, July 29 2017: Monster Trucks

August 2017:

• Saturday, August 5, 2017: Pup Star
• Saturday, August 12, 2017: Lego Batman
• Saturday, August 19, 2017: Pup Star 2 Premiere
• Saturday, August 26, 2017: Pup Star 2 Encore

Sebtember 2017:

• Saturday September 2, 2017: Power Rangers
• Saturday September 9, 2017: Smurfs: The Lost Village
• Saturday September 16, 2017: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
• Saturday September 23, 2017: The Princess Bride
• Saturday September 30, 2017: Boss Baby

Click here to see a list of Cineplex participates in the Family Favourites event.

Click here to get tickets from Cineplex online

*Reminder to Redeem* This is a friendly reminder that the one day only redemption date is today, Friday July 21, 2017! Don’t forget to redeem your coupon: Get your FREE Mott’s Fruitsations rolls fruit flavoured snack with the purchase of one Fruit by the Foot fruit flavoured snack (any size).

Enjoy 🙂

A series of tightened security measures on air travel to the U.S. could translate to longer wait times at Canadian airports and difficulties with electronics — especially if they aren’t fully charged. Airline passengers travelling from Canada to the United States will face a new battery of enhanced security measures now required by the U.S Department of Homeland Security.

The changes prompted Air Canada and WestJet to issue an advisory to passengers. The travel advisory recommends:

• If your flight is scheduled before 10 a.m., you’re asked to arrive at the airport at least three hours early;
• If your flight is after 10 a.m., you’re asked to arrive at the airport at least two hours early;
• Electronics should be fully charged for possible inspection;
• Any device larger than a smartphone should be removed from its protective case or covering for possible inspection;
• WestJet advises passengers to arrive at their departure gate at least 45 minutes early.

Similar enhanced screening measures are being implemented for all U.S. bound flights in 105 countries around the world, affecting an estimated 325,000 passengers each day.

Click here to read more on this news!

The Home Depot Canada has a new FREE workshops available today! The Home Depot Canada today FREE workshops includes: Do-It-Herself Workshops – Tile Floors and Walls: Select, lay cut and grout tile.

Participants will learn how to install ceramic tile over backerboard on floors and walls.

The Home Depot Canada FREE workshops is valid today, Wednesday, July 19, 2017 – 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm.

To book your slot at a workshop, contact your local Home Depot location.

Click here to get all Home Depot Canada online offers.

Click here to view The Home Depot flyers

This is rather exciting news for those self-professed caffeine addicts who get their Starbucks coffee fix online, in-store and at local grocery stores as now you can collect Starbucks Rewards Stars at all three locations. That’s right. You heard correctly. Whenever you purchase a Starbucks Ready-to-Drink bottled beverage or select boxes of Starbucks K-Cup packs, you can collect between 2 to 25 stars for your Rewards!

The qualifying products for this offer will be on Starbucks K-cups (10, 24, and 54 count boxes) and on Ready-To-Drink bottled beverages (single servings only, 4-packs have yet to be inducted into this offer) for Doubleshot Energy Coffee and Frappuccino chilled coffee drink.

To receive the extra stars from these grocery store purchases, the process is rather simple:

• first, buy the qualifying products and save the receipts
• second, sign-in to your Starbucks Rewards account
• and lastly, upload the receipt of your purchase of qualifying product

It will take about three days for the stars to be added to your account once approved, and you will have 60 days from your purchase to upload them into your account.

Click here to learn more about the new stars program for Starbucks grocery store purchases.

Click here to shop online at Starbucks Store Canada.

A Canada-wide recall on several General Mills Canada Corporation products, namely Yoplait Minigo and Liberte yogurt, has been issued due to the potential presence of pieces of plastic. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) issued the recall on the following products:

Click here for more information on this recall.

It may not be the same worn and yellowed subway tile look that Subway Canada fans have come to be familiar with over the past 20 years, but the restaurant chain, which has long championed itself as being the “fresher” option for fast food, has decided it’s time for a change and announced on Monday that they would be unveiling a sleeker and more modern look to their retail stores.

To really drive home their “fresher image”, Subway is going to begin displaying their uncut vegetables at the front of the store. Though many customers were and still are unaware, Subway has always cut their vegetables fresh in-store.

Another new feature of Subway’s facelift is going to be the digital aspect, as they will be adding self-order kiosks to the stores so that customers can quickly and efficiently place their order or pick-up their order in a designated pre-order pick up location. You will also, as always, be able to pay for your orders with Apple and Samsung Pay options.

There are currently 12 pilot locations that have been launched across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. You can find these remodelled Subway venues at the following locations:

• Tamarac, Florida
• Orlando, Florida
• Winter Park, Florida
• Chula Vista, California
• Knoxville, Tennessee
• Palmview, Texas
• Hillsboro, Oregon
• Vancouver, Washington
• Beauport, Quebec
• Granby, Quebec
• and Manchester, U.K.

Click here to take the virtual tour of the new look for Subway restaurants.

Shutterfly Canada has new promotions available now! The Shutterfly offers include:

• Get unlimited FREE prints 4×6 and 4×4 sizes, exclusively on the Shutterfly app. Shutterfly is giving away 3 MILLION 4×4 and 4×6 prints in batches of 100 with code 3MIL, while supplies last.
• Save 40% off everything, valid until Wednesday, July 19, 2017.
• Save 50% off Hardcover Photo Books , valid until Wednesday, July 19, 2017.

Click here to get Shutterfly online offers.