OAKVILLE Ontario Bakery-café chain Tim Hortons apologized Monday for agreeing to sponsor an event it later discovered was produced by a conservative group seeking to block same-sex marriage.Tim Hortons dropped out of the event, to be held Aug. 16 in Providence, R.I., and said in a statement that the “event organizer and purpose of the event fall outside of our sponsorship guidelines” because the chain does not sponsor “religious groups, political affiliates or lobby groups.”“Tim Hortons and ...
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