Canadian coffee giant apologises after store owner pours bucket of water over sleeping homeless man and his dog

‘A Canadian coffee chain has been forced to apologise after a store manager poured a bucket of water over a homeless man and his dog outside one of its branches in Vancouver.

The central office for café giant Tim Hortons has issued a statement confirming the incident and giving a “sincere apology”, after workers from a nearby shop called on social media users to stop using the chain.

Arianne Summach wrote on Facebook and Twitter that she was “calling a boycott”, saying: “The manager of Tim Hortons on Robson and Richards literally just dumped a very large bucket of water all over a homeless man (and all his worldly belongings, cardboard bed included), for sitting out front of the shop.’

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