Food couriers on bikes in Toronto are facing serious safety hazards while on the job
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Food delivery is at an all-time high in Toronto, but the conditions in which bike couriers must deliver our food orders remain the same: stressful, unrealistic, and in some cases, terrifying.
On a regular day, it s treacherous snow-covered bike lanes or roads with no bike lanes at all.
A bad day might include verbal abuse from motorists who don t want to share the street, or getting doored while riding in the bicycle lane.
How this out-of-work yoga instructor opened a coffee shop
Unable to teach, this Toronto yoga instructor juggling immense debt opened pop-up coffee shop, Two Hot Babes, to stay afloat By Kelsey Adams
Samuel Engelking It s not fancy, it s dire. Nancy Silverman prepares pour over coffee at her COVID survival project, Two Hot Babes
All pandemic-long, people have pivoted and adapted their businesses to stay afloat. With Two Hot Babes, yoga instructor Nancy Silverman has taken it one step further. She’s moved into an entirely different industry.
Two Hot Babes is a COVID survival project. As the onset of the pandemic gutted the yoga industry and Silverman struggled to maintain her life in Toronto, she dreamed up the pop-up coffee shop.