VIDEO: Tiny Tim Hortons Tik Tok hoax filmed in Brampton

Published December 28, 2022 at 1:52 pm

A Peel Regional Police officer stands outside the mock Tim Hortons at the Peel Children's Safety Village in Brampton.

A viral video of “the smallest Tim Hortons in Nunavut” has users on social media crying foul, because the tiny Timmys is actually right here in Brampton.

“I think I found the world-record smallest Tim Hortons in Canada,” Tik Tok user Luxopiashop says in a video uploaded in November which shows what appears to be a tiny Tim Hortons on a residential street.

With a banner of “the smallest Tim Hortons in Nunavut,” the user invites viewers to guess where the Tim Hortons is and has received over 600,000 views and more than 50,000 likes on Tik Tok.

But eagle-eyed viewers were quick to point out that the so-called smallest Tim Hortons in Nunavut is actually in Brampton, and isn’t even an actual coffee shop at all.

The Tim Hortons in the video is actually part of Brampton’s Peel Children’s Safety Village – an educational centre run by Peel Regional Police for students to practise safety rules they have learned at school and at home.

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“Looks like Safety Village…I’m a teacher I’ve taken my class here before,” one user wrote. “That’s a children’s safety village. Nunavut is in the GTA now,” wrote another.

A Peel Regional Police spokesperson confirmed to Insauga that the tiny Tims is the same one at the Peel Children’s Safety Village.

Despite the call outs, the user defended their claim in the video comments saying the video was filmed in “downtown Nunavut.” Insauga reached out to Luxopiashop for comment but the request was not returned.

A post on the Peel Regional Police Twitter account from back in 2017 shows the same mock Tim Hortons, train crossing arm and other small buildings seen in the Tik Tok video.

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