Buy Canadian

I went into my local Giant Tiger and they only have coffee mate(which sucks now since they changed recipes) is there any Canadian brands for powder coffee Whitener?

Ever since we baked our first sprouted loaf over 30 years ago, Silver Hills Bakery breads have been proudly made in Canada. Today, every loaf starts with whole grains grown by Canadian farmers that we sprout, bake, pack, and ship from our family-owned bakery in Abbotsford, BC.

TSN is a Canadian company owned by Bell while Sportsnet is owned by Rogers, both of which are Canadian companies.

For any thinking "I'm not buying anything, the app is free!" Yes, the apps are free, we are the product and more app users = more profit.

(Admittedly, ESPN has a 30% stake in the parent company.)

ESPN is owned by Disney, TheScore was Canadian but was recently bought by an American company.

Donald wants us isolated, each country standing up to a giant by ourselves. And for some products, there aren't going to be affordable Canadian substitutes. But, if we look around the globe, maybe there are more?

I couldn't help but think this after so many kind folks pointed me to Deezer and other Tidal alternatives that aren't Canadian but at least aren't American owned. Personally, my preferences are Canada first, anywhere else non American second, and then ugh... I imagine others feel similar?

I was about to pull the trigger and buy a System 76 Pangolin when the trade BS started. As far as I can tell, there are no Canadian manufacturers (or repackagers like System 76), so I'm looking for suggestions. My preference would be Canadian, but happy to consider anything non-US.

I prefer to buy hardware that can last - my phone is nearly 10 years old, and my tower PC is almost 20, with various upgrades over time. I know that laptops aren't as good for upgrades, but some sturdiness, and non-soldered RAM would be appreciated.

I'm looking for a 15"/16" laptop that plays well with Linux (I like Pop!OS, but fine to migrate) it would be primarily for office stuff, but with decent enough iGPU that I can do basic graphic work, and play some indy games. I'd like something that generally doesn't sound like a helicopter when I use it. 1-2Tb SDD, and 32 GB RAM. ~$2500 CAD is my max.

I looked at Lenovo, but they're getting expensive, and I'm not sure whether they go through the US prior to hitting Canada or not.

Thanks in advance!

I spent last night putting together this tool. You can try it out here: https://isitcanadian.cynber.dev/product-search

Some barcodes that you can try with:

• 0673513001507
• 0013000052528

It lets you search for a product by the barcode, and then using the Open Food Facts database, it will tell you where the product is from (origin of ingredients, location of manufacturing / processing, and where it is sold). You can then search for Canadian alternatives.

It uses the categories of the item to search for similar items in the database, and filters out items that aren't Canadian in at least one of the ways above. You can further filter by those categories or by origin and manufacturing / processing location.

I chose Open Food Facts because it is an existing open source initiative, run by a non-profit, and already has lots of data. When a product is missing or incorrect, you can contribute it with their mobile app. This has the added benefit of improving the data for everyone, and there's a lot more there than just the country of origin.

Some things I'd like to do:

• Ability to search by name, not just barcode
• Ability to scan a barcode instead of typing it in / pasting it
• Gather articles and compilations from community members since the search alone would be tedious
• Go through the mess I made of the code while trying to do it all in one night

I hope it's helpful, and I'd love to hear feedback. It's open source so if you want to contribute, you can find the code here: https://github.com/cynber/is-it-canadian

I'll be back again tonight to respond to comments and feedback. Thanks you!

Should Canadians sell their US stocks to stand against the trade war?

That's all. I really love 1Password though, I don't think I've ever had any issues with them and their Linux support is excellent.

I learned that Tailscale is Canadian after learning that CloudFlare indiscriminately routes your server traffic through the US, including CloudFlare Tunnel traffic.

Any Canadian resources for learning the language?

Fairly similar to madeinca.ca, except they also notably filter by province and have fairly more specific categories.

When Neil Young asked us to switch to Tidal, I went along and loved that it paid the artists 10x more per stream.

But Tidal is American owned, spotify isn't...

I'm struggling on this one, a lot of the lil punk bands I love could really use the revenue but, y'know, trade war etc.

Anyone have any thoughts to assuage a guilty conscience on this one?

I need a small one to stow some things away.

Here's a list of my favourite Made In Canada vendors that sell women's clothes. Please add your own!

• Birds of North America - Sizing to a 3XL or 20
• Brok Boys - Sizing to a 3XL or 20
• Central Standard - Sizing to a 2XL
• Harley Jae - Sizing to a 2/3XL
• Leka - Sizing to an XL
• Lights of All - Sizing to a 3XL, customization options
• Lustre - Sizing to a 4XL or 24, customization options
• Rightful Owner - Sizing to a 2XL
• Smash + Tess - Sizing to a 4XL
• Supayana - Sizing to a 3XL, customization options
• Ursa Minor - Sizing mostly to an XL, but there are some 2XL options

I also shop at Victoire Boutique in Ottawa quite a bit, and they've curated a wonderful list of Canadian designers.

Looking to migrate my domains, email and webhosting homward.

I love opalstack but they arent Canadian.

Also looking to replace Onedrive with Nextcloud. Need 1TB to start.

Who all do you like?

Shoes and boots are one of the few items where you have a ton of made in Canada options.

I've gotten pairs from a few different brands and the stand out value is the WM. Moorby line by Canada West. My set haave been durable, and look as good as boots I've bought at twice the price. They aren't cheap ($300+) but they can be resoled so they should last roughly forever.

Many people think of A&W as an American chain, but they have been separate companies for many decades. More to the point, they have been an actual Canadian company since 1995.

I’m wearing my first pair of Bucks boots right now. Great hand made alternative to the Blundstones I’ve been wearing at work for years. A tiny bit cheaper too.

After Tim Cook donated $1 million to Donald Trump the one whose threatened tariffs and the territory sovereignty of Canada, the recent dealings with Starlink to improve satellite connectivity, the plans to bring back Apple ads to Twitter. All this behaviour from his company is unacceptable.

We need to contact our mps and call on them to table legislation that would force Apple to open up sideloading like how they have done in the European Union. You can find your mp's information here and remember letters to parliament do not require stamps. It's our hardware we bought, we have the right to do with it as we please. We need to open up the phones, tablets and watches.

So that we can have our canadian open-source app store alternative. Where we can support our local talented developers without Apple siphoning off the software sales.

They have great documentaries, movies and tv series such as North of North.

The more that people use their services the more funding they can can receive from the federal government to expand their programming lineup.

It looks like they specifically have a grocery store guide, with various products made in Canada.
They also accept user submissions FWIW.

Hey all,

I figured I'd make this post since I was recently looking at the peanut butter section of the store, and every single brand save for Kraft was imported from the US. Kraft, however, likely uses peanuts imported from the US and processes them into peanut butter here in Canada, which allows them to label their peanut butter as a product of Canada.

Peanuts are apparently hardly grown in Canada because of the climate, so importing them from down south makes sense in that regard. However, if you want to find options that source from Canadian farms, Nuts To You Nut Butter makes Sunflower and Pumpkin seed butters that source their seeds from farms in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario exclusively. Just be sure that it says "grown in Canada" on the label since while the sunflower seed butter I bought states that on the label, the pumpkin seed butter I saw didn't have the label like it does on their website, so it might be a recent change they've made. Just gave the sunflower seed butter a try today and it's genuinely incredible.

I was curious as to what brands of nut butters you all know that are made in Canada since peanut butter is such a big part of a lot of people's diets. Would love to see what y'all have to share!