Alternatives I Have Personally Tried And Liked
In Person Groceries > Basically anywhere but Walmart. Look for "Product of Canada" on packaging. "Made in Canada" is 2nd best. If the company is Canadian that is the 3rd best. For produce with no packaging ask someone at the store.
Ordering Groceries > Voila if you're not in BC, Save-On-Foods if you are in BC. I use Voila and it even has a shop Canadian tab.
Amazon > Home Hardware, Princess Auto, KMS Tools, BMR, and Lee Valley for in person shopping. If you're going to order online use the Canadian Tire App.
Google Drive > Sync. If anyone uses someone's referral code they both get 1 extra GB so here's mine. https://www.sync.com/?_sync_refer=181a30ae0
X > Mastadon / Bluesky
Netflix and Prime > Crave and CBC Gem
Disney Plus > Ahoy Matey, Sail the Seas
Uber Eats > Skip the Dishes
Burger King / Mcdonalds > Any of these companies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_restaurant_chains
Starbucks / Mcdonalds Coffee > A local cafe or second Cup. Tim Hortons is owned by an American company.
Subway > Mr Sub
Shop local for clothes and shoes (but if you're tall like me, there is much more work to do to find tall clothes online).
What I'm Trying Next
Youtube Premium for my Smart TV > https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube (for PC just use Firefox with ublock origins)
Play Books For Audio Books > Libby with a library card
Amazon > https://www.singingpebblebooks.ca/ for physical books
Diary Queen > A local ice cream parlour. I have one down the street from me I might try.
Google Docs > https://etherpad.org/
Take a look at selfhosting and a wireguard VPN. My whole digital life is local and the backups are encrypted before being uploaded to filen.io and box (lifetime 100Gb free). Photos and memories are backed up onto external drives and I hand them to my brother for safe keeping.
Backups are mandatory and a good system helps.
I have thought about it many times I have. I do prefer having my home backup, then off site back up I pay for so if something goes wrong I know who to yell at. I do need to think up a hard drive option though.