I don’t buy Canadian per se, I just don’t buy anything from the United States or Israel.
To me it’s a life long thing. Don’t threaten my country.
I do privilege Canadian products but my philosophy has been more, “Don’t buy American.”
The Eastern European and the Middle Eastern grocery / deli stores (among others) are magical places.
I discovered a little shop that sells normal convenience store items but also some incredibly delicious middle eastern delicacies. Some are imported spices and herbs that are hard to find elsewhere. It’s been fun trying new recipes to learn a few basic middle eastern dishes I have never made myself before. I wouldn’t have found this hidden gem if I hadn’t been purposefully seeking non-american variety in my grocery options.
all the virtue signalers, don’t give up their American streaming platforms, or American movies do they. A bit hypocritical. Oh, I don’t buy one bag of carrots for 3 bux but I’ll spend hundreds supporting American media.
I dropped all US streamers, and switched to CBC Gem and Brit Box. Plus the high seas, of course.
This show is hilarious. https://gem.cbc.ca/catastrophe
They can’t even bother to keep the content sharing alive. I haven’t heard a fucking peep about this since the week this happened.
imagine being alive in an era where you have access to a literal information sharing device. A massive force multiplier. Knowing full well everybody else is using it to attack you. Yet deciding the best course of action is to just not buy carrots and standing in streets like you’re fighting some good fight
Meanwhile I see this stuff everyday. What is the left fucking doing. They’re stuck in the 1960s
Go ahead and downvote. That’s the extent of effort you’re barely willing to put into any of this while someone’s uncle made this photo and shared it on 30 different groups across multiple social media
My partner and I haven’t stopped or slowed down. If anything, as more time passes we replace more and more staples and services with Canadian or, at the very least, not American.
For example, when it all kicked off, we had some subscriptions still going (usually pay for a year at a time). It took us time for those to run out and switch to alternatives, but we did.
Over time, we’ve learnt to live without certain products that were staples for us before. We weaned off things as we found replacements or just made do without.
Still not at 100% but we’re getting there. Doing our part.
I’m still doing my part! And will continue to do so forever.
The tricky part is when a company used to be Canadian, or looks Canadian, but is not a product of canada nor owned by Canada.
The product might just be “made in” or “prepared in” Canada, and on top of that not being owned by Canada anymore because of being bought out.
Tim Hortons and Canadian Tire.
Tim Hortons pimps that “we are your national identity” shit so hard while using imported labour to sell substandard product at an inflated price.
Canadian Tire is still a Canadian company but the products sure aren’t. The time their inventory spends on the shelf is just a layover between a sweat shop and a landfill.
Canadian Tire is like a dollarstore now.
People should skip all fast food chains unless their locally owned.
Canadian Tire has a Paderno cookware manufatoring plant in PEI. There is also https://meyercanada.ca/ if people want to avoid CT. Their Frank chips might be made in Canada. But you’re right, most of it isn’t. But still better than say Walmart which is not Canadian owned to begin with.
Or the famous “Designed in Canada”. I hate that
Yes, they don’t make it easy.
It is still worth the effort to read labels and use some of the available apps while shopping.
Alsi, foreign owned but made in Canada is still better than made in USA, if that is the only choice you are faced with.
Yes, they don’t make it easy.
100% on purpose, then the same companies push for “personal responsibility” and “vote with your wallet” movements, instead of real regulation, knowing full well they can misinform us into doing whatever they want
The US folded a winning hand, not the least of which was our relationship with Canada.
I’ll never forgive MAGA.
I won’t forgive the US for allowing MAGA to win until they have a full on democratic socialist president. So, unlikely in my lifetime.
Damn right it is!
I’m Cascadian and I still buy Canadian when I can, and I don’t even live there.
As a Canadian who doesn’t buy American if I can help it, I don’t feel bad subscribing to Mother Jones and Skeptical Raptor. They are Americans fighting the current ills of America, which can only help me.
Costco told Fat Joffrey to GFY with his “anti-DEI” foolishness, which is why I don’t feel bad maintaining my membership there.
Another good example of supporting those who buck the trends.
Not with media, they still are fully committed to buying american tv, movies, streaming platforms, and songs.
I have moved back to the high seas for media.
Makes sense; a lot of our media is owned or otherwise influenced by the Americans.
I’ve been augmenting my music collection with local artists lately.
https://www.manitobamusic.com/songoftheweek
I assume most provinces have a similar resource.
