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https://lasvegassun.com/news/2018/jun/11/the-most-powerful-conservative-couple-youve-never/

They also support Alberta's UCP, led by Trump fangirl Danielle Smith.

Greg's is Canadian-owned. There are more alternatives at the bottom of https://refuseuline.com/

The central bank's GDPNow tracker of incoming metrics is indicating that gross domestic product is on pace to shrink by 1.5%.

I have s dilemma when it comes to some brands.

For example Kraft or Scott paper are American companies. That means any profits go to the U.S.

However, their products are manufactured in Canada with canadian resources. Therefore helping the local economy and creating jobs.

Should we buy from them or no?

I world lean towards no, because in the end it profits americans. Especially when there are local alternatives for things like peanut butter, Cheez Whiz, and it's not like mac n cheese is really that hard to make. There are also local paper brands. But I'm still worried this could end in job losses and have an impact on the economy.

EDIT: I should also add that we're still being screwed royally by Canadian corporations still, like our large grocery chains, telecom and others. I think it's still worth to boycott them. That means we really need to focus on the very local businesses. They may cost more, but I think in the end we're definitely all going to be winners from doing that.

Everyone and their dog has a Canadian coffee they love and post here it seems but I'd argue Jacked-Up Jill is the best one. Manitoba roasted and owned, supports women's initiatives in MB. The owner travelled to the places she sources her beans from and buys from co-ops, etc. She has been and usually is in direct contact with the sources of her beans so she can stand behind her product personally.

Not sure if this counts as the material is sourced from overseas but it's Winnipeg owned and operated. Their Luxe line is the most comfortable clothing I own. They also take part in social and local initiatives.

I have broad shoulders and I find their Luxe clothing just fits better than the cheap off the rack stuff. On the zip and the long-sleeve I did have to size up from an xl to xxl

Some Canadian owned companies that sell baby clothes and accessories online

Didn’t have many subscriptions (all US are cancelled) and was mostly eating Canadian food already. Swapping now what else is left … what now? I am so mad at the USA I need something else to take my anger out on.

So as we're all trying to cut America out of our lives at this instance, one of my soft spots is YouTube. I spend likely too much time there following different creators.

I know there are some peertube instances that exist, however looking through them they all seem very very specific to their niche. Does anyone know of a PeerTube instance that is both Canadian and 'General' content?

I hope avoiding Amazon fits this community rules?

I need a few bits to resurrect an old PC. My Amazon cart is $68 with shipping - we're going to cancel Prime, but my wife is still working on downloading all her photos. Best I can do elsewhere is near double this PLUS shipping from 3 different suppliers and 2 of the suppliers are on eBay, which is also a US company.

I moved to Canada a few years ago from Australia where I had pccasegear, scorptec and others. It seems Canadians have become reliant on the US market and Amazon and we now have no competitive local retailers for this type of thing?

Swear by it

Muskoka Roastery is also B Corp Certified.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39836813

Wikipedia: Kindred Credit Union.

KindredCU: About us.

We welcome all Ontarians who share our values and purpose to join us in working to impact the world in amazing ways.

Our founders purposefully chose the credit union model, a financial cooperative, to provide financial services that brought together those who could serve and those who were underserved. A cooperative is a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise that supports the common economic, social, and cultural needs of its members. We’re a business driven by our shared values that acts to build a better world through cooperation with other likeminded individuals and businesses.

Link to open an account.

Certifications

• B Corp Certified
• Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV)
• Certified Living Wage Employer
• Sustainable Waterloo Region Impact Network

Thanks to all the people who make lemmy now a realy good alternative! Thanks

They wanted a photo so I chose the first one in my photo library.

I have a blog, it is mostly for me to scream into the void, I would like to believe people read it I am however fine if they do not. Since the buy Canadian stuff started happening I moved where my hosting service was, away from Wordpress.com and to hosthero.com then I moved reannlegge.com to reannlegge.ca.

The actual blog has not yet been transferred yet but I now own reannlegge.ca!

I am moving away from my apple services and to another service, unfortunately no Canadian one offered the features I wanted, or at least none that I could find so that has been moved to a service outside of the US.

I'm looking for wool socks. Not like your grandma's (I have lots of those) but merino wool knee high socks. I dress a little differently than most men my age and I wear a lot of high socks for multiple reasons. Mostly to stay warm.

Any ideas?

This might be a long shot, but I'll ask anyway.

I used to go through shoes like crazy until I got two pairs of Saucony Excursion trail runners many years ago, and I still use them in rotation but need another pair that I can size up.

Are there any Canadian companies (even if they manufacturer oversea), who have anything like the Excursion? Durability is a top priority, and it has to be all synthetic (no leather). 😬

It is also a certified B Corp

Canada West is an internationally recognized brand out of Winnipeg that makes red-wing quality boots for a lower price. They already sell workboots in many stores around the country as well.

They have workboots, western boots, Chelsea boots, and some very nice dress boots as well!

Tough Duck is a Canadian company based out of Winnipeg.

Unpopular opinion, but Carhartts have the most inaccurate, wildly inconsistent sizing out of possibly any clothing company. The same size of the same model between two different pairs of Carhartt pants can be either way too big or way too small.

For bonus points, ask your local stores to start stocking Tough Duck.

I just found this community on Lemmy! Yay! I have been posting a bunch of #BuyCanadian on Mastodon so far. I’ll start posting here as well.

Here is one of my previous posts that I think isn’t discussed much yet. Canadian appliances are a thing. Danby and Salton have small kitchen appliances but there is at least also this:

I am really intrigued by this Canadian appliance brand. I heard Costco sells them too. Does anybody have one of their ranges or fridges? https://uniqueappliances.com/collections/

Just a heads-up, while many of the stuff they sell are actual products of Canada (i.e. grown here, too), a lot of them are only packaged in Canada. They do list the country of origin, so you can easily buy NotAmerican ™️

It's a union store too, which is awesome.