morbidcactus

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[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wikipedia still lists their head office in Toronto, at least Rakuten is Japanese if that makes it any better?

AFAIK they're still one of the better (if not least worst) ereader options, calibre works great with them and they tie into the eBook platform used by pretty much every library I have a card with (go check your library, there's card sharing between some of them and some cities will give you a card for working there, our libraries are a treasured resource).

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It definitely depends the beer, La Fin du Monde (fitting name) used to have an entire section for aging that I found on the archive, 2-5 years at 12.5c, 9% so helps it that way. They're (Unibroue) owned by Sleeman who is owned by Sapporo, based in Québec, recall a lot of their beer being quite decent.

Edit: Site still has aging info but it's more of a general guide over beer specific

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If hot cereal is your thing, apparently Red River Cereal is Canadian again, was bought by Smucker's a while back. I liked it but I like cream of wheat and flax.

They have a bunch of others too, just red river's the classic

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

They had a really decent boxing day sale and I splurged a bit, do the same. Came across their woodfill pla through one of the others I linked, spool3d, was pretty happy with it, glad I checked out their other stuff.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Thanks! Prusa dealer in Canada is a good resource, duties and shipping on my mk3s sucked.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

I can't say I do but would be willing to take a risk with those prices, $21 cad for a spool of abs and $22 for petg is super reasonable IMO.

 

I was joking about a Trudeau/Brazeau charity match against Trump/Musk the other day.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You reminded me about Canadian Filaments, used their carbon capture petg and pla before, prints well but does like a slightly larger nozzle. They're out of Edmonton I think.

Very happy to have multiple sources in Canada for filament if only for shipping, importing prusament is brutally expensive the one time I did that. Thanks for the recommendations.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

3dprintingcanada is the closest to me, been meaning to look at them, thanks for the recommendations!

 

Figured I'd contribute with resources I've used and found really solid, not everything is made in Canada but all are Canadian businesses with fantastic customer service.

Filament

  • Matter3D Langford BC based manufacturer, they make some solid quality filament and promote themselves as engineering grade material. Their abs has low odor, petg prints really well, haven't tried their nylon yet but I have a few spools to work with. Their prices are extremely reasonable and they have regular sales, my go to supplier

Parts, kits, etc.

  • Spool3D Calgary AB based store, Canada wide through canpost for free over $140. I live in Ontario, but most of my purchases are from them, solid selection of material, parts and accessories. My voron was sourced with parts 90% from here, they also have solid filament, sell garolite sheets too for a build surface (trying to move away from using builtak, they're a solid product but I won't be buying American for the foreseeable future)
  • 3d lab tech another in Calgary, the other 10% of my voron came from here. Lots of kits and high quality parts, highly recommend, extremely responsive too and they constantly have new, interesting stuff.
  • Sparta 3D Brampton Ontario based, again, lots of kits and high quality parts, have quality filter carbon as well if you're looking for a good Canadian supplier of acid-free material. They have filament as well, haven't had an opportunity to use it yet however.
  • Makerparts they're moving so unfortunately site looks to be closed for now, BC based, they're all sorts of maker related stuff, not just printing. I bought a bear mod kit for my prusa from them, again, solid product and great to work with.
[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I know you said power tools, semi related there are Canadian hand tools, Gray Tools, recall them being solid. You have Veritas tools as well for woodworking.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

He's usually coherent when he does his Tim's product placement bits

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

The lcbo is one of the largest liquor purchasers on the planet, brings in $2.5 billion as of last year to the Ontario government.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Oh for sure, there's exceptions to the rule, I've been fooled too. Peste Noir, Drudkh, Deathspell Omega, Burzum all end up on essentials lists, definitely contributes.

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