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[–] [email protected] 2 points 51 minutes ago

Cool to see some brands I already use on here. Speaking of, I kinda thought everyone used Sun-Rype for their juice anyway. I mean, I am biased as I've been by their HQ multiple times so it just feels natural to buy their brand, but still.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

Tim Hortons is about as uncanadian as Starbucks, they're owned by RBI, which is owned by 3Com, a Brazilian food conglomerate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago) (2 children)

This list is the equivalent of French's "proudly made in Canada" Ketchup response to the Heinz boycott from a couple years back when they've decided to close their Ontario factory. French's still being just another US company, that did not close it's Canadian plants at the time.

Also it's full of shit products and seems to push galen's stuff mostly, when there's so many smaller, local alternatives.

Many American brands I've never even heard of. And Nestlé is Swiss, not from the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

Nestle deserves to be boycotted for so many reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 33 minutes ago

Absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

Please provide a list then.

Seriously. I understand you waving the flag pointing out the lowblaw connection (I noticed it too and I haven't shopped at lowblaw or their counterparts more than a dozen times in the last 2 years), but people need alternatives.

Even ONE option would be helpful, otherwise you are just making this shit seem even more hopeless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 33 minutes ago

How can I provide you a list of local products specific to your area? I live in the more French part of Montreal, Le Plateau, and everything is full of products from France and Quebec. Highly irrelevant to what you likely have in say Toronto.

I used to live in the Junction and would frequent three non-galen stores in the area (a local butcher, Sweet Potato and Stari Grad) and never encountered either the listed US or Canadian brands, unless I had to go to the no frills in the area for cheap TP.

This list is simply stupid. It's an infatuation with big consumer brands and outdated products. Very typical of North America.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

as an aussie, this is all so fucked up… we have basically nothing here that’s canadian, but i’m certainly switching all my shopping and services away from US brands in solidarity (RIP vegemite :p)

global solidarity against the fucking bully

at the very least, anyone could be next… but even without that somewhat selfish take, canadians don’t deserve any of this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Is Vegemite American made? Wow. My SO is Australian and his family would bring him some when they visited. We can only get Marmite here.

This isn't going to be easy but the orange rapist doesn't seem to comprehend that we can hit them where they live.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

it’s owned by kraft yeah; i remember a big thing about it being sold in the 90s

we also have marmite, and another one that AFAIK is still aussie called promite (just skip the thermite for eating; that’s different)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 40 minutes ago

Crikey that Thermite can be spicy!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Seeing all these American companies earnings go down next report would be glorious.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

I hope you can vote in 2028

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Probably already mentioned, but afaik Tim Hortons is American now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Last I checked, Tim Horton's is owned by Restaurant Brands International, which came to be as a merger between Tim Horton's and Burger King. They are headquartered in Toronto. Their majority shareholder is a Brazilian investment company though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Dawson's, Piri Piri by PC, No Name hot sauce

In solidarity with Mexico I might just stick with El Yucateco.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I buy el yucateco because it tastes better. If America wants me to buy hot sauce made here they need to learn how to make it taste good.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You've pointed out an aspect of this that has escaped too many. You don't fight nationalism with more nationalism. This trade war can only result in stronger trade partnerships with other nations.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago

I work at a pet food manufacturer in Wisconsin, and we sell our products in Canada. We've been fielding lots of questions and feedback contacts from our Canadian customers saying they won't feed our products anymore. I get it, and I'm in full support of anyone who boycotts us. In my department, both of the people I report to are right wing, Trump-voting idiots who didn't think about how this affects us directly.

This makes my job harder, but hit us where it hurts. I will sit back and laugh as the leopards eat their faces. I truly hope the company as a whole survives as is, but I am prepared if we don't. Fuck around and find out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Yay for Canada! All of those US brands, not one in my home. You’ll be better off without them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

I've been pleasantly surprised at how Canadian my stuff already is. It makes sense, I guess - shipping costs something, and I look for deals.

The really hard thing will be fresh, perishable goods, so I've spent the last several years moving onto all-pantry recipes. Detergent is also weirdly American, although Tru Earth is Canadian.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Coca Cola is bad because… It’s owned by an American corporation, despite being bottled in Canada?

Why then are we suggested to buy Great Value? Is it because Walmart is an American corporation but it’s bottled in Canada?

I’ve seen this suggestion a few times before this post. Someone help it make sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

And even if a company's HQ is in America, their shareholders are probably all over. Personally I'll only worry a bout the physical supply chain.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Canada Dry isn't Canadian anymore. It was bought by an American company in 2008.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

I hate how deceptive names can be. You just think by default "oh this must be Canadian then". So much homework to figure out the truth with all these conglomerates

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Just went grocery shopping. It was actually easier to figure out what was made in the US than I expected. Pretty much everything was labeled with the origin and where they were imported from (if they were imported).

The other thing I learned is that the US cornered the junk food market lmao.

Also I did buy one item from the US which was broccoli. If someone finds broccoli not from the US let me know :D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

BioSteel was bought by a conspiracy theorist/Guru type last year that also owns Canadian Protein. For anyone that needs proof just lookup the owner and his social media.

PVL is probably a decent Canadian alternative.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Loblaws will continue to receive none of my money.

Fuck galen. Fuck Presidents choice anything.

They will probably raise their prices AGAIN in times of hardship to make hundred of millions more.

I will not eat their products.

I will eat the rich.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

There are more local options not from PC nor the US that OP didn't list, the most obvious one to me is frozen pizzas.

At least in Quebec, there are so many non-American frozen pizza brands I can't possibly list them all, two of them would be ILIOS and Como's.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I will shoplift their products though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

but not from a canadian-owned store

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

If Coke etc are canned in Canada do they get tariffs? The Canadian people deserve better than PC cola.

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