Now if buying Canadian meant having better options. Crave is the only Canadian streaming platform I know of and on top of giving money to Bell, it’s… not great.
So for the folks that are concerned about not having good Canadian streaming services, there IS an alternative me hearties! Yaarrrr!
CBC Gem is an excellent addition to Canadian streaming options.
really is!
cant see GEM in Australia. Geo blocked
Eh. Personally I only ever consistently watched CBC for Hockey Night in Canada, and they kinda lost that.
It’s back, covering the PWHL!
Which is badass. Its a different game, not saying better or worse, just different. Very fun to watch live too.
Which might be the only reason I check them out again. Are they doing it on the radio too? That would be useful for me if I ever decide to attend a Charge game in-person. Not a cable subscriber and last I checked YouTube was blacked out if you’re in Canada so I haven’t checked them out as much as I’d like to. Might fix that.
If there’s not a Canadian streaming option, there’s always piracy. I’m not so much doing “Buy Canadian” as I am doing “Buy Not American” or not buy at all.
CBC Gem for what it has, piracy for the rest.
This is the Maple way
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Canada: Removes US liquor from shelf
US: 🤡😭😡🖕🏼
US: Bans Canadian liquor
Canada: ok 🤷🏼♀️
Our stuff is better anyway, so I’ll just keep buying Canadian… Or anything that ISN’T from the US. Simple, easy choice, really.
This, twice. Give me Crown over Jack any day.
The USA has been fucking us over for decades not just since they elected their god emperor. There is greenhouse produce available all year and frozen for the few times it is not.
Yup, which is why we should have been diversifying decades ago. Kudos to Carney for doing it now, but like… this really shouldn’t be the conversation in 2026.
Let’s keep it up lads.
Yet Walmart is still raking in the $$$…
I mean, sometimes cheapest wins. As long as what you’re walking out with is Canadian or at least not American. Personally my other options are Loblaws and Metro, and between the three of them milk is usually cheaper at Walmart, just as an example. And yes, I buy a Canadian brand.
“Fun” fact: Walmart has/had an entire business strategy that boils down to:
- Enter new market,
- Undercut new market, using established stores to support the new one,
- Pay employees poorly so that they can’t afford established businesses even if they wanted to,
- Drive out local businesses/any competition at all,
- Jack up prices so store can be successful.
Buying cheap from Walmart is not a good idea.
Neither is getting ripped off by Loblaws.
I was always looking for Canadian. Especially in terms of groceries (produce, meat etc). Now I just have another reason. Canadian or at least non American and that’s probably for life.
I found this some days ago, not sure how viable this might be over time, but having this on products to make it easier to identify their origin might help consumers prioritize products made in Canada with Canadian ingredients
Very annoying that local produce is more expensive than US ones. Strawberries, blueberries, etc.
Thats because they have lower food safety and labour standards down there…
Do you want cheaper blueberries or blueberries uncontaminated by E. coli and Cyclosporiasis?
Most centrists gave up on the loblaws boycott after a month.
I doubt most Canadians are boycotting u.s goods.
I doubt most Canadians are boycotting u.s goods
Your doubts don’t match my experience. I still see people in stores reading labels and putting things back if they say "made in USA ".
We totally are.
All depends what they’re buying. If you drink Coke or Pepsi, for example, that would be an American brand made and/or bottled in Canada. And this is why this whole trade war thing is dumb.
Also:
Most centrists gave up on the loblaws boycott after a month.
I didn’t even know there was a Loblaws boycott. I only shop there if I have no other option.
We just gave up purchasing stuff that was like that. A little pain now to send a message to the USA is worth it . they keep crabbing about us and their sales so it must be working.
