🇺🇸 It's been a month of politics. In the US, I wonder who is running the country... Apparently, the DOGE boys are getting into computers! Sadly, they are programmers, not Forensic Accountants, who may have a chance in determining where Dump can cut costs in order to give oligarchs tax breaks.
🇨🇦 All of us know what is going on in the US. Canadians are sticking together. This is a unifying force for us. The provincial and territorial leaders are talking with our Prime Minister, and while it is easier to truck goods back and forth between northern US states and Canada, we're going to make this work. It is a 5000+ km border between Canada and the US.
Snowbirds are selling their Florida homes. People are changing their holiday plans from US destinations to alternative locations.
Is this Canadian? is a new AI app, created in Quebec. Canadians are scouring labels for Made in Canada.
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| Is this Canadian? |
Websites are popping up to source out Canadian goods, i.e., buytheleaf.ca .
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Many are sourcing Canadian goods and providing options. Made in Belleville.
A pair of Edmonton entrepreneurs, Matthew Suddaby and William Boytinck, have created an app called Shop Canadian to help with just that.
There are options, with the difference between using Canadian ingredients, vs. bottled in Canada, using national sources.
This is really deceitful. You need your reading glasses to determine that this states "Designed in Canada," but is made in the USA.
Also... CBC is reporting that some grocers are putting flags on Canadian products. That is helpful.
There are some foods we simply won't buy fresh these days. A lot of produce comes from the US. With flash freeze technology, frozen foods will be the best choice. Apparently, 75% of our salad dressing comes from the US. We can change that.
Joe has been buying wonderful soup. From Spain! No more USA produced Campbell's Soups for us.
We've a winter storm watch for Wednesday/Thursday. Perhaps 20 - 30 cm.
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Well, if it helps, we don't know what's going on either, but we don't like it in any event. I'm planning to come to Canada in early March and shop for Canada-only products while I'm there (except at the used book store). I want a Canada sweatshirt, among other things. And Nanaimo bars!
Ah, now you're getting to do the locally made thing. I have been looking around for made-in-the-US labels rather than China, for years. It's good to see so many Canadian products are available! I am happy that you're doing that, as well as that Canadian pride might be rising for the political picture. You look so good snowblowing...a great video.
Our local NoFrills store manager is putting red dots on the edge of the shelves where products are Canadian. Most of us aren't able to read the small print on labels and she knows how to help. We are big on scratch cooking and eating in season in our household which is a big bonus in these trying times. I'm still finding it hard to find out where some of our non food items originate. Eg. Some Sunlight laundry detergent is Canadian, but not all. The yellow bottled stuff at NoFrills says Canadian so I might give that a try.
I was horrified to discover that the unsweetened soy milk I've been buying for years is made in the U.S.A. From now on, I'll buy locally grown organic soy beans and make my own soy milk. It's about time us Canucks woke up and pull together!
I forgot to add, I bought a selection of Sprague veg. a few weeks back. I love the creamed corn.
I bought an Aeropress coffee maker. Then I needed a new filter to make espresso better than the standard filter. All was made in USA, I had no choice, as the original purchase was made before all this started. However I will be looking very carefully at anything and everything I buy from now on. Good news that people are starting to move from US back, sell their holiday homes, buy Canadian fuel and all else. I love Maple Syrup, and from now on will be sure to check where it is bottled. Roll out the leaf stickers.
It takes a bit longer to shop but it is worth it in the long run.
Such a fragile democracy down there. We will carry on.
We are in for many changes.
Hello,
I am all for buy local! As far as our country, things are scary. Take care, have a wonderful day!
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