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Last trip to the grocery store I couldn't find any non-US salad kits, and Silk NextMilk is made down there now, because I guess our plants were the listeria ones. Chip dip was surprisingly hard to find too, although I did it.

I'm very pleased with how many vegetables actually come from Mexico (definitely via the US though), and there's even a few things you can get from greenhouses, so that situation is less dire than I'd expected.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Had to buy Corn Starch from Austrian company. Because the Fleichmann's CANADA brand corn starch is Made in USA. And could actually find a Canadian Manufacturer

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[–] deege@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Finding a cloud service provider that’s reliable and has good terraform support has been impossible. Best we could do there was switch to another American firm that didn’t seem to be a Trump-supporting sell-out.

Otherwise it’s been pretty easy. But mostly because we already had everything.

As a baseline my focus hasn’t been so much not buying American at all but buying from Canadian owned and operated stores as the primary entry point. So no more Amazon, etc.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's the next frontier for me. AliExpress looks very promising, and I'm going to bug other people I know about degoogling as well now. Streaming is a bigger question, because I'm not sure I can sell piracy, I never really watch TV alone, and while we do a lot of CBC we still need to supplement with Netflix, as of now.

I'm not sure if I should care about the ownership of brick and morter stores, except Walmart, because they're all personally (edit: majority) owned by the Walton family. Even if like Costco the profits go to the US, they have shareholders all over the world, and obviously the store itself is in Canada.

[–] Devanismyname@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's impossible to do a full boycott. There's gonna be some stuff you end up getting.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Yes, I've bought two items to date from the US, due to lack of alternatives.

Considering how much stuff I've bought, though, that's pretty damn close, and it wasn't even hard.

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[–] Excentrifugal_Forz@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

I was already bracing myself to be careful at the grocery store a while back cause I'd been following the story of the US rolling back food and product regulations. It can't be fun to be doing any Kitchen/ Restaurant work right now. Last time out I managed to find all Canadian stuff. Lettuce was the hardest, self contained was all from California. I did find a Canadian made salad kit I stripped for parts, I wish the quality was better but it was okay. I'm not a real power user of lettuce anyway. It's just going to take a bit of adapting.

I also typically buy used name brand clothing and plan to keep going with that and with entertainment I usually use the free services, used stores and thrifts and a bit of yarr matey on the side.

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