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Cancelled my Netflix and prime and subbed to CBC gem.
One big problem with our country is that our own identity and culture has been eroded by American pop culture. It’s honestly good to get away from American media and focus on Canadian made content otherwise we our identity and culture just blends into American culture and I hate that.
It's tragic too when there is so much Canadian media that gets overshadowed as a result. I've been picking up Orphan Black again which is a fantastic series, but too many Americans have never heard of it.
My wife loved orphan black! I didn't know it was Canadian. We both loved Kim's convenience. And Kenny vs Spenny is an all time great.
Kim's Convenience was an awesome show, until that last season... but yeah, definitely worth emphasizing Canadian gems like these.
Canadians were some of the OG tv pirates. They were the hookup for hacked satellite boxes in the 90's.
It's why most of the shows I watched as a kid had the maple leaf in the corner.
I tried searching for this but only found recent news. Anywhere I can read about this? Wikipedia, article, or book?
I love tech history.
There's a little bit in this Wikipedia article but I can't find much either.
IIRC it mostly stemmed from a lot of US tv channels not being available in Canada at the time. So to make them available, they started hacking satellite descramblers and Direct TV cards. Then they found a giant market in the US willing to buy these boxes and cards to get free tv.
There were people in the US making them too, but the Canadian stuff was more reliable and updated quicker when Direct TV changed codes.
This is great! Thank you.
Netflix is really shit as a subscription anyway, it's gone downhill with the amount of 'tiers' and constant slop production that encourages cancelled 1-season shows over longer, fan-driven works.
Thanks for the reminder. Just cancelled
People paid for Netflix?
Suckers come from both sides of the border
Ukraine had to start banning Russia funded slop after the invasion...
Maybe doing it before the invasion would have been better.
the quality and selection are better on certain websites with weird little cartoon character avatars
Argh, eh!
Eco-Max makes good dish soap and other products like that here in Canada...free shipping in Canada and you can get it at Walmart:
Did you mean to comment this somewhere else? Or am I just not getting something?
Made sense to me. Canadians dropping American goods in favor of Canadian made ones.
I too am confused by this streaming to cleaning connection.
really? I thought the canadian connection was the relevant part (shop and promote companies in your area), but the walmart drop kinda confuses me lol.