My guide to buying more Canadian / less American
In Person Groceries ➡️ Go basically anywhere but Walmart. Look for “Product of Canada” on packaging. “Made in Canada” is 2nd best. If the company is Canadian that is the 3rd best. For produce with no packaging ask someone at the store or use one of the buy Canadian apps.
Instacart (ordering groceries) ➡️ Voila (and use the shop local option in the app when possible) or https://montreal.lufa.com/en/marketplace/category/your-local-marketplace/specials
Amazon ➡️ Home Hardware, Canadian Tire, Princess Auto, KMS Tools, BMR, and Lee Valley for in person shopping. If you’re going to order online use the Canadian Tire App.
Google Drive ➡️ Sync. If anyone uses someone’s referral code they both get 1 extra GB so here’s mine. https://www.sync.com/?_sync_refer=181a30ae0
Netflix ➡️ Crave and CBC Gem
Disney Plus and Prime ➡️ Ahoy Matey, Sail the Seas
Uber Eats ➡️ Skip the Dishes
Burger King / Mcdonalds ➡️ A&W, Law & Order, Harvey’s, or any local restraunt / https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_restaurant_chains
Starbucks / Mcdonalds Coffee ➡️ A local cafe or second Cup. Tim Hortons is half owned by an American company.
Subway ➡️ Mr Sub
Play Books (ebooks/ audio books app) ➡️ Kobo
Amazon ➡️ https://www.singingpebblebooks.ca/ for physical books
Dairy Queen ➡️ Chapmans from grocery store
Microsoft Office > https://www.libreoffice.org/ or you can host an Etherpad server https://etherpad.org/about
Pet Smart ➡️ Pet Valu or Ren’s Pets
Default Android Apps by Google (messages/phone/contacts/notes/file explorer/gallery/etc…) ➡️ Various Fossify Apps (not Canadian but is open source and has no tracking)
Google Maps ➡️ HERE WeGo
Spotify ➡️ Qobuz
Google Search ➡️ Qwant
Tap with your Visa ➡️ Tap with your interact debit card
It’s weird to see someone (presumably) from a country on the continent of North America refer to the USA as “America”.
It refers to the country’s name. I don’t think anyone thinks of themselves as having a shared cultural identity of “North American” tied to the land.
This is a grammar misunderstanding. I wrote American, not America.
When referring to their country it’s USA, but when noting citizenship of a business or person from the US, it’s “American.” Similar to how a citizen of Canada like myself is referred to as Canadian. It is good to note that it was a little presumptuous of people from the US to start calling themselves American when America is the name of the whole land mass, but it’s probably because they started calling themselves after the 3rd word in their countries name.
And the word “america” doesn’t appear in the name of any other country on the continent(s), so it’s really not as ambiguous as the pedantic “but we’re all americans” commenters would suggest.
IMO, you’re symbolically ceding the entire continent to them, and that’s a problem when that country is quite willing to take you up on that.
It’s the most convenient shorthand for the “people from the USA”. The other one is “Yank”, but that one has disagreements too
All Canadians call the USA America. It’s just how it is, no one thinks deep on it
We are Canadian, not North American. No one ever, ever, ever says that.
I don’t. I usually call it “the states” or “The US” or “shithole jesusland”
I only call it America when I’m mocking them.
Or 'murrica. Usually as response to something absurd
Which is actually somewhat unique. Full disclosure I am Canadian.
There’s historically been no issue (that I’m aware of) with calling someone from the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa by their continental identity.
Wonder what happened over here? Just size of landmass and country?
“American” fucked it all up
Making a distinction between “from the USA” and “from the continent of America” is quite common in Spanish. IMO that’s worth emulating.
We already have that in English. It’s “American” vs “North American”.
Pretty standard. The People’s Republic of China is usually just called China. The United States of America is often just called America.
The PRC does rule all of China (except Taiwan, which is an island and very small in comparison).
Not if you consider the extend of historical Chinese territorial claims.
The USA also pretty much claim all of North and South America, but IDK if you should really humor those imperial ambitions.
Sure, yeah, Monroe Doctrine.