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2 days agoNo, they’re a big box store, not associated with a mall like a department store.
Paul Drye
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It’s been a long time coming. Department stores in Canada have been dying off one by one, and they were the last. It’s a business model that just doesn’t work here anymore.
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So far so good, though I haven’t really stressed it out with anything complicated yet. I write game books and things, but that’s been in Office 365 and (lately) LibreOffice.
There’s not a lot, but if you’re willing to look at “Not American” rather than “Canadian” there’s a few.
Daily software, I’ve been using Switzerland’s kSuite 's free tier for about a week, for emails and a Google Docs/Sheets replacement. It’s been fine so far.
For Ontario readers, Farm Boy’s store brand cereals are made in Canada.
Partly. Their largest shareholder is RBI, which is Brazilian-American-Canadian. Head office is in First Canadian Place in Toronto. The terms of the deal that RBI cut to buy them has the Canadian government requiring them to keep most of their office side of things in Canada.