Madeinca.ca looks to be a good resource for this kind of thing.
Tim Hortons? I thought that was owned by the taco bell conglomerate?
Timmie’s is owned by Restaurant Brands International, who owns Popeye’s and Burger King. They’re Brazilian now.
As someone in the US, I will be avoiding large US brands as much as possible as well. All the pain that nazi cockgoblin has and is going to cause makes me really sad.
I will always check the origin of a product. EU, USA, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are always a go. Now I will look a bit closer and make an effort to avoid the shithole red states.
Yeah but also fuck the PC brand they’ve been gouging Canadians too.
Just steal the PC stuff. Rob Loblaws.
As an American I really miss Liberté yogurt, its been over a decade since I saw it in stores.
Yeah, that was good stuff.
Kicking Horse Coffee is majority owned by Lavazza, an Italian company. Not Canadian, but still better to support than Tim Hortons.
As an American, honestly just avoid those brands in general. Not because they’re American made, but many of them are already shit to begin with. Maybe it’s shrinkflation, or all the wacky chemicals, or the way they treat their workers.
So take this opportunity not only to be patriotic to your Canadian country, but to also improve your own standard of living and buying better quality foods.
Wait…
French’s ketchup is Canadian but French’s mustard is American???Okay I’m not Canadian (or USian for that matter), but it’s common for big companies to have many production facilities and many product lines, so similarly packaged and named products are made in different countries and nobody pays any attention. Common example in my country is that since like two decades ago, Põltsamaa Felix was acquired by the Norwegian company Orkla, they’ll make some things here in their Estonian facility (in Põltsamaa, the town the company was named after) and then they’ll make some in Latvia or Lithuania, some in Sweden, etc. Unless you look at the package AND it states the country, you’ll have no idea.
Buy local and donate the difference if you really care. That way Rump doesn’t get that 25%, and it’s tax free.
Cool to see some brands I already use on here. Speaking of, I kinda thought everyone used Sun-Rype for their juice anyway. I mean, I am biased as I’ve been by their HQ multiple times so it just feels natural to buy their brand, but still.
This list is the equivalent of French’s “proudly made in Canada” Ketchup response to the Heinz boycott from a couple years back when they’ve decided to close their Ontario factory. French’s still being just another US company, that did not close it’s Canadian plants at the time.
Also it’s full of shit products and seems to push galen’s stuff mostly, when there’s so many smaller, local alternatives.
Many American brands I’ve never even heard of. And Nestlé is Swiss, not from the US.
Nestle deserves to be boycotted for so many reasons.
Absolutely.
Please provide a list then.
Seriously. I understand you waving the flag pointing out the lowblaw connection (I noticed it too and I haven’t shopped at lowblaw or their counterparts more than a dozen times in the last 2 years), but people need alternatives.
Even ONE option would be helpful, otherwise you are just making this shit seem even more hopeless.
How can I provide you a list of local products specific to your area? I live in the more French part of Montreal, Le Plateau, and everything is full of products from France and Quebec. Highly irrelevant to what you likely have in say Toronto.
I used to live in the Junction and would frequent three non-galen stores in the area (a local butcher, Sweet Potato and Stari Grad) and never encountered either the listed US or Canadian brands, unless I had to go to the no frills in the area for cheap TP.
This list is simply stupid. It’s an infatuation with big consumer brands and outdated products. Very typical of North America.
Montreal’s a pretty big city. If you’re willing to do it, sharing your local expertise can help a lot of people.
Just try. Instead of whining uselessly. A single Canadian made product you enjoy. You don’t have one? Then you are the problem.
You don’t want people buying big name brands. You say everyone else is stupid. Fucking pull your weight then.
I’m sitting on the can and I can see ‘true earth’ brand toilet cleaner is made in Canada. They have laundry soap and dish soap too.
And I know my fancy Lush shampoos and stuff are super local, if you can afford it.
And just in case laundry detergent isn’t on the tariff list I have Okazu miso chili oil on my counter at all times.
And Matty Matheson has a brand of kraft dinner that’s pretty dang good and not that much more expensive than KD.
So what about you? Gonna keep whining about a shitty list or are you gonna post something helpful? If everyone else in this thread did the same thing we’d have something to work with.
I think their point was “don’t just buy Canadian, but local” which means the unless you live near each other, their recommendations won’t help. This is generally more impactful advice.
But I appreciate your point that we want to make it easy to avoid American products, to lower the bar so more people do it; so listing national brands makes that much more useful.
Their point was to whine. If we need to buy local and OP’s intention is not just to piss and moan they could give a single example, or link to a list, or start a little data base.
Even just list some tips to start figuring it out for yourself, like "go to your fridge and take out the most expensive/most used items. Find the label and figure out where it’s from. If it isn’t from Canada do a google search for “local mayonnaise” or “Ontario made cheese”, or “Toronto hot sauce” and start looking for alternatives. They aren’t the single only person living in Montreal on Lemmy, and even if they were, their recommendation could lead others to search in a different way for what they need.
I’m not disagreeing with anything said, I’m trying to encourage the whiners to also contribute, as I have been as I whine about whiners. It should be a requirement.
I think there is still value in their reminder that Galen Weston isn’t forgiven, despite being Canadian; so don’t get so caught up in our passion to switch to Canadian brands that we end up giving our money to someone nearly as bad.
I still don’t really think them listing a single example (or many) would prove anything, or be meaningfully useful. I wouldn’t mind hearing some of their experience in looking for local, so people know what to expect, but I don’t think we need to be upset that they didn’t.
In other words, I think they are contributing, even if their tone is perhaps not ideal for moving people to action.
Seeing all these American companies earnings go down next report would be glorious.
It’s funny because I was saying the same thing basically in support of the tariffs and lemmy was unhappy with me.
You were ahead of your time.
But also small businesses will suffer or collapse and that sucks.
Maybe it is more of a, “well now that they’re here what’s the silver lining”?
Probably already mentioned, but afaik Tim Hortons is American now
Last I checked, Tim Horton’s is owned by Restaurant Brands International, which came to be as a merger between Tim Horton’s and Burger King. They are headquartered in Toronto. Their majority shareholder is a Brazilian investment company though.
Fair enough, seems I was wrong.
Tim Hortons is about as uncanadian as Starbucks, they’re owned by RBI, which is owned by 3Com, a Brazilian food conglomerate.
