Canada has huge reserves of oil, natural gas, minerals, timber. Americans need that.
Canada doesn’t need anything americans sell
Adobe Photoshop 👉 Use GIMP or Affinity.
Adobe Illustrator 👉 Use Inkscape or Affinity.
Word and Excel 👉 LibreOffice is better. No AI shit and it won’t spy on you.
Microsoft Windows 👉 Use Linux. It’s more secure anyway.
General Motors, Ford, Dodge, Chrysler, Tesla 👉 We don’t need shitty american cars. Buy Hyundai, Toyotas, Honda, Volkswagen.
Apple iPhone 👉 Buy a Samsung
Starbucks Coffee 👉 Just drink local coffee.
McDonalds 👉 Buy from A&W or Harveys
Hyatt Hotels, Marriott Hotels, Four Seasons 👉 Go to Canadian hotels
Amazon 👉 Fuck Jeff Bezos. Buy from your local stores.
Maxwell House Coffee 👉 Balzac’s Coffee Roasters is Canadian
Tourism 👉 Visit Quebec, Banff National Park, Niagara Falls, Vancouver Island, Johnstone Strait, Yoho National Park. Go north to watch beautiful Arctic landscapes. At least you won’t be shot and killed.
Boeing 👉 Buy Airbus. At least they won’t crash.
What do americans sell that Canadians actually need? Nothing. They just sell convenience. Their products are often substandard
The biggest lie is that we needed them. We’ve become addicted to the lifestyles that they’ve exported via their gross culture. All their movies and fucking “reality” tv (which is so far from actual real life that it’s almost a case study for nominative irony). Look what it’s wrought on them though. The putrid apathy of the pitiable, American public is a LESSON for us. We need to stop taking their drug, or we’re going to get as sick as they are now. While we still have any agency left!
Amazon is really really hard to avoid if you need something the local stores don’t sell. I’m going to give AliExpress another try, but it wasn’t promising the last time.
There’s no streaming category here, as well. Crave and Gem can probably keep you going between them.
Britbox as a non-American option to supplement CBC Gem and Crave too.
Amazon is really really hard to avoid if you need something the local stores don’t sell.
There’s lots of Canadian stores that deliver.
OP was probably including anywhere in driving range as “local”, and that did too. If you mean by mail or similar, that can be an option, but there’s several barriers.
If I want some obscure radio part, it’s probably not anywhere in Alberta, and might not be for sale anywhere in Canada.
Apple iPhone 👉 Buy a Samsung
Google sucks D but buy a pixel and immediately flash it with GrapheneOS or wait a bit longer for a compatible Motorola IMO
-American who wishes Canada would just invade and take posession of Wisconsin and often fantasizes about running in to the street with beer and food to welcome Canadian soldiers
I would add some digital recommendations. While not entirely canadian, does help for leaving usa’s ecosystem.
gmail/outlook -> protonmail (switzerland) cosmetics and health -> well.ca (canada) private messaging -> signal app (swiss) laundry & dishes: Nellie’s clean (canada)
There is also FastMail and Mailbox.org and others that aren’t American.
ProtonMail isn’t for everyone. Most people want a smooth experience.
It also has a bad reputation so emails sent from there are more likely to end up in the spam filter or rejected altogether.
Natural resources.
Canada relies on the US for oil and lumber. That’s why we’ve been trying to get out of free trade agreements ever since the US forced them on us.
I don’t doubt you but why do we rely on them for oil and lumber? You’d think we produce enough here. But maybe we’re sending it all south to be processed into something usable.
We sell crude oil to the US to be refined and buy it back. We sell whole logs to the US (California) to be turned into dimensional lumber or furniture and then buy it back.
This is done to ensure that the Americans have more jobs but also has the added effect of them making the majority of the money off of these resources.
From what I understand Canada doesn’t produce many value added products. We sell lots of dimensional lumber and crude oil, but not much gasoline and furniture. We even started selling whole logs, to be produced in China and elsewhere.
California mills our logs for us. We don’t produce much dimensional lumber.
We don’t need shitty american cars. Buy Hyundai
Almost all Hyundai’s sold in North America are made in Alabama
Airbus has a factory in alabama too. Every company that builds factories in the us builds them in suburban parts of the worst states to keep their costs down and their workforce from unionizing. No large company, american or not, is above that.
Toyota is similar. Of their 15 North American factories, two are in Ontario, two are in Mexico, two are in California, and the remaining ten are all in us states that are republican strongholds.
Hyundai’s north american factories are in georgia and alabama. Kia’s two american factories are in georgia. Honda is ohio, alabama, both carolona, indiana, and georgia. VW is tennessee, texas, alabama, and oklahoma. This is every one of them.
Every single automaker I checked does most of their North American manufacturing not just primarily in the us, but specifically in the states that support those making threats against Canadian sovereignty.
The only solution as a car buyer would be to only buy those that are banned in the states. Or maybe not even that. BYD does have one american factory making busses. It in California, one of the less bad parts so there’s that at least.
And a lot of Fords are built in Canada, and a lot of parts in whatever car from elsewhere in the US. It’s kind of an ABUSA edge case.
And most Toyotas are built in the US.Edit: some production is starting in Kentucky.
Can you buy BYD EVs in Canada?
Although it’s probably going to be only the high-end models, unless dropping the quotas on Chinese cars becomes part of the trade war.
Soon. They are in the process of setting up 22 dealers here.
https://energynow.ca/2026/04/byd-to-open-20-car-dealerships-in-canada-this-year/
Carolla’s and Camry’s are made it Mexico. The moved them from Cambridge ON, and started making Lexus’ at that plant.
RAV4 is built here as are the Lexus NX and RX.
A large portion of RAV4 production is moving to Kentucky.
Due to US demand. Canadian dealers will still source from Canadian plants. Obviously this is information is current as of today who knows what changes could come about in coming weeks
Source: wife works at Toyota in Cambridge.
Ya, we used to make them all for the US as well.
Apple iPhone 👉 Buy a Samsung
Samsung phones are better than iPhone, but in the meantime only slightly. Their bootloaders have become pretty much impossible to unlock, meaning you’re stuck with Android (Google). At the moment Linux is not particularly workable as a daily driver for most people, but it’s good to think ahead in hopes that we might be able to rid ourselves of the Appl-Google duopoly some time in the future, and being able to unlock your bootloader is one of the keys to that, since it is a precondition to installing a different operating system.
Yup. Some of the Chinese brands are decent and unlockable if anything American is off the table.
Buy a used pixel and put Garphene OS on it. WAY better experience.
If you don’t need to buy a new phone right now, wait until the Motorola phones that support GrapheneOS.
Also stop buying Google Pixels. Wait for the Motorola phones that support Graphene if you have to use that OS or buy a Samsung.
Buying a used Google Pixel to put GrapheneOS on it isn’t as bad as buying a new Google Pixel.
No, Samsung sucks from a FOSS point of view. Go Chinese before you touch those cursed things. Buying a used whatever is also an option.
While most Androids might be Samsung, they aren’t as good as they used to be. I’ve had lots of problems with Samsung products from tech to appliances in the past 5 or 10 years. At this point, I don’t buy anything Samsung. LG isn’t as bad.
Wow, do they actually have most of the Android market share now?
Obviously, there are tons of other brands making Android phones, from Fairphone to Google. I think LG has something, as well, now that you mention it.
I implied if you don’t care about FOSS go Samsung. I’d never buy a Chinese phone personally but you do you. They’re also expensive and many don’t have band 13 which is needed for most carriers Canada ( I won’t use Rogers or its subsidiaries and Freedom Videotron Telus and Bell all use band 13 in rural areas - I’m in a rural area)
Okay, sure, if you don’t care, Samsung would work. If you care at all, they use program-once SoCs from hell. (You mentioned Graphene, but there’s also Lineage, and Motorola is American FWIW)
I too am a rare rural Lemming, and I have a used Chinese phone running a custom ROM. It looks like the export models tend to have a full compliment of bands, and 13 is listed for all of them. If you literally get a domestic Chinese phone model custom imported, sure, you’ve made your bed a bit, and might have to sleep in it. I’d be shocked if they all cost more new than Samsung, as well.
If you don’t like China either, yes, you do you. There’s a case for it. They’re kind of like America geopolitically, and not just becoming authoritarian. Sony also had something Lineage-compatible, as of last I checked.
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