Let’s boycott Amazon and support a great crown corporation.

TLDR Health Canada > CDC+FDA. Don't eat American produce if you don't wanna poop your pants.

By February 2026, USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service had lost 913 staff, while the Food and Nutrition Service lost 564. The agency’s National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection was also axed. All told, more than 20,000 workers left USDA last year.

Cyclosporiasis is caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis, a single-celled parasite that lives exclusively in humans and causes particularly violent and long-lasting diarrhea. Infection is almost always through ingesting food or water contaminated with feces containing cyclospora oocysts; these take many days to become infectious, so person-to-person transmission is very unlikely.

In an American context, cyclosporiasis outbreaks are almost always caused by improper sanitation at farms or food processing facilities. Farmers around the world routinely refuse to provide adequate toilet or handwashing facilities for their workers if they think they can get away with it, to save money.

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IMO we're going to see quality control issues in every single American export. I would be extremely wary of using medications or medical devices produced in the USA. With no government entities enforcing regulations we have to assume corners will be cut at the expense of quality and safety.

Wondering what's the best option to buy and sell the occasional thing here and there that isn't Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist.

Any grassroots medium with decent traction?

Sidephone is a simple phone with extra abilities that make it easier for you to stay offline, away from distractions, living real life.

Apps available like Signal, Firefox, Proton, Fossify, K-9 Mail, Obtainium, Bitwarden, and more

https://www.sidephone.com/

Any recommendations?

We have window screens with punctured holes in them. Any recommendation for replacements or repair kits that are made in Canada?

Any more brands I should add to my list?

My current list:

1. Co-op
2. Sinto Oil
3. Supreme
4. Motomaster

I found one brand named Fildex.

I’m forming my own Canadian vehicle consumables list to keep the money within the country.

The last place that did my oil change used 83% of materials from American brands.

Wanted to share how happy my pup was with the treats and food toppers from Shades of Gray.

She is a picky eater and tends to avoid eating her breakfast. Using the topper, she has been gobbling down her food! The treat sticks have also helped her cope with the indignities of bath time.

Highly recommend for dog owners out there. Looks like they have cat treats too!

Hope you guys don't mind me posting this in this community. Upvote or downvote if you like or dislike it.

Particularly would love a Fairphone. Have considered buying from https://clove.co.uk/ and have considered asking if friends in Europe would be willing to ship.

But before I do, I want your opinions. Does anyone have any good options?

I'm not looking to buy a Pixel nor a Samsung of some cracked convenient store version of a smartphone.

I've never used GoDaddy. I don't know what it is other than being a domain registrar and also offering Outlook 365 for a higher price.

How would you convince someone of an alternative to it? I'm looking to know what services they offer so I can offer alternatives for them.

Are they a website builder as well?

Just found out this Wikipedia article where it says its american: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26W_Restaurants

But then in there there is a link to this other article where it says that A&W Canada is actually a separate Canadian company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26W_(Canada)

Kind of confusing to be honest but if I understood correctly, it seems like buying in there is not supporting the americans, am I right?

What’s your favourite Canadian sunscreen. I want a chemical one, not mineral. If the company sells lotions and sprays that’s a bonus

I know this is a small list, please comment with more

VPS

https://www.koumbit.org/en

https://patrii.cloud/

https://colocataires.dev/

https://globo.tech/

https://websavers.ca/canadian-vps-hosting

https://stormweb.ca/vps.php

Nextcloud file storage

https://canwork.cloud/

Web Hosting

https://www.vanguard-solutions.ca/products/web-hosting/

https://harborwebstudio.com/hosting/

Approved for Federal and Provincial Government use

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/accelerated-growth-service/en/impact-stories-thinkon

I found the blankets at strike gently co very cool and would love to get one but finding something similar made in canada would be even better, does anyone have any ideas where to look that isn't taking a shot in the dark with etsy

Hi Buy Canadian Lemmy,

I spent a long time making these botanical micro-art trading cards for myself. They are for each province and territory of Canada. Kind of a hobby that got out of hand. I made everything by hand, locally and offline, so every individual card has some variations to them.

I’m really curious if others would ever want something like this as Canadian made micro-art collectables, happy to figure out if it’s just me who likes them or?

I added a url for a waitlist (recommended to make one by a friend for this), just to see if anyone anywhere might be interested in my crafts. Not sure if it worked, as I've been on lemmy for a while but these are my first posts.

Thanks

Sometime ago I bought a Peugeot pepper mill and it came with a small sample of their own black pepper. I was shocked at how much stronger, hot and nice the taste and smell was compared whatever I had in a jar from the grocery store. It reminded me of black pepper I was used to some decades ago back in Europe.

I bought a few packets of this Peugeot pepper and it really is great, but it's also expensive. Given what I know about coffe and irs flavours, I'm guessing most of it comes down to how fresh the pepper is.

Do you know of a source that sells fresh black pepper?

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Any Canadian owned or Canadian made?