542
Buy Canadian (more or less)
(www.robcottingham.ca)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
542 points (98.6% liked)
Canada
9535 readers
777 users here now
What's going on Canada?
Related Communities
🍁 Meta
🗺️ Provinces / Territories
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
🏙️ Cities / Local Communities
- Calgary (AB)
- Comox Valley (BC)
- Edmonton (AB)
- Greater Sudbury (ON)
- Guelph (ON)
- Halifax (NS)
- Hamilton (ON)
- Kootenays (BC)
- London (ON)
- Mississauga (ON)
- Montreal (QC)
- Nanaimo (BC)
- Oceanside (BC)
- Ottawa (ON)
- Port Alberni (BC)
- Regina (SK)
- Saskatoon (SK)
- Thunder Bay (ON)
- Toronto (ON)
- Vancouver (BC)
- Vancouver Island (BC)
- Victoria (BC)
- Waterloo (ON)
- Windsor (ON)
- Winnipeg (MB)
Sorted alphabetically by city name.
🏒 Sports
Hockey
- Main: c/Hockey
- Calgary Flames
- Edmonton Oilers
- Montréal Canadiens
- Ottawa Senators
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- Vancouver Canucks
- Winnipeg Jets
Football (NFL): incomplete
Football (CFL): incomplete
Baseball
Basketball
Soccer
- Main: /c/CanadaSoccer
- Toronto FC
💻 Schools / Universities
- BC | UBC (U of British Columbia)
- BC | SFU (Simon Fraser U)
- BC | VIU (Vancouver Island U)
- BC | TWU (Trinity Western U)
- ON | UofT (U of Toronto)
- ON | UWO (U of Western Ontario)
- ON | UWaterloo (U of Waterloo)
- ON | UofG (U of Guelph)
- ON | OTU (Ontario Tech U)
- QC | McGill (McGill U)
Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.
💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales
- Personal Finance Canada
- BAPCSalesCanada
- Canadian Investor
- Buy Canadian
- Quebec Finance
- Churning Canada
🗣️ Politics
- General:
- Federal Parties (alphabetical):
- By Province (alphabetical):
🍁 Social / Culture
- Ask a Canadian
- Bières Québec
- Canada Francais
- First Nations
- First Nations Languages
- Indigenous
- Inuit
- Logiciels libres au Québec
Rules
-
Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Okay but all these capitulations are winning the capitalism battle while losing the culture war. It will backfire if it goes on long enough.
Can you elaborate?
I'm not 100% that I understand/agree with what they're saying but on a personal level, I don't feel comfortable with the "purchase Loblaws" instead of "purchase Walmart" since both are capitalist companies and neither care about human rights ("culture war") regardless of their country of origin.
I say buy local/small business to support the economy and fuck capitalist pigs like the Waltons or the Westons (recognizing that comes from a privileged pov of being able to afford to boycott those companies.)
Yeah, I absolutely agree with that. I haven't upped my Loblaws budget after quitting Walmart. I've been going to more local shops and stuff. I have been paying more, but I've been attributing it to the higher quality goods/services.
Also, even besides all of this US "hatred" stuff. In general, we should be shopping local for the environment and to support smaller and local businesses.
By embracing anti-American culture, these American companies are telling people that it’s not just okay, but desirable to shop Canadian (which is true but not the takeaway the companies actually want you to learn).
For now it’s easy to put on a mask, because consumers are unpracticed at making boycott decisions, but they will eventually learn and stop buying at the deceptive American companies too.