Yes, nobody should be harassing customer service employees. They are not the ones who made this decision and aren’t able to change it.

And if that’s not enough, check out:

1. Your local public television. I know Knowledge in BC has an app for various devices.
2. Your library. I’ve been getting a lot of DVDs from the library.

Yes, speaking of Canada specifically, China is less of a present and proximate threat. However, we still need to go into any agreements with eyes wide open.

I’m sorry. I don’t hold with that argument. People still need to shop somewhere, so shift those jobs to Canadian stores.

But cancelling Prime and avoiding Amazon is something people can do now without having to figure out if a website is using AWS.

That would make some more sense, given that we’re cutting scientists from the public service.

I don’t know that reference :) Apparently I need to play Stardew Valley - it has been recommended.

I found this video interesting, and the farmer talking about how hard it is to get their berries into stores because why would the store deal with a bunch of farmers when they can deal with one company. So the issue isn’t just merging of all berries under one company but the merge of grocery stores under a handful of companies.

Came here to say this. I want them to have a national edition - that I might subscribe to.

We need to subscribe to newspapers again. Or at least pick up the weekend edition. That said, I wish there was a way I could pay x amount each month and get access to a handful of newspapers.

Bulk barn is Canadian, but you’d have to look at where the products are from. They were labelling them; I’m not sure if they still are.

I’m fortunate that I have that option as well. I didn’t generally shop at them before, so not a big hardship, but I would be very hesitant to go back now if I did. They’ve had over a year (how long has this been going one?) to figure this out, and decided instead to do this.

But if the article is correct, and they don’t have to label, we need to change that. I’d rather a label that said “product of US, Mexico, Peru or some other five countries” if they really don’t know.

To start with, check out Mauril. It’s an app put out by CBC-Radio Canada. It uses bits of archive videos with vocab and comprehension questions. It’s not going to make you fluent by any means but it’s a start.

I second Krita. There also used to be CorelDraw… but they were acquired by private equity earlier this year :(

Yes. It seems like a little thing, but I think we really need to strengthen our cross Canada relationships. Those with indigenous communities as well.

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.

And we just signed a new deal with Microsoft - after all this trade war stuff started happening.

Instead we extended the deal with MS for 7 years. I don’t recall if it was this year or last but since all this started.

That was my reaction as well.

I’m concerned that you seem to be having such a strong reaction to my legitimate comment that many people (not all, maybe not even the majority) who say “I could never cycle because of xyz” have never tried - even in my very bike friendly city, even when people who share xyz do indeed cycle. But I’m done with this thread.