You don’t “need” to speak French unless you come to Quebec and even then, if you do you will have access to some classes. Some companies offer them to theit expat on site and there’s some from the government.

But you don’t have to worry about that if you move to litterally any of the other provinces.

Thanks all, I set up a mumble server on a local Montreal host. We’re currently using a realm to play but I might switch it to a full fledged server with the same guys.

A lot of the suggestions I liked on paper, like Revolt or Matrix and might take for myself. But the fact that there were community servers access directly in the app and no way for me to regulate their visibility for my kids instantly disqualified them for this specific use case.

With Mumla they only see the server I set up for them and I can control who comes in.

Sobeys’ Compliment and Metro’s Selection and very much Canadian alternatives and they cost the same as heinz normally. According to buy beaver there’s also Western Family.

I mean live tv is live tv.

They don’t play ads on “on demand” content.

Edit: I checked and actually the On Demand is basically the ability to “catch up” on live tv and will play it as is ads included without the ability to skip ahead so that’s pretty shitty.

I just find it as a good alternative to watch live tv legally on the cheap.

Canadian Streaming service missing from the list : RiverTV

https://rivertv.ca/

Basically offers what Stack TV offers on prime

Wtf, 40% of the waste comes from the US! Fuck that!

Omg, thank you! I’m trying to move my personal website and switch everything tech to canada or at least out of the US and it’s been sometimes hell to check where a company comes from / operates.

Great moment to download Duck Duck Go browser if only for the App Tracking protection. You will learn A LOT about the apps you use.

Language Drops is seriously awesome

I just want a graphene alternative for my samsung…

That info is outdated actually, 3G sold their shares in 2019 apparently, now the biggest shareholders group are american

https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/QSR/institutional-ownership/

Canuck trans sisters high five!

GIBSON IS CANADIAN? AND DOCTOROW!?

Damn I had no idea

Oh thanks for this, I was actively looking for new sci fi

Yes, tax avoidance is an issue and the bigger the company the bigger the issue. Supporting smaller local businesses as much as you can is the best option.

If the company is Canadian, then they’re paying Canadian taxes. Like, we don’t make rice in Canada but I’ll buy from 555 which is a local importer instead of Uncle Ben. Or for example, I try to buy Canadian soap but if I can’t, I buy French brands.

I buy Canadian first, anything but US second, any effort is good, there’s no way you’re gonna have a 100% local economy anyway…

The whole idea of the movement is to buy more consciously.

Depending where you are it’s honestly not hard to avoid amazon.

I’ve cancelled prime in January and since then, I found that every thing I needed and got there for convenience, I got from elsewhere for the same if not less and with the same kind of shipping speed.

Hell, just this week I was setting up my old vita for my son and found I needed a replacement charger. I found it from a used game store in Ontario, came to me in 2 days.

I’m ashamed of being lazy these past few years and using them so much when I could have supported local businesses instead…

It’s a hard one but next is to leave their platforms as much as possible.

I’m currently De-googling / de Microsoft-ing and it’s hard but feasible.

If you’re not ready to leave Facebook, follow the guide John Oliver’s team put out.

Otherwise, go see local comedians / bands or buy their stuff to support them, stuff like that

Fuck their Nazi ass, they can fuck off to Russia for all I care…

Posting links to reddit seems counterproductive