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Apple iPhone π 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
General Motors, Ford, Dodge, Chrysler, Tesla
Why not use this chance to go full EV?
Apple iPhone π Buy a Samsung
Please, no. Samsung phones are the worst Android phones in the world. Use anything else before those.
Boeing π Buy Airbus. At least they won't crash.
You actually have your own aircraft maker.
What do americans sell that Canadians actually need?
Access to the US dollar / banking system and protection of your merchant ships. That's what you will need to find alternatives for.
Peter Zeihan has been saying for a while now that the US is going to stop protecting merchant ships that aren't their own. Canada is going to need to protect it's own ships to/from Europe, Central and South America and Asia.
Why not use this chance to go full EV?
I am very happy with my Kia EV6.
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 most Toyotas are built in the US.~~
Edit: some production is starting in Kentucky.
Carolla's and Camry's are made it Mexico. The moved them from Cambridge ON, and started making Lexus' at that plant.
Can you buy BYD EVs in Canada?
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/
I would add some digital recommendations. While not entirely canadian, does help for leaving usaβs ecosystem.
gmail/outlook -> protonmail (switzerland) cosmetics and health -> well.ca (canada) private messaging -> signal app (swiss) laundry & dishes: Nellieβs clean (canada)
Tuta for email seems like a better choice than proton
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.
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!
Apple iPhone π 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.
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.
Yup. Some of the Chinese brands are decent and unlockable if anything American is off the table.
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.
Yeah, that's what I did. Most of the junk on Amazon is the same stuff anyway.
I realize it's a "lesser of two evils" thing, and I'm not a huge fan of giving alibaba my money, but I want to give my money even less to Bezos.
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.
Britbox as a non-American option to supplement CBC Gem and Crave too.
Payment π Use Interac instead of credit card.
Seriously that should be #1. They charge 2-3% transaction fee to the vendor, give you 1% back as a "reward" to give you the impression that you're not being screwed over and pocket the rest. Meanwhile Interac charges only 1/10th of that and it is Canadian.
Paying with a credit card is like playing a 1-2% tax to the US. I'm sure if someone did the math they'd be horrified by his much of a drain it is on our economy while it boosts theirs.
Also Krita has become extremely capable and easier to approach coming from Photoshop than GIMP IMO. If should at least be listed along it as an alternative to Photoshop.
Cash. Cash is life.
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.
Boeing π Buy Airbus. At least they won't crash.
I guess Bombardier was a casualty before the war was declared.