I’ve been thinking about this for a while. If you looks at our major industries that aren’t controlled by Canadian oligopolies, we let the US take over and continue to support them. For example, streaming services (Netflix, Spotify, Paramount, HBO, Disney, YouTube, etc…), fast food (McDonald’s, Starbucks, Wendy’s, Five Guys, Timmies, etc…), home improvement (Home Depot, Lowe’s, Rona), retail (Wal-Mart, Amazon, Costco), tech (Google, Apple, Microsoft), credit payments (Visa, Mastercard), food brands (Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, print media (Postmedia Network, which controls over 130 newspapers across the country), social media (Insta, Snap, TikTok, Facebook, WhatsApp), retail gas (Esso, Ultramar, Chevron, Pioneer) are all US companies. I can keep going on (pharmaceuticals, oil and gas operations in Alberta, and entertainment).
It’s ironic when I see Canadians hating on immigrants for not being “Canadian”, yet those Canadians copy Americans like no tomorrow. And now we have separatists in Alberta simping for the US and politicians that vocally support Trump (Doug Ford, Danielle Smith, and PP). Wtf is going on?
For streaming services I have moved to my *arr stack (apps like sonarr and radarr) and CBC gem, I am not going to pay to watch US content. Even if I used the global, ctv, and citytv apps I would not be watching the ads because I use a pihole setup to block most ads. I use Unwatched to view YouTube videos as it blocks the YouTube ads. I have moved to self hosting my stuff (file storage through Nextcloud, my VPN through wireguard so that I can access most of my things away from my LAN, my images via Immich, my notes through Joplin, my web search through searXNG, and my password manager is vaultwarden so I can use bitwarden on my devices) if I had the money I would replace my iPhone and iPad with something I could easily load a new OS on. My desktop has been broken for years even if it wasn’t I would have installed Debian orsome fork of it. I have moved my blog to a Canadian host for my domain name and email host (I use a different email for everything to make me worthless to advertisers) my host is hosthero. If I had the money I would replace my HomePods with a DIY thing as I have moved all my automations (minus my good night one, I may figure out how to move it over once my place is repaired) to home assistant.
The only reason I use AWS is because duckdns.org is hosted on it, and I use duckdns for my ddns for all my VPN things.
I only really shop at the coop.