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Due to my numerous health issues and my diet (Dirty Carnivore - heavily meat based diet with only a few tolerable non-meat items) I have to read every single label to know the ingredients first and foremost. Since being housebound for nearly a year, I haven't had the chance to get to my favourite butcher shop "My Little Butcher Shop" at Eglinton & Dufferin here in Toronto. I am thankful though that things like my canned meat has no fillers & I buy Maple Leaf only. Actual meat and eggs are all Canadian. In all actuality, I'd say I had already been buying Canadian before all the stuff with the US happened. But I have a few items that I need for my diet that can only be bought state-side like Redman's Salt and NOW Foods Liquid Monkfruit Sweetener but other than that I remain completely Canadian.

Just looked up Save On House brands: They are 'Only Goodness' and 'Western Family'.

Yup. Every single time.

yeah you really have to look eh?

The problem is their in house brands like No Name, Presidents Choice and PC Blue Menu. The products under these names can all come from different vendors and the packaging on the product doesnt specify what vendor or source country. The labels change too. I got the Life brand lotion cuz it said made in Canada but the next bottle said only "imported for".

That should read “allow” jobs to stay in small towns

We use Co-op groceries in Saskatchewan. Good quality, lots of locally sourced options ands owned by the membership so you earn patronage on purchases. Coop gas for western Canada comes from the refinery in Regina. They employ hundreds and slow many small towns to keep their grocery stores and jobs available locally. It’s a win win win! I’ll pay a little more to have quality and accountability.

The more I see how rich the big guys are makes me want to support the little guys even more. I know some of these big guys are Canadian (like Superstore and Save On), but it's risky supporting too much of a monopoly. I bought some local organic beef at a small family grocery store couple weeks ago. I cringed at the price, but wouldn't you know, it was the best ground beef I have ever eaten! Totally surprised me

Save on is also Canadian owned by The Jim Pattison Group, which is owned soley by Jim Pattison, a Vancouver based entrepreneur. The company is based in Vancouver. Company operated in USA and Canada. Jim P. is a billionaire many times over.

Yes, just looked it up to get more details. Superstore is owned by Loblaws Co. Ltd, Canada's largest food and drug retailer, it also has new operations in the USA under name T&T Supermarkets. It's controlled by George Weston Ltd, a holding co. controlled by the Weston family, with an estimated net worth of 8.7 billion. Superstore private labels President's Choice, No Name, Joe Fresh. Originated in Western Canada.

I switched up canned gravy for St. Hubert's Poutine Sauce and was pleasantly surprised! It's a little more watery than typical gravy, but it tastes so great that I'll overlook it!

so is swish chalet and pizza pizza :)

Switched from american roasted coffee to local roasted. Switched from Fairlife milk to Dairyland.

superstore is canadian too.

harvey's is 100% canadian

In fact, we decided to stop more because of health arguments than because it's an american company. lol I can make hamburguers at home, for example,much healthier :) But I have been dropping american companies services as much as possible.

I've been working on a spreadsheet for myself and share it with my friends in my community. It summarizes what we can get locally from small family owned stores that is Canadian made and Canadian owned or the big stores like Superstore and Save on, and summarizes what I like to buy. If possible, I try to support the smaller Canadian family owned businesses first with their Canadian products. I did this before a little bit but now I am doing it more.

It's not often that I eat fast food, but sometimes. When I do, I will only got to A&W now in my community. I double checked online and their site says all 1050 restaurants are 100% Canadian owned and operated.

I am not Canadian. I live in Portugal. But I can say that I don't buy USA groceries. Well, it's easy, cause in general, their products are much inferior quality to what we have here. Even soda, like Coca-cola, is different in Europe (due to quality regulations). But we prefer Guaraná xD On the other hand, we used to go to McDonalds frequently, and we decided stop going there.

My main source of meat has been the Costco ground pork chub. Then I learned that they bring in their pork from the states. Have switched to the Maple Farms ground chicken in the "always $10" bin at Superstore.