I’ve been doing the ‘buy Canadian’ thing for a few years now. I actually enjoy the game of trying to find cool folks making cool stuff and I know that there are others like me just like there are people who lack the time or inclination to do the research.
I also think it can be tricky for people looking at starting a business to be able to identify a need.
So what’s a product you don’t know of a Canadian alternative to?
Personally, it’s cast iron cookware. Meyer makes great stainless stuff, but there isn’t a single foundry making cast iron cookware in Canada. I’ve actually started emailing a few to see if I can find a Canadian foundry that would be willing to batch produce cast iron skillets. Finding a local brand already doing it would be a LOT easier!
Unfortunately I don’t have an answer for cast iron but I’d be interested too if anyone else knows a brand as I’d like to acquire a cast camp oven.
Have you tried a carbon steel skillet? Similar performance/use case for skillet sized stuff IMO but lighter. Not sure if there’s a Canadian brand for commercially available carbon steel skillets either honestly; but plenty of euro options, or a local blacksmith could make one. I plan on attempting a small skillet myself once I get my smithy setup this spring.
I’ll trade you a homemade carbon steel pan for a homemade stainless steel spatula ;)
I need this pretty bad.
Thayers Witch hazel facial toner. I have seen a couple of Canadian products but not with the same/similar ingredients.
Eatthwise is a Canadian brand that does an unscented witch hazel hydrosol but it won’t have the glycerin and other additives in Thayers
I got a bottle and it STINKS 😣
It smells like actual witch hazel which the Thayers doesn’t as it is rather diluted. True witch hazel vaguely smells of hot dog water for lack of a better term.
I just can’t use it on my face. It also stays around 🤢 I’ll use up the bottle on insect bites on other body parts but back to searching a toner.
Credit cards. Not like a Canadian Tire card, but the equivalent of Visa, MasterCard or AMEX. I have a line of credit through my bank, but it’s tied in with Visa. Think of the amount of $ we give the US through interest and/or annual fees! Would it be in the billions?
WHY isn’t there a Canadian credit card?
Canada does have Interac E-Transfer, which is already used as a free alternative to the likes of PayPal. It is also possible to use e-transfer for business transactions. An e-transfer system similar to Alipay where you scan a QR code to pay would be quite handy to make payments at stores. Would it be possible for credit card merchants to use e-transfer for their transactions?
“free”?
Would it be possible for credit card merchants to use e-transfer for their transactions?
Makes accounting a nightmare if it’s not integrated with Point of Sales. But Hong Kong and Brazil and a few other countries already figured out how to use a single system for e-transfers and digital payment method, it can be done if Interac is extended - and better yet, nationalized under the central bank.
