Buy Canadian

Besides there being little to no laptop chargers being made in Canada, are there any recommended distributors selling them?

Looking for good quality playing cards that could be an alternative to US Playing Card Co. (makers of Bicycle and a large variety of other decks). But it looks like it and its Belgian parent company (Cartamundi) owns nearly the whole market for playing cards. Is there no local printer for good quality playing card decks?

A relative of mine plays Bridge a lot and goes through standard playing card decks more often than most. So I thought getting a bunch of decks from a quality Canadian or non-US supplier might be a nice gift if one exists.

They should be standard 54 card decks, no fancy designs needed, it just needs to be a few steps up in quality from the flimsy dollar store decks and souvenir card decks...

Just bought my second set of glasses from there and went to print up the invoice for insurance, saw the address grrr.

With The Bay now out of business, that was the last chain I knew I could find Stanfields undershirts in at retail. Online orders aren't really an option for me. While the Stanfields website has a store finder, it will list the store if they carry any Stanfield product. So a store that carries only Stanfield base layers won't help me.

Anyone know where I can buy Stanfield undershirts in southern Ontario?

Cross posting from a Reddit thread.

Many of these offer other insurance like tenant, motocross vehicle, life, etc..

Canadian owned:

The Co-operators

Desjardins

Economical Insurance

Wawanessa

Aviva Canada

Gore Mutual

CAA

Belairdirect

Intact Insurance

Sonnet

Heartland Farm Mutual

I want to make some cash transfers to some of the poorest people. The main gang doing this seems to be givedirectly.org , a USAn charity

I might just use them, as that barely hardly counts as using a USAn product. (Not sure if they pay tax to the USA/Israel? Maybe they are exempt?)

But if there's an alternative outside that would be slightly preferable.

Go raibh maith agaibh

Hello. I'm looking for a men's windbreaker / rain / spring type jacket of acceptable quality and price. I've been looking briefly online and noticed either expensive or US-made (Patagonia), or recognizable brands with terrible reviews saying they're fake or dogshit quality (Columbia, North Face).

Things I'm looking for in said jacket:

-zipper, not buttons

-waterproof or at least water-resistant

-black like my soul

-made in Canada, if possible

-logos or branding kept to a minimum

-delivery if possible

-a hood

Here are a couple pics of the style I'm looking for.

I use windscribe VPN and I use sync.com. What other softwares do you have a Canadian alternative for?

A better social network

Hey.Café is a social network designed to be easy to use. When you join, you can create new conversations and join communities called cafés based on your interests. We are free to use with no ads, no trackers, and built in Canada.

Don't know anything about it. Looks maybe like a facebook analog. Saw it mentioned on Mastodon

For protection in case some crazy dumbass were to walk around with a gun in the neighborhood, I could feel safer at home. I can feel safer. Already have a PAL.

What would you guys say would be the third most popular alternative in Canada to Kijiji or Facebook Marketplace?

Also, what would be the most popular alternative to eBay?

I tried Karrot, a South Korean app, and it seems pretty good - there is a lot of options, and the UI is pretty clean: its not pestered with greasy ads like Meta and Kijiji are.

Other than them, what would be third most popular option to Kijiji and Marketplave excited for federated classified marketplace to become popular in Can

Hi folks, just wanted to share my experience and strategy with transitioning away from US-based digital services. As you can see, the blog is on GitHub, so it's not about perfection. Happy to chat in the comments!

Excerpts below. I thought the model names were interesting

Toronto scaleup says Tiny Aya can run in regions where large-scale infrastructure isn’t always available.

Toronto AI company Cohere has released a suite of new multilingual AI models that support more than 70 languages on any device, even offline.

The base Tiny Aya model (Tiny Aya-Base) contains more than 3.35 billion parameters (the settings that control an AI model’s output and behavior) containing the data for languages like Amharic, German, Latvian, Tagalog, and Zulu. Those 3.35 billion parameters are a small number compared to well-known large language models like ChatGPT, which have hundreds of billions of parameters.

Tiny Aya-Base powers the instruction-tuned TinyAya-Global model, which Cohere released on Tuesday alongside several specialized models for specific regions of the world. TinyAya-Earth is strongest for languages across the African and West Asian regions; TinyAya-Fire is strongest for South Asian languages; and TinyAya-Water is strongest for the Asia-Pacific and European regions.

Cohere said in a blog post that this approach “allows each model to develop stronger linguistic grounding and cultural nuance,” resulting in systems that “feel more natural and reliable for the communities they are meant to serve.”

“The future of multilingual AI will not be one giant model,” the blog post reads. “It will be a vibrant ecosystem of many models, shaped by many voices.”

Cohere said Tiny Aya is designed to run on local devices, in classrooms, in community labs, and in regions where large-scale infrastructure isn’t always available, with the intent of bringing “high-quality AI” closer to researchers working on underrepresented languages and developers building locally. The company said the model could be used by a university lab as an offline translation or AI education tool in classrooms and community settings, without having to rely on cloud APIs.

The models are here I think?: https://huggingface.co/collections/CohereLabs/tiny-aya

I am not familiar with this company at all. I saw it in my RSS feed and thought I'd share it in case it's helpful to anyone.

An excerpt:

Calgary’s Wagepoint has rolled out two new products aimed at streamlining and modernizing payroll for small businesses.

Founded in 2012, Wagepoint provides payroll software for small businesses in Canada, offering features like auto-calculated pay runs, automatic tax remittances, and integration with other small-business accounting software like QuickBooks Online or FreshBooks. The company says more than 30,000 businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers across Canada use its platform.

On Tuesday, Wagepoint announced the launch of Timesheets, a time-entry system built into the platform that allows employees, contractors, and administrators to submit billable-hour entries for approval.

Timesheets includes a feature that automatically calculates overtime based on provincial or territorial location, as well as automatically tracks billable hours for users.

At the same time as it announced Timesheets, Wagepoint also announced the rollout of My Wagepoint, its new mobile app. The app is intended to provide employees with access to time entries, pay stubs, and profile information directly from their cell phones or other mobile devices.

I’m not very knowledgeable when it comes to investing, so I’m hoping for some guidance. A few months ago, I switched my RRSP to RBC InvestEase and selected the socially responsible portfolio because I wanted my investments to better reflect my values. Recently, I started receiving letters from iShares (BlackRock) thanking me for my investment. I didn’t realize that my money would be going through BlackRock, and I’m not comfortable with that. What are my options if I want my RRSP to: Be managed by a Canadian company Invest primarily or exclusively in Canadian organizations Follow socially responsible investing principles Is this something I can request through RBC, or would I need to move my RRSP elsewhere? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Based in BC, they sell yogurt.
I'm not sure they sell in supermarkets, but maybe other small businesses can supply their products.
I found their Yogurt Drink in a Kebab place.