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I wouldn't be surprised if the boycott is the reason Canada has been steady economically so far.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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Ask all the American tourism industry types who whine about the loss of Canadian visitors if anybody's still doing the boycott. Ask Jack Daniels and Jim Beam if Canadians are still doing the boycott.
Yes. People are still doing the boycott, and in the case of Canada I think we may be watching a cultural shift appear in real time. In 25 years when people think "vacation" in Canada they'll either think "Canada" or they'll think literally anywhere else in the world other than the USA.
It is truly fun to behold.
For Life..
Canadian here: 100%!
I've gotten it down to just google products (youtube and android), but will be replacing them as soon as I find the means to do so. Once that's done, there will be nothing left in my life that's US, not even entertainment.
This will continue indefinitely, too ♡
Absolutely and it's going even stronger!
As a Canadian, I watch Guard the Leaf and it strengthens my resolve every day!
Greece here, doing my best! nothing change and nothing will. FUCK USA.
I can write as many as fuck usa I want, cause fuck usa. Kids died, and their complain was their fucking oil!
canadians are still buying canada
Canada here. Still avoiding American produce in the grocery store if possible. I've missed citrus fruit, but some Moroccan oranges showed up last week. Mexico is our main supplier these days.
I spend 1-3 minutes to look for the company address. US address? Let's check the next one. Their fine prints won't stop me!
Norway checking in. Doing my best. About to be 100% free from Google. No Amazon... no Microsoft.. no Apple... For the most part I buy no American products either. Think everything is going great 🙂👍
No amazon in norway isnt hard tho^^ norwegians should try no coke and tesla.
Sorry not trying to shit on you, just disapointed in many others here, no microsoft google and amazon is a great thing, getting rid of facebook dependency here would also be nice.
Me and my very large extended family are 100% committed to the american boycott for the rest of our lives. I have children in my family who have vowed to never travel to or buy from america. They have lost my family for at least the next 3 generations...
It's kind of hard to boycott American goods when you live in the country, but I'm trying my best.
You can at least favor smaller companies instead of the big corpos. By the way, are there small family-owned businesses still surviving?
It depends on the industry. You'll see some independent bookstores, a few art supply stores, and other niche things that corpos don't really do well enough to completely obliterate all human passion in the sector. Otherwise? Nah, the only other area where mom-and-pop stores are doing well is restaurants. I had to drive four hours to purchase a lenovo computer from an official retailer (a mom-and-pop joint in the middle of nowhere in Massachusetts), since I refused to use Amazon.
That's sad, but at least a few sectors persevere. I hope the anti corporate movement gives them a new breath
boycotting the us became the normal life for me
Yep! As much as I can.
I'm doing my part, but i've also been doing it for a few years now
I am doing my best
Definitely doing it. Not travelling to the US until he's dead. Hasn't been perfect, but most food staples I check labels for USA origin, and pick anything else.
I'm currently looking for a Canadian alternative for good quality playing cards that aren't cheap plastic souvenir garbage, I want to give some to a relative that loves Bridge. Might post about it soon.
Why start up again after he dies?
This is a serious question.
People keep mistaking Trump as the source of the problem in the USA. He isn't. He's the symptom of a deep cultural rot that was decades in the making. If you had your eyes open very widely you could even spot today's USA in the late '70s. By the '90s even someone with cataracts could have seen what was coming around the bend. (I pledged never to set foot on US soil myself in 1999 after what I saw in Houston.)
Trump's death will solve nothing; indeed it might make things worse: the Redcaps will have their conveniently dead saint, and smarter people will be where Trump is, using his effigy to effectively manipulate his Redcap following. Picture in your head President J.D. "Peter Thiel's Puppet" Vance.
I apologize for the nightmares I've just induced.
Absolutely agree with you on the fact that America's problems don't start nor end with Trump, and there's a lot beyond that, that needs to be done for the world to lend its trust back to it. I've said my piece on that within this comment.
I'm just being realistic and thinking ahead of time with what can temporarily suspend or fully call off my boycott. There's a long list of things I need to see before I would even consider incorporating the USA back into my vacation plans. There's a shorter list keeping me from stepping foot there whatsoever.
Even if absolutely nothing else changes, Seattle will be out in the streets celebrating like crazy. It's one of the few events I'm willing to break my boycott just for a night to share the joy, before I go back to boycotting again.
ETA: I went to the USA last at the start of 2025 before Trump took office so I could get one last look of a pre-Trump2 baseline... going for a day can give me a another snapshot before things go from bad to worse, if what you're predicting pans out, or better if Americans manage to clean house with a Reconstruction 2.
I like to drink alcohol and I live in a city that is famous for beer. So I am not feeling any pain in choice of alcohol. If anything the replacement of American beer and Whiskey has made more room for Canadian brands I didn't know existed.
There is at least one craft microbrewery in almost every medium sized city in Canada, there's so much to try.
Also I find Canadian rye to be superior to most American rye
I've never really found a rye I actively liked. For me it's best as a mixer at best.
I'm going to miss bourbon.
But I will be missing it. There's no going back to it ever again. The world is full of good hooch. I'll make do.
I think we're getting less loud about it as it becomes less of a boycott and more of a way of life. "Canadian first, but anything but American" is kind of the new normal now.
Def doing so. I stopped using US-owned social media altogether, and no longer buy American products. Friends whom I know also stopped investing in the US and moved to European ESGs and SRIs.
Yep, many are divesting in USA companies, and bringing their money to the EU.
Yup, and to avoid another US 2.0, it's advisable to invest in worker-owned co-operatives, into independent, investigative journalism, and pro-democratic, antifascist movements. Be critical of algorithms that foster polarisation and right-wing sentiment.
More democracy means better business, better labour, better wellbeing environments. Social wellbeing pays off greatly.
Exactly. Get a subscription on a good newspaper, it helps protect independent journalism. Become a party member, and make sure to vote. Naturally, that is not reeeeally a US boycott, but this is the right time to adjust your personal strategy.
Yup. I can recommend the Jacobin, Follow the Money, Die Tageszeitung (German), and De Correspondent (Dutch).
Its stopped being a boycot for me, and a style of life. I still buy far fewer American products than i used to, and always check where its made.
Canadian here, eh, boycotting them as much as I am able to
I like many here left Reddit and found Lemmy because of the boycott. I dropped all my US streaming services and moved to the high seas. I stopped using my ISPs email because they use exchange. I have officially spent my last cent to apple as I self host things, still looking for off site backup of my Nextcloud but that will come soon enough. I started boycotting the google (minus Youtube) years ago, now I use an app that blocks ads. All of my computing that does not happen on my iPad or iPhone happens on raspberry pi’s. I still take this boycott very seriously.
You can bet I’m still boycotting. But after the big initial sweep (low hanging fruits: email providers, social media, shopping, … this is all continuing), changes are now incremental and/or take a bit longer to implement: reduce dependency on natural gas (eg insulating our house), selling the USA EV… But overall, the dies have been cast. Most crucial now is to convince friends and family, so keep the posts with examples and successes coming.
I boycotted almost everything corporate for years and got to where I physically couldn't boycott any harder, then when that became not enough to satisfy me I moved out of the country entirely. American owners and government have lost at least six figures of my money due to ghoulish behavior, and I'm just one person. 10,000 of me (only 0.002% of the population) lost this way in the last few years is already a billion dollars lost. It certainly must be adding up even if most people are too blind to see their own power
Boycotting on most food and household products, also unsubscribe from a lot of online services and sailing the great seas. I even thought my mom how to use steamio to get her to save money on her netflix subscription. I wish there were more alternatives for computers; our Chinese phones are great; I dropped my huawei phone (in a protector case) from a 5 meter roof and not even a scratch.
cool :3 just saying, if youd like a phone thats european/OSS i use fairphone with e os. which is rlly good from my experience.
also linageos sounds good, never used tho so idk
100% and it's fully normalised now, I've even switched to UK English spelling myself and on all my devices.
My parents' iMacs are running Linux and everyone is drinking local Kola. My focus is now on encouraging friends and family to join in and helping where I can. (mostly the tech stuff) I also like to throw US and Israeli products to the back of the shelves in supermarkets. Even made some 'Buy European' stickers to put over barcodes.
It is less of a true boycott to me as I live in the US that would be hard lol and more of a sustained campaign to convince people not to continue serious relationships with my government until we fix how wildly dangerous shit has become here.
I will keep advocating for moving off dependency on US companies and services because I can see first hand the danger and destruction happening here with my own eyes while the center of this country still clings to the comfort of condescending people like me for being worried....
...as the iceberg that sunk the ship clearly looms over their shoulders with ship paint scraped clear across it.
"Why are you being so alarmist? Nobody can even prove that paint was from our ship yet." - they say with their arms crossed
Yes - quite successfully, the only thing I haven’t switched over yet is my Office365 to OpenOffice but thanks to some account sharing we’re down to 1/3 of a family subscription.
I went to Vegas recently. And I plan on visiting Hawaii. But other then that I buy canadian when possible and if something big I need too purchase comes from the states I try to find one made in canada instead, or literally anywhere else.
You'll spend more money on US goods by each of those vacations than any purchase over a whole year.
I mean you do you, please just don't give yourself an illusion. This is not "boycotting 80%" - if your vacation spending is anywhere close to the median it's more than you'll buy in goods throughout the rest of the year combined.
Cool story bro
This right here. "I'm boycotting US goods except for the HUGE amounts of money I spend on vacations in the USA" is not the flex people seem to think it is.
Why Hawaii? There's a myriad of non-US tropical islands to visit that aren't filled to the brim with crass assholes. Hell, Hawaii was a grossly capitalistic Hellhole back when I went there as a child in the '80s. What's next? "I'm boycotting the USA except for my annual trip to Disneyland"?