Buy Canadian
A community dedicated to buying Canadian products.
Une communauté dédiée à l'achat de produits Canadiens.
Rules:
1. Posts must be related to buying Canadian-made goods and / or using Canadian-owned services
2. Absolutely no bigotry will be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
3. AI Content Policy
Not allowed: AI-generated images or articles
Tolerated: AI-generated post summaries
4. When discussing a Canadian product that isn't available nationally, please do your best to specify where it can be purchased
5. Only content in French and English is permitted
6. Declare all self-promotion
Users are encouraged to report any content that violates our community guidelines
Règlements :
1. Les poteaux doivent être en lien avec l'achat de produits et / ou de services opérés par des canadiens
2. Aucune bigoterie ne sera tolérée. Ça comprend, mais sans se limiter à, le racisme, le sexisme, l’homophobie, la transphobie, etc.
3. Politique sur le contenu IA
Non permis : Images ou articles générés par l'IA
Toléré : Résumés IA de publications
4. Lors d'une discussion sur un produit canadien qui n'est pas disponible à l'échelle nationale, veuillez faire de votre mieux pour préciser où il peut être acheté
5. Seul le contenu en français et en anglais n'est toléré
6. Déclarez toute auto-promotion
Les utilisateurs sont encouragés à signaler tout contenu qui ne respecte pas nos directives communautaires
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I'd start with Internet. Actual Internet infrastructure, buy an actual independent party that's not reliant on Robellus.
Banking thats not directly reliant on the big 3.
I understand, and appreciate the point and intent on the CRTC and the Canadian financial system protections. But the consumers get fucked as a result of them as well. At some point, the gates have to get opened here, somehow.
Banks used to pay us interest. Now they soak us in fees, reporting billions in quarterly profits, under government protection (and let's not kid ourselves, they are the government). Ditto for the communications system.
lol, I get $0.01 on over 1k in a savings account, yeah used to get more. wondering what the point even is anymore
Shop around for a better rate? Most of the offerings from big banks are literal trash like .01% or something.
Wealthsimple is Canadian for example and has a few % on their base savings account, goes up with amount in the account. It was up around 4% before the fed bank rate got cut multiple times. Every time the BoC cut the bank rate they cut the interest on their savings acc a proportional amount but atleast you still get like 30x what big banks give.