I don't know enough about the why but I think it comes down to licensing incompatibility but it sure would be nice if someone who knows how this shit works could get the publicly available Canadian address data into OSM at minimum.
I'm in the same boat where a solid 90% of the time I search for a street address its not in OSM regardless of which Canadian city I'm in. Sometimes its able to find a block number on a street but not the individual address so atleast that gets me on the right side of town most of the time 🤦♂️
Business name searching seems to have improved for me a few updates ago and it atleast finds business names that have already been added by someone most of the time as it should. Sometimes it shows a business name on the map but it doesn't find it and I can't click on it to select it.
I wanted to double check before recommending them cause I wasn't sure if they were vegan or not, seems to me they don't list any non-vegan ingredients, BUT it does say it MAY CONTAIN crustaceans and fish at the end. So could be wrapped in the "spice" ingredient, but I'd think stuff like that would be listed separately for allergies. Or perhaps only included in other flavours made in the same plant? Like obviously a shrimp flavour would probably have them?
ANYWAYS, dropping it as a not-perfect rec but atleast something.
Indo Mie Mi Goreng noodles. Absolutely delicious and made in Indonesia. Available at a lot of major grocery chains, not just specialty ones. The pack I'm looking at is BBQ chicken flavour, but it is artificial chicken flavour. So vegan but not clean at all really. All their stuff is top notch taste though, comes with powder mix, crunchy onions or something, and then 3 different liquid sauce packs in it to mix and match.
Unfortunately NOT clean ingredients IMO, just standard instant noodle health benefits lol. And has refined palm oil in some of the sauces to boot :( now that I see the palm oil I think I may look for a new favourite too.
image by AI; not my prompt
Annnd done with that article 🙄
So far, the developers have voted on the project’s name, chosen a new color scheme for branding, removed the Kayak affiliate links carried over from Organic Maps, and started moving away from several Google services.
Oof I had no idea Organic Maps was going to shit. I never really got on with Organic Maps anyways and ended up preferring OSMAnd~ after getting it figured out.
May check out coMaps once they've had a few updates to get their feet situated and see what they would do differently.
How could their market be that large there when no one believes in vaccines in the states lol
"Sustainable" and "Mining" are contradictory terms. No such thing.
Its a term used to greenwash damaging industries.
Edit: Good question, here's my take.
I dislike publicly traded companies regardless of which stock market they list on; but I can see how IF one was listed on a non-US country's stock market, you could still consider it under the umbrella of that country depending on the investor breakdown. But you would need to find an investor breakdown by country because whoever the big player investors are, are the ones controlling that company now. Are any of them US based? That sucks, US company in my mind. Are there venture capitalist firms involved? Do they own a majority? It gets messy fast and always ends the same. I haven't considered it much since I dislike public companies anyways.
At this point so many decent companies have been ruined by fiduciary responsibility to investors that I just abandon hope, count them as a lost cause going to shit really fast as soon as a company goes public because they are legally beholden to their investors now, not anyone else.
Even if its listed on say the euro market or canadian market instead of US, they'll still be subject to enshittification, could have their controlling interests switch to a hostile nation (US) at any moment (edit: case in point, AstraZeneca ditching UK stock market for US), and eventually will be sold out to venture capitalists when the husk is no longer profitable.
Fuck late stage capitalism.
I sincerely hope so too, but that never seems to be enough without people being forced to take a stand via gov't policy. And our gov't caves to Trump at every opportunity (also looking at you Big Tech Tax that Carney, and EU folded on Canada Day, happy Canada Day everyone /s).
My good friend who is very well off and supposedly "boycotting the States" bought US cherries over BC cherries (one of BC's BEST products) the other day, and was surprised when I declined any, because I am actually boycotting the States. All it took was "Because they were on sale, the BC ones weren't." This is someone who makes over $100k/year by themselves, are DINK, and the price difference of $1.00/lb was enough to make them forget the boycott and go right back to buying US goods over prime, in-season BC goods, as long as they are on the shelf available.
And this is Alberta we're talking about with the booze. 30% of the population wants to secede (actual figure as of yesterday) and form little AmeriKKKa on the prairie and the other 70% (hyperbole) wants to stay in Canada but still hates LGBTQ people and the environment thanks to years of rightwing brainwashing and undermining the education system in AB. I literally CANNOT talk to family members in AB anymore it has gotten so bad, they are so brainwashed. Like that side of the family does not exist anymore.
Danielle Smith is pushing another secession referendum right now! One of the ONLY Canadian politicians who went to Mar-A-Lago to swear fealty to Trump before he was sworn in lol. She should be charged with fucking treason and hung.
If anything, I'd bet >50% of Albertans would rather choose US over Canadian wines a lot of the time, since Canadian wines primarily come from BC, Ontario, and Québec, all of whom they hate because sadly, they are too stupid (by design with the rampant education undermining) to understand how the Equalization system works, (or the pension system, or literally *insert any other gov't program here *).
No I count who owns and profits from the company, not where it originally started before being sold.
It sucks that buying successful businesses and ruining them is par for the course for capitalism but here we are.
Edit: to be fair I have no issue with Chinese EVs or Volvo, but I wouldnt count it as a European car maker anymore.
You can make your own for much cheaper; fuck capitalism.
IIRC all it is is a bit of dish soap watered down and a dash of Isopropyl alcohol. I picked up a gallon jug of Isopropyl online specifically for refilling our powerwash bottle.
Edit: bonus is drastically cutting the plastic waste that comes with powerwash refills
Many of CO-OP's house brand products including their toilet paper and paper towels are Made in Canada.
Western Family paper products seem to be as well, although I prefer co-op gold for this application.
Not sure if any other house brands are as well? FRANK stuff at Canadiantire is good quality but I don't have any to check the place of manufacture.
Lol so they go with the US big tech offering (Microsoft)...?
Did they not catch the memo from the EU, we should be moving to sovereign digital services hosted by Canada in Canada.