Weekly Recommendations Thread: What Canadian products do you recommend?
Weekly Recommendations Thread: What Canadian products do you recommend?
Weekly Recommendations Thread: What Canadian products do you recommend?
The County Bounty: Made in Ontario, pays a living wage, woman-owned, supports Indigenous initiatives.
They make delicious sodas, iced teas, and sparkling water.
I just ordered a whole bunch. Many different flavours, long shelf life, less sugar, and prevents the pain of carrying heavy cans from the grocery store. 👍
Henson safety razor. It's the only product I ever purchased based on sponsored recommendations, and I actually didn't regret it. It's hard to clog, easy to clean, and the minimalist design compared to other safety razors helps with tight spaces. The handle's grip pattern works better than you'd think too, without scraping flesh.
After using it for about a year, my partner (who uses razors a lot more and has really sensitive and fragile skin) finally worked up the nerve to try it. Now we have two.
To be clear though, it is a luxury product. You can get a quality safety razor that works just fine for half the price, easily. I probably still wouldn't have grabbed one myself, if it weren't a Canadian product. You can go for the titanium version if you're an utter financial masochist.
I’ve got one too. It’s probably my third or fourth safety razor I’ve tried, and by far my favourite. I’ve got the aluminum one in blue. I got it as a gift, otherwise I probably wouldn’t have spent the money on it. Like you said, you can get good quality safety razors for far cheaper. But this one is definitely very good.
Looks amazing. I just purchased one based on your recommendation
Was it shoesonhead who convinced you?
I didn't bite right away, but I was on board the first time it was presented to me, which I think was either by Practical Engineering or Steve Mould. But I might be misremembering and there's at least a half-dozen other possibilities, what with the sponsorship pricing/bidding ecosystem working the way it does.
(Ad brokers track what "open offer" sponsorships are providing the best value to content creators, resulting in everyone choosing a few top picks. It's the reason why a single sponsor will seem to blitz the entire space all at once.)
Attitude's toothpaste!
Dog food - Oven Baked Tradition
Made in Québec, low baked to keep the nutrients intact. Pretty high quality food, reasonable price.
I just got a box full of Yupik goodies, and I'm as happy as a clam!
I had no idea Yupik was Canadian, or for that matter anything more than an Amazon seller. I guess it's time to give their catalog another perusal.
You can find Yupik products on Costco.ca too
I decided over the past while that I really don't like the smell of Dawn dish soap. I wanted to get something unscented, and I heard that 'The Unscented Company' is Canadian. Luckily they have a dish soap of their own, so I bought some recently to try. It works great! Just as well as Dawn. It really is so nice to not have perfumes clinging to certain types of dishware like silicone spatulas, pans etc. Also, Dawn was the WORST for cleaning our air fryer basket. Whenever the air fryer was turned on after cleaning it with Dawn, it would REEK of dish soap and I found it disgusting. Not a problem anymore!
Also, The Unscented Company is a B Corp and women-owned which are also pretty cool causes to support.
My wife has a lot of skin allergies, and the Unscented Company is the only brand we can easily find that works for her. We pretty much have all their products. She definitely recommends them
You are running out of time to purchase a crop share from your local farmer. Mine went up 30% this year, ouch ouch ouch.
I'm back again to make another recommendation: This time, it's for Canadian cloud storage. I'm a bit of a data hoarder, I have lots of music projects and stuff, and I am obsessed with making sure I never lose my data. I saw an ad on Instagram for sync.com so I checked it out. Fair warning: I've only been a subscriber for about a month, so my experience with them is limited so far.
But the website interface is nice, maybe a little on the clunky side when moving files around, but it works. They also have a Windows app, which pretty seamlessly integrates your cloud storage on your Windows PC. It sort of works the same as Microsoft OneDrive (which I also have) but it has its own special folder. The software is a little... basic, and maybe even a little buggy, but it seems to work for my use case.
They offer a free account tier with 5 GB of storage or something, which could be useful for sharing a work file with someone, or a photo album, you name it. They have a few different tiers of storage, all the way up to UNLIMITED, which increments automatically in blocks of 10 TB and is VERY EXPENSIVE. I got the 2 TB plan for $82.80 taxes in. I got it 25% off.
But I like it so far, and I thought I would share with you guys to let you know sync.com is legit and is Canadian.
I was looking for a new dog food brand recently because my dog's kibble was American. I tried the 'Inukshuk' one I saw recommended on here in a different thread. The ingredients seem good and I liked that I could order a sample bag for $5 rather than committing to an entire bag without knowing if my dog would like it because she's extremely picky. Took about two weeks to arrive in interior BC from when I ordered it.
(My dog does like it, but that's a pretty subjective criteria. Some dogs are pickier than others.)