"Canada has failed to co-operate in curbing the ongoing flood of fentanyl and other illicit drugs, and it has retaliated against the United States for the president's actions to address this unusual and extraordinary threat," says the statement. 

If I remember correctly most of the fentanyl found was heading north to Canada not south to the US.

So I have a Reddit account still because I frequently come across posts that I want to say stuff in, and my local community c/Saskatchewan has not really embraced the boycott US as much as I wish it had but today I was talking with my grandmother when a notification popped up on my screen saying Reddit wanted my eyes on their ads, it was actually someone replying to a comment but what is the difference? I thought about it and decided that it was time for me to turn off Reddit notifications, and man did it feel good doing it!

"As an infectious diseases specialist I never would have guessed this was going to happen because measles is supposed to be eradicated."

I am thankful that my father got me toilet paper I am, I am however having difficulties seeing how Costco’s house brand of toilet paper can have the maple leaf on it. Sure it is made in Canada, by machinery in Canada with a bit of human quality monitoring done by some Canadians but the profits are still going to the US.

Am I going to far with my boycott ideals and only wanting to shop Canadian, at Canadian stores/chains to keep as much as that money in Canada? Do not get me wrong I understand that there are Canadians who depend on US stores for their income and it is not exactly easy to get a job at a Canadian equivalent right now. Am I wrong in wanting all the US retail to F off and be replaced by Canadian things?

I am also aware that Costco is kinda sorta like the good guy saying no to a lot of Trumps stuff.

As the title says I cannot believe I used a US company (Apple) to create an email address for Lemmy.ca, I have been going wild on seeing what “free” services/emails I have been signed up for using Apple’s hide my email and sorting through my inbox. Seeing if I need things anymore or if there are Canadian alternatives. I strongly suggest to everyone go through your password manager (please say you are using one) and then go through what you may need in the future or what not (then sign up for a Canadian password manager like 1Password).

I am not sure that I got down to Lemmy.ca in my Apple Passwords, but I checked out my email for Lemmy.ca and it was a freakin’ icloud address. It was not easy to figure out how to change my email address but as of today I can proudly say my Lemmy.ca account is on a Canadian server.

So I have bad habits of doing in app purchases because I have a pihole that blocks the ads, so I cannot use the commercials to get power ups or whatever. I do not want to pay Apple for things so I needed to find a way to help me stop paying Apple for things. I wanted to originally fine the address to just block payments to apple from through my pihole, after reading things I found that this would probably block updates and all that and that is not a good thing. So I ended up blocking payments as if I were a freakin child on the devices, I guess I can still do it with the password maybe? Feels a little demeaning but I need to stop myself and making it harder for me to buy power ups or whatever is a good thing.

I also think there will be secrete DST charges, of greater then the 5% or whatever it is, added to in app purchases come the first. The big tech companies will not be happy that they have to pay a retro active sales tax.

I already have a Canadian company hosting my domain and random emails; I create a new email for every service I signup for which forwards to another address so that I do not get junk mail, one address starts spamming me I can just turn off the address. Then I have my ISP’s email address which I am thinking of leaving, but this is all besides the point. I am stuck on my iPad and iPhone because of family things, does anyone know of a non US mail app to replace my iOS mail app, I want to stay away from proton? I have replaced Safari with Vivaldi no complaints, it works along side my piholes at blocking ads, I have almost replaced Reddit with Lemmy, I have replaced YouTube with Unwatched, I am in the process of moving my media to Jellyfin, I have replaced Apple’s media store with a bunch of arr apps, and I am replacing all my Apple computer devices with raspberry pi’s.