The big grocery store chains have also been caught profusely maple-washing. Best to avoid Loblaws/Sobeys/etc even if they are big Canadian companies. Try to go to independent markets if possible.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/sobeys-loblaw-maple-washing-9.7196767

There’s also Fairphone, which I think is Dutch

As an also-Canadian I’ll chime in here to say that there are definitely people in this country without health insurance coverage. If you’re here as a non-resident, you typically don’t have government insurance and are subject to out-of-pocket billing. I believe there are about half a million people in Ontario in this situation, not sure about other provinces.

I know the OP was supposed to be rhetorical, and I agree that the American healthcare is an embarrassment — but the reality of healthcare administration is complicated, and I’m not sure dumbing it down like this is all that helpful.

Coffee machine??? I hand-grind my coffee every morning in a mortar and pestle and then use my Rok to manually press the perfect espresso.

But I also let a self-hosted AI model control the lights and HVAC in my house, cause it does it way better than I ever could manually.

Honestly my mailbox is like 10 pizza flyers for every actual letter. And most of those actual letters are just bank statements that I can’t figure out how to switch to digital.

This year I did get a christmas card from a friend though. So that was nice.

With a lifetime supply of microplastic particles!

fwiw I’ve owned a pair of Shokz running headphones for like 5 years now and they still work great. No noticeable issues with battery degradation. Maybe only issue is the rubber cover for th USB socket got stretched and I recently cut it off.

That ship has long sailed. The chinese are so far ahead in every respect on this. There is no point trying.

Maybe we can get a head start on the next transport revolution. Fusion powered flying cars maybe.