If anyone else has been unable to file taxes due to capital gains or losses, the software now all has updates that allow filing to be done.
I’m ignoring my guests and doing my taxes.
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Has anyone found a Canadian cereal? Or European or South American or Asian? Cereal (not granola) is a breakfast that makes everyone happy while I sleep in. I bought rusks for this week but the small one is less likely to fall for it.
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The closest we have found are Quaker squares. Pretty sure Quaker has a factory in Peterborough. But we don’t think the ingredients are all Canadian.
I know Kellogg’s used to have a plant in London, and if you checked the Kellogg’s boxes you could see which union manufactured them (either London or somewhere south of the border).
Cereal has been the hardest grocery for us to switch over. And we love it.
I saw shredded wheat in the cupboard after husband went shopping, so he must have determined close enough? But I’m not positive.
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Post Shredded Wheat is Canadian. I eat old people cereal.
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Do you have Nature’s Path cereals out there? V popular in BC, where the company started. I think Costco carries only the granola, but Superstore/Loblaws out here carries all the cereal options. There are some kid-targeted variations of cornflakes, cheerios, etc. Nature’s Path Cereals
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We do! I checked some in a store 2 weeks ago and it was product of USA… I’ll check other bags now that I know they are Canadian. And Canadian owned US made might trump US owned monolith, Canadian made?
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Thank-you for reminding me I need to make granola!
It’s all very confusing! The company is founded and still owned by the BC owners, but the contact us address is just over the border in WA. I’m not surprised that some of the cereals are made in the US; hopefully some are made here, too! I should check the one that DH eats… fingers crossed. But Tardis is also right that Post cereals are often Canadian. I think Shreddies, too?
ETA: Yes! Original Shreddies | Post Consumer Brands Canada
Weetabix and Raisin Bran too, huzzah! (Now I will be singing, “good good whole wheat Shreddies” in my head all day…I am old.)
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No frills had these handy stickers in the cereal aisle!
I’m sure that the ingredients are not all Canadian, but I’m happy to support Canadian factories.
I did check them all, and the boxes matched the stickers
Some of the Kellogg’s is stickered, some not, depending on which factory it was made at
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I was in superstore and they had Oreos labelled as Canadian. They are not. Loblaws is shit.
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Loblaws IS shit and was properly getting quite a bit of shit before we started throwing all our shit towards the Orange Cheetoh. Loblaws is a big winner in all of this.
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There is no substitute for reading the fine print on the packaging. It takes twice as long to shop now, but worth it.
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bless my mother for already scoping out our local Bay for deals. here to report that underwear is not on sale yet, in case you were also planning to stock up.
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Election called for April 28.
Let’s do this.
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Does anyone have an unscented dishwasher detergent that works and is available in most or all places? I use kirkland but am somehow down to a single tablet.
I can stretch to lemon but most scents are a firm no (I’ve had to throw away or rehome several) And the last hippie unscented one I got was in individual little bags to rip open. It was terrible. So liquid or powder are much better than that.
Have you tried Canadian Tire? We’ve had good luck there in the past, but can’t remember the brand name. Hubby insists on using Palmolive, which I am allergic to. The solution is he does the dishes, while I hide out in another room…or outside.
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J’ai Fini season one de St Pierre. C’est bon Mais pas incroyable. J’aime q’ils parlent franglais, c’est un de mes langues preferes. (L’autre es spanglish)
I feel like their use of franglais was pandering to the former French immersion students who, like me, never totally learned French but could do a nonsense mix all day long.
Also the random capitalization is from autocorrect, who fought me at every word. Autocorrect es anti-francais!
(Or my keyboard isn’t programmed to be inclusive of both official languages)
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Oh I’ll look forward to watching it. Franglais is very real for francophones, too, though I expect it’s also very regional as to which English bits can get slipped in and we’re still considering ourselves to be speaking French.
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the Rick Mercer-GOC ad is such a guilt trip. every podcast I listen to is airing it right now. and the regular radio. I’m doing my best Rick, leave me alone!
when I was in high school I had a geography/social studies teacher with a theory about how important it was that Canada was a physical buffer between US and USSR. Since his standing ISU topics for his World Issues course the last year of high school included Kashmir (India/Pakistan) and Korea, I can see where he’s coming from.
I had the sudden 3am neuron connection that if US and Russia are buddies, the crappy historical geographical precedent is Poland.
(I think one of the other topics was the international drug trade, but I can’t recall the other two, the premise was that you chose one of the topics in Sept, followed the news until March and then wrote about it Apr/May. I asked him how he knew there would be enough happening on those subjects ahead of time, and he said with those topics there always was. It’s 30 years later, and those are still legit. One of my favourite teachers.)
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