When you cannot find what you need from a local, independent business, support Canadian corporate stores over American corporate stores. Avoid American-made products.
When you cannot avoid an American corporate store, try to buy Canadian-made products.
Shop at local, independent businesses when you can; dollars spent in your community stay in your community.
Whenever you have the option, buy Canadian-made products.
Trump’s tariffs are going to be disastrous for Canadian businesses, and we must lessen the impact by keeping our dollars at home. Every Canadian should stop buying American products whenever possible.
Canadians must be willing to give up some things we enjoy in order to prioritize the wellbeing of our fellow citizens.
Every Canadian should immediately cancel any vacation plans to the USA. No one should be taking pleasure trips to a country led by someone who is trying to destroy our economy.
This is a pivotal moment, and all of us need to think about how future generations are going to judge our actions. Who are you going to be? When tomorrow’s youth ask what you were doing in 2025, will you be able to say you did everything you could to stop Trumpism from spreading to Canada?
A megalomaniac is in control of the United States of America, and his first acts as president have viciously targeted minority rights and undermined regulatory agencies that keep the American people safe. Now he’s coming for Canada.
We must take a stand against Trump and everything he stands for.
Photo of a hand holding the book Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast. Cover features a cartoon of two seniors (the man looking worried and the woman looking angry) sitting on a couch talking to a middle-aged woman.
I enjoyed this graphic novel about a daughter and her parents navigating old age and death. It’s rare to read an honest depiction of a family that loves each other but doesn’t really get along (but without the huge dramas of most dysfunctional family sagas)—lots of dry humour despite the sad topic.
Hand holding the book Good Talk by Mira Jacob. The book has a red cover. The title and author name are block letters with illustrations of the author on them.
This book was excellent: Funny, sad, scary and hopeful. An important series of conversations that show the experience of contending with race in America as a woman with Indian ancestry and a biracial child.
Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.
Nazis would infiltrate punk bars with one guy.
One guy's there, he's not doing anything. Not hurting anybody.
Next day, it's two guys, still being chill, keeping to themselves.
Then it's 8. Then 20. A week after that first guy, it's a Nazi bar.
Twitter didn't ban the Nazis, now it's a Nazi bar.
I just finished this a couple weeks ago and loved it! I got totally wrapped up in the email drama.
Great article!
“But to suggest we should yield [to] Trump’s odious politics…is unacceptable…We cannot abandon the most vulnerable communities to assuage the most powerful…[T]he goal posts would keep moving until progressive politics became indistinguishable from conservative politics.”
You want to debate about things like tax policy or public transportation? Sure! You want to debate about other people’s human rights? Get bent—I’m smashing that block button!
Public Libraries can be wonderful places where children and adults can find books that they can see themselves reflected in, no matter who they are, and books that can introduce them to entire other lived experiences. Both are so valuable!
My TBR pile just keeps growing! I’ve been on a mystery kick, because I need escapism. I’ve been alternating with more literary fiction, but also with random beach reads. I could read through my TBR by the end of next year if I refrain from buying more books, but the chances of that are…nil.