Sadly it's because they are filling for bankruptcy and will be closing down their physical stores. But their online stores will remain open.

Their clothes are of incredible quality and look great.

I can find canadian-made pads, but not tampons, and much less canadian-owned tampon manufacturers.

Does anyone know of such a manufacturer that sells in Quebec? Ideally something high quality with a nice applicator.

Once upon a time there was discussion about the DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and how we need to move to a Canadian one. The one passed around was 149.112.121.30, CIRA (protected).

I had said something about going a step further and just using your own via Pi-Hole and Unbound. Someone I do not remember who as that is why I am posting here said yes but the pi still has the DNS server you set it up with, they said they would look into it further at a later date If they did look into it and post something I am truly sorry as I cannot find it.

I have gotten into using less US internet things and I recently got to find out that I needed to figure out my VPN setup a little better. This lead me into a deep valley of infosec and I am trying my darndest to strip things away. Anywho I was looking into something and there was mention of apps possibly falling back to system DNS so I found /etc/resolv.conf where I changed my DNS system on my 3 currently operational pi’s to access DNS like this.

Edit: I fixed some editing and hopefully made the commands more clear

This was bolded (I guess putting the comment marker first in the line makes it bold) but inside of the conf file at /etc/resolv.conf I changed it from,

Generated by NetworkManager

nameserver 9.9.9.9 To

Generated by NetworkManager

nameserver 172.16.1.50 # Primary Pi-hole

nameserver 172.16.1.52 # Secondary Pi-hole

nameserver 149.112.121.30 # Canadian DNS (CIRA Canadian Shield: Protected)

I also needed to add this to the end of /etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/pi-hole.conf

This is for Canadian and psuedo-Canadian backups.

forward-zone:

name: "."

forward-addr: 149.112.121.10 # CIRA Canadian DNS

forward-addr: 9.9.9.10 # Quad9 Canadian (with filtering)

forward-first: no

I get into computer projects and find ways to one up myself, I wish I could say I crash tested everything the old fashioned way but I have used ChatGPT to crash test things. Only because I do not have a computer with a strong enough graphics card to run a local LLM and breaking one thing could set me back hours or even days.

Here's a diagram showing all the Canadian tax software options, almost everything is made by a Canadian company except two of the most commonly used.

Please stop using turboTax and H&R Block, you'll likely save quite a bit of money by switching to one of the Canadian owned options too. (H&R Block charges $49.98 for a typical couple, Studio Tax charges $17.50 for up to 10 returns). GenuTax is completely free to use.

Links to each of the Canadian options are available on ShopCanadianStuff.ca

The graphic is originally from ShopCanadianStuff.ca/blog

They have various price ranges and the company is based out of Toronto.

La guilde du jeu vidéo du Québec is a guild of video game studios from Québec. Check them out for a list of studios and games made in Québec.

You can also check out this list of video game companies established in Québec. Some are international companies, but many are local indy studios.

I found Eco-Max for household cleaning products, and Simply Go for skincare, but I don't know of any Canadian company that sells the following:

• Deodorant
• Body soap / body wash
• Shampoo & conditioner
• Facewash

I've been looking for a couple weeks for good public cloud options I can use that are not US based.

I tried OVH but my account was flagged as suspicious upon signing up so I can't use any of their public cloud services.

I just signed up for Hetzner, but I'd prefer Canadian based servers.