As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more US companies say retailers turning away their products

Don't forget to stop using your credit cards! They're all American an take a percent of all transactions.

I'm going to take a slightly more nuanced take on this as someone who works in the enterprise software ecosystem.

Microsoft doesn't just sell office to the government or university anymore. Their Microsoft 365 subscriptions include e-mail, office, intranets, communications, security, collaboration tools, and even more.

You can replace the office part with Libre Office no issues, and for home use I would absolutely recommend that instead of paying for a Microsoft license, but the moment you need to start building your own e-mail servers, file sharing systems, getting software for messaging and video calls, etc. the price (software, hardware, maintenance, tech support) goes up to well above what Microsoft charges.

Unfortunately, Microsoft provides decent value.

I'd love to see a non-American competitor that offers such a comprehensive business package, but there isn't even a realistic American competitor at this point, Google is the closest with Google Docs/Sheets, Gmail, Google Meet, Google Drive but having used it extensively it's still falls short of what Microsoft is doing and of course it's also American.

If you need to sign up to 6 different companies to get the same functionality coverage it's never going to be as integrated, as easy to use, or as cheap.

Every time I see American news about Canada, it is striking how they are so completely clueless about how infuriated the Canadians have been with the US lately.

This isn't just one of the usual quarrels we have with them from time to time. This is an existential threat. Canadians are kept awake wondering if they'll have to wage guerrilla warfare against an invader in their future. All of this because the spoiled rich toddler the Americans have elected has decided that he is entitled to Canada.

This CEO apparently thought the US treating Canada like they are under sanctions, while threatening to invade them, is how you normally treat your biggest trade partner and close ally.

In this upside-down you have Trump repeatedly threatening to invade Canada and Greenland while only being "upset" with Putin. He has got the whole US in travel advisories of close to a dozen countries at this point (not just the wacky Red States), and we are only 3 months in.