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Wow that's a gorgeous uke! A bit out of my price range as a beginner, but fair for an acoustic-electric made in Canada!

Wow they sound like a nice family run Canadian business! I may end up buying from them I think. They even plant 5 trees and 5 kelp in Canadian forests per uke!

10% off and free shipping right now too

And replaced with cheap, exploitable TFWs!

Definitely, the quality difference is unbelievable!

I find most of the people I know that complain cafés are too expensive drink drip anyways and it seems to be about the same price everywhere 🤷‍♂️. Its $2.16 for a large drip at Tim's here, and $2-$3 at most every local café I've ever been to apart from really bougie ones.

People just see the $4-6+ milk drinks and blended frozen drinks (with real ingredients, apples-oranges) and get sticker shock compared to Tim's fake whipped topping and sweetener sludge (sorry, "iced capp") for $4.19 when they could be enjoying much better drip in the meantime for effectively the same price.

I have a poker dice board from them! Really great quality and fair pricing

Mary Brown's has good chicken. Big Mary Monday deal used to be good, don't have any around here now.

A&W is awesome. Canadian ones are locally owned by franchisees and it shows in the quality. Antibiotic free run Canadian chicken last I checked. Free run Canadian eggs. Good quality Canadian beef. Canadian vege for the most part I think... All for the same price as the slop served at other fast food joints these days. The coffee isn't my favourite but I know lots of people that like going there for breakfast and don't seem to mind. Usually has a decent sit down atmosphere for breakfast. Lots of them host car meets still in the summer.

I WISH Robin's Donuts was still around. Unfortunately Timmies all but put them out of business before enshittifying. I randomly found one up around Lake Superior a couple years ago in some small town if I remember right. They must have bought out the location and kept it going. They were still baking fresh donuts in house, had the same mugs, same coffee. It was like stepping into a time capsule and made me loathe what capitalism has done to Timmies.

For coffee you are usually best finding whatever local non-chain café you like best and stick with that. If I'm visiting somewhere I'm not familiar with I just search for a non-chain café and get to try some new coffee.

If you really like the chain coffee shop vibe I believe Blenz and Second Cup are both decent Canadian founded and owned still, maybe someone else can confirm, I can't find the details rn

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Wow I wish my knitting level was about 84 levels higher

Chaotic good

My god was East Side Mario's disappointing when I tried it again about 2 years ago... Sure has gone down in quality and up in price.

Ah lucky, I wish I had known about them when I was living in Ontario!

No open external links in default browser option in Connect?

Excellent read.

No doubt that cunt Rosalyn Bird (PG MLA) will gladly support Parmar and Fehr further dismantling our lumber industry in the name of bribes and short term buyouts.