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We Spent over $2k on a nursery set at a local furniture store in January 2026 before my baby is born. The store promised to deliver the products in 3 months, but now we're in August, the store still haven't delivered our products! And they refuse to refund because this is a SPECIAL ORDER. Not only they false advertise their products and how long it takes, when I left a negative review, they also called my husband to THREATEN him.

The store also claiming they have ONE YEAR WARRENTY. The dresser we bought from there was not working, one drawer kept locked. When I told them to fix it, the store told me I have to bring the furniture to the store in order to be fix. That dresser was like over 100lbs.

So this is Canadian business standards?

Ottawa will provide $10 billion in financing to upgrade and expand the Churchill Falls generating station, develop the Gull Island hydroelectric project, build transmission lines and implement a 2,000 MW onshore wind energy project in Labrador — with the exact location and other details for that wind project under consideration by Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro.

According to the federal government, altogether these projects represent the largest clean energy investment in North American history — valued at nearly $70 billion — and will nearly triple the current generating capacity of Churchill Falls, with enough power to light, heat and cool all the homes in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver combined.

Trump pauses 50% tariffs on goods from Canada, says two sides have a deal - Reuters

USA - Canada - Trade

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Canada 🇨🇦 Trade minister

USA 🇺🇸 response

Steel , Aluminum , Auto 🛺 parts

Planning , Design, create opportunities

Still too many room available around the world

Planning need new brains 🧠

Trump’s vaccine overhaul is ‘going to impact Canada.’ Here’s how

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Hi everyone,

I posted Trendsly here about two weeks ago, and honestly I expected a few brand suggestions and maybe a bug report or two.

Instead, you gave me a pretty serious wishlist 😅

You asked for size and audience filters, clearer Made in Canada evidence, a better distinction between brands and retailers, better screenshot search, and an explanation of what happens to saved data. You also sent me a huge list of smaller Canadian labels I had missed.

I went through the comments one by one and ended up changing a lot more than I planned.

The directory now has 235 verified Canadian fashion entries. I also rebuilt the brand page because a lot of you were right that the claims were not clear enough.

Canadian-founded, Canadian-owned, Canadian-based, and Made in Canada now mean different things on Trendsly. Each claim links to the evidence behind it, and Made in Canada only appears when there is product-level origin information.

Search can now be narrowed by audience, sizing system, size, category, price, availability, sale status, and manufacturing origin.

Screenshot search is also a lot less clumsy now. You can select one garment, correct its category, crop another area, search the full image, or split an outfit into as many as four pieces.

Somehow, I also ended up with a Chrome extension in beta.

What I like most is that Trendsly is finally starting to feel like the thing I originally wanted it to be: somewhere to start when you want to support Canadian fashion but do not already know all the right brand names.

Canada has so many great smaller labels. A lot of them are just surprisingly difficult to find unless somebody tells you about them. If Trendsly can make that a little easier—or introduce one shopper to a label they otherwise would have missed—that feels worth continuing.

The attached image shows what the brand page actually looks like now. It has A–Z discovery, filters for region and brand type, clearer evidence explanations, and separate ways to explore Canadian-founded, Made in Canada, and Indigenous-owned or founded labels.

The full experience is available in Canadian French. There is no registration, saved items remain in your browser, and search rankings are not sponsored.

If you try it, please give it one real job. Search for something you actually need, upload a screenshot, or try finding something in your size.

If it gets the answer wrong, tell me exactly what you searched. That is honestly more useful than just hearing that it looks good.

And if I am still missing a Canadian label, send me its official website and any origin evidence you can find.

Try it here: https://trendsly.ca

Brand directory: https://trendsly.ca/brands

Thank you again. I definitely have a bad habit of trying to improve everything at once, but the list you gave me was genuinely useful.

why we have quotas

Canada added 75,000 jobs in July, up 0.4 per cent, as the unemployment rate fell to 6.4 per cent, its lowest level in two years.

Statistics Canada's labour force survey released on Friday said most of those gains were split between full- and part-time work, as wholesale and retail trade alone added 21,000 new jobs.

Ontario added the most jobs of any province in July, with 52,000, or an increase of 0.6 per cent, mostly in the professional, scientific and technical services sector. British Columbia had a similar increase, with 18,000 new jobs.

Meanwhile, the US, whose stated goal has been to use economic force to bring about the annexation of Canada, has lost 23,000 jobs over the same period.

I love backcountry camping (BC), but finding freeze‑dried meals I can actually eat has been a challenge. I have several dietary restrictions (vegan, gluten‑free, soy‑free, low‑FODMAP, and not spicy), and a lot of the commercial freeze‑dried meals end up being too spicy or contain ingredients I can’t tolerate. After too many trips where I could barely eat my dinner, I’m now looking at making my own meals from freeze‑dried ingredients.

The problem is: finding freeze‑dried vegetables in Canada feels like searching for a needle in a haystack. I’m specifically looking for things like kale, spinach, shredded carrots, etc., in small quantities (not in powder form) with reasonable shipping. So far I’ve run into several obstacles: sites that don’t work, places that only sell bulk, US stores, items sold out, shops that only sell candy or vegetable powders, or shipping fees that are too high for my budget. I don’t want to commit to a huge bag of something only to discover I don’t like it.

Grains, proteins, and fruits are much easier. For example, I really like the instant quinoa from Nomad Nutrition, and the mycelium‑based protein from Maia Farms works great for me. I add vegetable broth from Fody, and at that point all I’m missing are some veggies. Freeze‑dried berries for oatmeal are easy to find. It’s just the greens and carrots that are giving me trouble.

Does anyone have Canadian suggestions for freeze‑dried greens or shredded carrots (not powders) that won’t break the bank? Small quantities preferred!