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CTV News
2 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
‘Buy local' momentum leads to business growth in Nova Scotia
Paul Hollingsworth has the story of a small Maritime business specializing in locally produced food reaping the benefits of the 'Buy Canada' movement. The owner of O'Bees Farm Market in Dartmouth, N.S. calls his business a made-in-the-Maritimes success story. 'I started out in 2009, and I started very small, with one table at the city market on Saturdays,' said Ian O'Brien. Sixteen years later, O'Brien's once small business has now grown into a permanent store, crammed with locally produced food, as his new, expanded store opened on Wednesday. According to O'Brien, when Donald Trump threatened tariffs and many Canadians turned their backs on U.S. made products, his business was perfectly positioned to offer customers what they wanted to buy. 'Ninety-nine per cent of the products that I have in my store are either from Nova Scotia or the Maritimes,' said O'Brien. 'It was easy to say, 'buy local', because we are local.' Shoppers like Pam Hayhurst agree. When the trade war ramped up, her shopping habits changed, and she said she is not alone. 'I definitely think there has been an awakening for that,' said Hayhurst. 'I know for myself, I like the idea of supporting local people, but knowing that everything that is going on with Trump, it is a way of helping the broader view. 'I know it's fresh and I know I am helping out the local farmers and I feel better about contributing to my community,' she added. The growth in the 'buy local' trend comes at a time when the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses has given Nova Scotia the highest score when it comes to removing internal trade barriers, which helps promote the sale of goods and services that are produced in Canada. 'I'm thrilled Nova Scotia is being recognized for making things better for businesses and workers,' said N.S. Premier Tim Houston in a news release. 'I hope it continues to encourage other provinces and territories to join us and make free trade a reality, nationwide.' Dartmouth business advocate Tim Rissesco believes the trend of supporting local businesses is just in its opening stages and he predicts more growth soon. 'People simply want to buy Canadian,' said Rissesco. 'People want to know where their food is coming from, people are looking for the quality and it is a source of national pride.' Which means business operators like Ian O'Brien can likely expect even more food sales and success, as the 'buy local' trend continues to gain momentum across Canada.
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
BuyCanadianGroup.ca Announces First All-Canadian Online Department Store
TORONTO, June 25, 2025 /CNW/ - Canadians eager to support local now have a new way to discover and buy home–grown products. is the country's first online department store featuring exclusively Canadian brands. Shoppers can explore a curated catalogue of Canadian products and complete a one–click, multi–brand checkout—knowing every dollar stays in Canada. Early momentum is strong: new brands are joining every day, including Pluck Tea, Maker's Clean by cleaning expert Melissa Maker, and Indigenous–owned Cheekbone Beauty. Thousands of Canadians have pre–registered, and leading domestic investors have already provided seed funding. "Eighty–five percent of Canadians are actively looking for Canadian alternatives. Catalogues and directories aren't enough. Canada needs a new department store—one that features all Canadian brands," said Dave Lazar, Founder of Buy Canadian Group. "We give shoppers an easy way to fill their cart and know they're buying Canadian." Product discovery is supercharged with Buy Canadian TV, a shoppable video destination where Canadian personalities and creators help shoppers discover Canadian alternatives in live streams and replays with on-screen shopping. Brands, meanwhile, can connect with consumers who are now looking to discover Canadian products. Powered by Canadian live shopping platform Stage TEN, launch shows feature Melissa Maker (Clean My Space, 2.1 million YouTube subscribers) and Harley Morenstein (Epic Meal Time, 6.7 million subscribers). Partnerships with Digital First Canada and Andromedia Distribution will soon make 8,000 + hours of Canadian video fully shoppable with Canadian products. is currently welcoming applications from Canadian–owned brands of all sizes and offers one–click onboarding for the more than 110,000 Canadian Shopify merchants. About Canadian Group is building the first all-Canadian online department store to make it easy for Canadians to discover and buy Canadian goods in a single checkout experience. SOURCE Buy Canadian Group Inc. View original content to download multimedia: Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Made in Canada products: A complete guide to buying Canadian brands at the grocery store — food, drinks and more
After more than three months of navigating tariffs and subsequent price increases, many Canadians are still choosing to put their money behind home grown and manufactured goods. As tariff discussions continue to unfold between Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump, a whopping 95 per cent of more than 9,900 Yahoo Canada readers who voted in a recent poll said that they want to buy Canadian products whenever possible, while only four per cent said the issue didn't concern them. 'I fully intend to buy Canadian and leave American products on the shelves. Most people I know, as well as my family members, are all insisting that they will continue to restrict their purchases to Canadian products even if Trump does not impose tariffs,' a Yahoo Canada reader said earlier this year via e-mail. 'The threat of the punitive tariffs is enough. I will never buy American." 'One option to push back on our American bullies is when we can't find a Canadian alternative, to buy Mexican in solidarity with our true allies — especially when it comes to our groceries," said another. "Failing that, [we can] buy anything other than American - we have lots of choices." "I was always conscientious about Canadian products but now I'm going to be laser-focused on it especially at the grocery store,' a Yahoo Canada reader said. Click here to jump right to our list of Canadian grocery brands By shopping Canadian products and brands, consumers in Canada are exempt from tariffs, which means potentially saving money. Plus, there's the added benefit of supporting Canadian manufacturers who may be impacted by the U.S. import tariffs. Some grocery stores have opted to label Canadian made products with a Canadian flag next to its price tag to help conscious shoppers. Here are some other ways to tell if a product is made in Canada: Look for a "Product of Canada" label This label means that approximately 98 per cent of ingredients, processing and labour used to produce the product areCanadian. According to the Government of Canada, products that claim to be "Canadian" are considered the same as "Product of Canada."Check for "Made in Canada" labels When products are labelled as "Made in Canada" it means that a majority of the product's last substantial transformation occurred in Canada. A substantial transformation of a product would include combining ingredients to create a new product. For example, ingredients like eggs, sugar and butter undergo a substantial transformation to produce cookies. A product can also have a "Made in Canada" label if a majority (at least 51 per cent) of the costs incurred in manufacturing or producing the goods were incurred in Canada even if some ingredients are from other countries. Some packages may include qualifiers to ensure that the consumer knows some ingredients were imported from other countries. Examples of qualifiers can include: Distilled in Canada Refined in Canada Packaged in Canada Processed in Canada Look for 100% claims All ingredients, processing and labour for the product (and all of its components) are from Canada. If you're someone choosing to shop consciously given the tariffs, we've gathered a helpful list of Canadian brands and those manufactured in Canada to help you on your next grocery shop. ADL Agropur Arla's Foods Black Diamond Blakwell Dairy Bothwell Cheese Chapman's Cheez Whiz (manufactured in Canada) Daiya Eagle Brand Earth's Own D. Dutchmen Farms Danone ( brands Activia, Oikos and Danone all prepared in Canada) La Fromagerie Kapuskoise Gay Lea Grass Root Dairies Halo Top Hewitt's Island Farms Laiterie de Caoticook Lactancia Kawartha Dairy Keenan Farms Kraft Singles (manufactured in Canada) Miller's Dairy Natrel Philadelphia Cream Cheese (manufactured in Canada) Saputo Shaw Ice Cream Sheldon Creek Dairy Silani Cheese Slate River Dairy Skotidakis St. Albert Cheese Factory Tre Stelle Triple 'A' Cheese Thunder Oak Cheese Farm Upper Canada Creamery Gunn's Hill Artisan Cheese Dainty Natura Billy Bee Honey Club House Doyon Honey Crave (desserts and dry ingredients) E.D. Smith Jam Ferrero Five Roses Flour No Name Redpath Sugar Robin Hood Flour Shiriff Dr. Oetker You may want to support these Canadian brands and products brewed in Canada: 13th Street Arizona Hard Tea Brasseur de Montreal Blue Moon Black Horse Bohemian Canadian Club Carling Collective Arts Coors Edge Coors Seltzer Coors Light Coors Original Copper Rose Vodka Creemore Springs Crown Royal Dillons Dominion Ale Fine Company Beer Forty Creek Granville Island Brewing Georgian Bay Hop Valley Brewing India Beer Keystone Labatt Blue Laurentide Le Trou du Diable Mad Jack Madrí Excepcional Miller Genuine Draft Miller Lite Miller High Life Molson Canadian Molson Canadian Cold Shot Molson Dry Molson Exel Molson Export Molson Ultra Molson XXX Moosehead Vienna O'Keefe Old Style Pilsner Redstone Rickard's Simply Spiked Sol Tawse Vizzy Hard Seltzer You may want to support these Canadian brands and products manufactured in Canada: Arva Flour Mills Casa Mendoza Country Harvest D'Italiano Dempsters (manufactured in Canada) Dimpflmeier Bakery Gadoua Goh Goh Cereal Grandma Emily Holy Crap Cereal K2 Milling La Milanaise Little Northern Bakehouse NorQuin Nature's Path O'Doughs One Degree Organics Rogers Rudolph's Bakeries Sunny Boy Foods Sunny Crunch Foods Stone Mill Bakehouse Yumi Organics Wonder (manufactured in Canada) Brandt Meats Direct Plus Food Group: Grimm's Fine Foods, McSweeney's Country Prime Meats, Saporé Foods Freybye Greenfield Nautural Meat Co. Harvest Meats Lou's Kitchen Maple Leaf Foods Salumeria il Tagliere Sofina Foods: Janes, Lilydale, Mastro, San Daniele, Riserva, Cuddy, Vienna, Fletcher's, Zamzam Tony's Meats Audrey's Patisserie Camino Chocolate Celebration Cookies Covered Bridge Krack-O-Pop Dare Foods Ganong Chocolates Georgian Bay Granola Company Hardbite Hawkins Cheezies Hippie Snacks Hummingbird Chocolate Humpty Dumpty Inno Foods Johnvince FoodsP Kerrs Canady La Cocina Tortilla Chips La Montagne Chocolates Lady Sarah Cookies Laura Secord Chocolates Leclerc Made Good Foods Maple Leaf CookiesA MDR Nomz Old Dutch OMG! Peace by Chocolate Purdy's Chocolate Ronnie's Original Jumbo Seeds Ross Chocolates Skippy's Kettlecorn Sun-Rype Uncle Bob's Popcorn Voortman Zak Organics Food Alymer Accents Buster Rhino BBQ Sauce French's Mustard (prepared in Canada) Fire in the Kitchen Greetalia Foods GoBio! Organics Heartbeat Hot Sauce Kozlik's Canadian Mustard Kraft Heinz Canada (manufactured in Canada) Little Creek (Salad Dressings) Lord's Hot Sauce PEI Sea Salt Co. Peppermaster Hot Sauces Renées Ro*Tel Silk Road Spices Spice of Life Selections The Ketchup Project Vancouver Sea Salt Windsor Salt Balzac's Coffee Roasters Bean North Roasting Beaver Rock Roastery Coastal Coffee Company Fratello Coffee Roasters Grounded Coffee Company Jumping Bean Coffee Just Us Coffee Laughing Whale Midnight Sun Coffee Roasters Muskoka Roastery Coffee Co. Nabob Salt Spring Coffee Salt Spring Coffee Kintore Coffee Co. Van Houtte 3 Teas Amoda Tea Auras Teas Blue Teapot Capital Tea ChaNoir Citizen Tea David's Tea Distincly Tea Escarpment Gardens Four O'Clock Teas Just Tea Premium Tea Red Rose Tea Shanti Tea Tea Desire Tea Santa Tealchemy Tealish The Naked Leaf The Tea Haus Four O'Clock Teas AlJuice Allen's Alphonso Apple & Eve Clearly Canadian Fairly Fruit Graves Great Value Happy Parent Hydra+ Kiju bilogique Naya Bottled Water Northland Oasis Old Orchard Old South PC Cola Rougemont Ruby Kist SunRype Switch The Pop Shoppe Walter Caesar Whistler Water Note: Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have manufacturing facilities in Canada, but are not Canadian brands. Arctic Gardens (manufactured in Canada) Compliments Cavendish Farms Green Giant (manufactured in Canada) Conscious High Liner Goods M&M Foods McCain Foods Nature's Path President's Choice Support Canadian pet food brands like: Arcana Canadian Naturals Nutram Pet Food Open Farm Orijen Cat Fo Oven Baked Tradition Bonterra Cascades Cashmere Purex Royale Scotties Sponge Towels Tru Earth Nature Clean
CBS News
01-06-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Baltimore Farmer's Market vendors find support, personal connections from customers
More than 160 vendors gather each week at the Baltimore Farmer's Market under the underpass at Jones Falls Expressway to offer homemade and homegrown products. Local produce, pastries, crafts, and other products are sold from 7 a.m. until noon each Sunday from April through December. "We're going to have corn next week, and then we'll be getting into tomatoes and watermelons and cantaloupes, and everything will be full swing," said Stave Knopp, owner of Knopp's Farm on the Shore. Personal connections at the Farmer's Market Knopp will tell you farming isn't just a job to him, but rather his crops are rooted in tradition. "This isn't just like a business or not just a market, this is like family," Knopp said. "I've been coming here since I was two. This isn't just any old regular day, this is family." Knopp's parents sold produce at the Baltimore Farmer's Market before he was born, so he grew up pulling a wagon up and down the aisles. Now, he runs the stand himself. "I know a lot of the customers, I've known their grandparents, now I'm meeting their children," Knopp said. "I'm meeting their grandchildren. I'm telling my age now, but it's really awesome, it's very special." Those personal connections with shoppers keep them coming back. "We really just try to support the local folks who live here as much as we can. If we're not going to, who is?" said customer Jason Ward. Supporting local businesses Delaney Cate, the farmer's market's manager, told WJZ she enjoys watching Marylanders support each other through the Baltimore Farmer's Market. "You get to kind of see the city and the area wake up in a way," Cate said. "It's a great idea to keep money in the community. If you're shopping local, you've also got folks that live here that are being hired to vend." Vendors say what you get at the Baltimore Farmer's Market is not just a vegetable off a shelf, it's also an interpersonal experience. "When you come here, you're talking to the farmer, you're talking to me," Knopp said. "It's know your farmer, know your food."
CBC
22-05-2025
- Business
- CBC
Kitchener launches Love Local online pop-up shop
On Wednesday, Kitchener launched the Love Local Pop-up Shop in partnership with local business Civilian Screen Printing. The move is part of the city's plan to minimize the impact tariffs have on the local community and economy. Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic told CBC K-W's John Dalusong how the initiative was a response to requests from community members who wanted to show love and support for the City of Kitchener.
