I was specifically talking about https://co-op.crs/, a chain of cooperative grocery stores and gas stations through western Canada. However, that seems to be a good list of other coops worth taking a look at!

I live in Alberta so I can’t say much on the front of where to live.

When a lot of Canadians say they hate the US (including myself) we are more so saying that we hate the government, not everyone living there. I fully welcome any Americans who want to come to Canada with open arms to escape what is going on down south and I highly doubt you will face much bias being from the US.

As for businesses, I have started to use co-op a lot more especially for gas. I don’t know how many there are in BC, but we have them everywhere here in Alberta. It’s a Canadian co-operative association and you can get a membership to your local co-op for $5 CAD (it isn’t required to shop there but you do get equity and money back on every purchase you make)

I imagine it certainly is. If I didn’t land what I am doing now that takes up all my time I was going to try to join the reserves

You know not everything on the internet is necessarily directed at you

It’s easier to wage an imaginary culture war than it is to try to make any real changes

All this “””global warming””” bs is climate extremism! /s

It’s so bad that the temperature where I live (Edmonton, Alberta) barely gets below freezing during winter when it should be around -15 to -20C in December and January. Last winter, we barely had snows save a few snowstorms. Every summer, the city fills with smoke from yearly wildfires and it gets hard to breathe.

The climate was never like this in the last 10 years, yet people still say climate change isn’t human caused or doesn’t exist

China and the DPRK are oppressive, authoritarian states, and we should defend Ukraine’s right to self determination. I guess that completely nullifies my socialist beliefs because I don’t blindly love every government that brands itself as communist

I feel like we’re going to see an increase in this hate-filled, scapegoating rhetoric that the Republican party won votes with. All we can do now though is try to fight this kind of stuff here in Canada and try to avoid becoming the atates