Featured Made in Canada

[turbozig]

I just read this on Linkedin, fantastic! Please post any great new made in Canada products you find. Let's keep it up and make Canada great again.

 

[AndrewJ]

Thanks for posting!

"the times they are a changin" ...many many more great stories like this will come about in the next few weeks and months and will be a big factor why we can get back to some normalcy sooner rather than later

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Great story Ziggy. We have some very innovative and talented people in this country they will rise to the top.

 

[EJChevy]

I'm a little confused about the message being presented here...

Are we celebrating and suggesting more people make N-95 masks in Canada, or that we should have more manufacturing happening in Canada.

If it's the latter, then this image does not say "we are making more in Canada!" because the guy in the picture already has a manufacturing facility in Canada that was already manufacturing products in Canada. There's no more being made here than before he re-tooled his plant to manufacture N-95 masks.


Just sayin'.

 

[Cariboocreek]

I think the point was that these vital products, required in the public interest, be manufactured in Canada. Further, our reliance on foreign manufacturing needs to end.

I for one will pay more for three words, “Made in Canada”. Even made in a North America.

 

[Rruuff Day]

Damn it.... Now there will be shortage of pillows and dog beds....

 

[ddgermann]

I'm a little confused about the message being presented here...

Are we celebrating and suggesting more people make N-95 masks in Canada, or that we should have more manufacturing happening in Canada.

If it's the latter, then this image does not say "we are making more in Canada!" because the guy in the picture already has a manufacturing facility in Canada that was already manufacturing products in Canada. There's no more being made here than before he re-tooled his plant to manufacture N-95 masks.


Just sayin'.

You are splitting hairs there Mr. Positive.

Just sayin'

wow

 

[Black 03 Z06]

I'm a little confused about the message being presented here...

Are we celebrating and suggesting more people make N-95 masks in Canada, or that we should have more manufacturing happening in Canada.

If it's the latter, then this image does not say "we are making more in Canada!" because the guy in the picture already has a manufacturing facility in Canada that was already manufacturing products in Canada. There's no more being made here than before he re-tooled his plant to manufacture N-95 masks.


Just sayin'.

You are splitting hairs there Mr. Positive.

Just sayin'

wow

The other night on CTV they ran a story on a fellow who owned an automotive body shop/custom detail company. The owner saw the need for a plexiglass box that what fit over a patients upper body when doctors were inserting a breathing tube for the ventilator. The insertion of the tube causes the patient to involuntarily cough spreading the infection. The box was designed to contain that while allowing the doctor to work on the patient with access holes made in the box. He took it to the folks who could use it for testing and suggestions to make improvements. It worked, he was going to start producing more.

So like the fellow making dog beds and pillows he saw a need and had the ability to innovate and adapt to manufacture a needed product. In these cases a humanitarian products. It should and is a point of pride that Canadians have those abilities.

So sorry Eric I don't get your point at all. Maybe I am missing something.

 

[turbozig]

You are splitting hairs there Mr. Positive.

Just sayin'

wow

I totally agree @ddgermann. This thread was meant to be positive about Canadians and our great country. It is very sad how some people can take something and blow it out of context. Right now I thought some positivity would be great for everyone to share upon. There is enough negativity and dispair in the world right now, let's try to focus on the good in people. Comments like that definately won't gain any sales or referals, just sayin'. Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

 

[Tourmax]

Interesting. My understand with the 3m style N95 masks was there are issues getting enough of the electrostatic non-woven polypropylene fiber to produce masks. As I understand it, there are only a few manufacturers that produce this specific polyprop fiber and it's hard to get right now (for obvious reasons). I was reading an article the other day how companies in China have sucked up most of the global supply of those poly fibers and everyone else is now having a hard time sourcing it as a result of China "stockpiling" it. Strangely enough, Chinese companies now seem to have lots of them to sell around the world......

Surgical masks are one thing, they're mean to keep the surgeons from contaminating the patient so they don't have to adhere to the N95 rating. The N95 masks are, however, a different story.

You can't just make them out of any old fiber or they are not as effective as the 3M style N95 masks. That could be a very big problem if our health workers are going into an area where they think they can depend on their PPE to protect them and it might not be "up to snuff".

I do, however, wholeheartedly agree there needs to be "in country" manufacturing of these types of critical medical supplies. That includes the materials needed to make them as well. I honestly don't even care if we need to subsidize companies to make manufacturing these supplies possible. We need it, find a way to get it done, damn the costs, end of discussion.

Honestly, I'd like to see Canada wake up as a nation and rather than just exporting raw materials, start exporting finished goods. Really, whats the point of selling crude oil, raw timber (or whatever you want to look at) to other nations and then turn around and import finished goods made from those materials. It just seems so......well, I guess it seems to me like we are being taken advantage of by every other country in the world and being a "resource exporter" means we will always be at the mercy of some other country when we hit times like these. Not to mention, you get far more income/benefit/employment from exporting finished goods than you do from raw materials.

There was a time when Canada had a greater desire to stand on our own two feet than rely on others. I'd like to see that mindset come back around......

 

[kerry4]

Look at all the jobs Trudeau can brag that he created in the medical supply industry.

 

[12cents]

Tourmax I wholeheartedly agree with you. Unfortunately there is the greed part of the equation on both sides. Some manufacturers charge an arm and a leg for various reasons (some under their control and some not) and the consumer wants to spend as little as possible but still expect the same quality as we can produce in Canada. Where did we go wrong as a nation in general????????

 

[Cariboocreek]

Tourmax I wholeheartedly agree with you. Unfortunately there is the greed part of the equation on both sides. Some manufacturers charge an arm and a leg for various reasons (some under their control and some not) and the consumer wants to spend as little as possible but still expect the same quality as we can produce in Canada. Where did we go wrong as a nation in general????????

Pearson, Lester B

 

[Tourmax]

Tourmax I wholeheartedly agree with you. Unfortunately there is the greed part of the equation on both sides. Some manufacturers charge an arm and a leg for various reasons (some under their control and some not) and the consumer wants to spend as little as possible but still expect the same quality as we can produce in Canada. Where did we go wrong as a nation in general????????

Confederation....worst thing to ever happen to NS. I would argue worst thing to ever happen to all the provinces comprising Atlantic Canada.......

 

[Rruuff Day]

Confederation....worst thing to ever happen to NS. I would argue worst thing to ever happen to all the provinces comprising Atlantic Canada.......

So run for Premier, have a referendum for separation and remove the province from confederation. A good start would be not accepting the $3.43 billion dollar transfer payment Nova Scotia gets every year... just sayin.

 

[Tourmax]

So run for Premier, have a referendum for separation and remove the province from confederation. A good start would be not accepting the $3.43 billion dollar transfer payment Nova Scotia gets every year... just sayin.

oh piss off with that.

when Ns joined confederation, we were the wealthiest “province”.

Then, the “gov’t” of Canada started raping us to finance the foundation of Canada. That included building the western provinces. Alberta didn’t even exist when NS joined confederation, it was part of the north west territories. Forming Canada is what paved the way for Alberta to exist. Shortly after, exactly what Joseph Howe said what would happen did: NS was sucked dry, marginalized and forgotten.

If we want to have a country, we need to develop a better national “memory” of where we came from, not just whats happening right now.

So yeah, when you guys out west start up with that “transfer payments” crap, it pisses me off and for good reason. You’re not the only ones the federal gov’t has screwed. But NS was screwed back in the 1800’s and every generation has paid the price for enabling canada (and the west) to exist ever since.

also, “just saying” is nothing but another way of admitting something is ignorant and inflammatory without actually admitting it. but it doesn’t hide anything and its quite obvious what it means.

 

[Cariboocreek]

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[rockitman]

I thought your post was well intended Ziggy.

 

[Rruuff Day]

You know your history Tour. I will give you that. No disrespect to you meant. My wife is also Albertan and agrees with your statement of NS getting screwed in the 1800's.

 

[Cariboocreek]

Two things can be correct at the same time. NS was screwed but so was Alberta.
This is exactly why confederation needs to be “re-imagined”.