Unfortunately haven’t, I don’t rely on any of my personal domains for email.
I did just re-check to see if the email forwarding was working correctly, and it is – but if it was failing sporadically I’m not sure I would even notice because my usage of it is so minimal.
For what it’s worth, I did need to use their email support once and they were very pleasant and easy to work with.
I moved my domains over to EasyDNS.ca because they are supported by both letsencrypt and acme.sh — happy with their service so far and zero complaints.
I feel you on that. I’ve been on a bit of a tear myself, spilling thousands of words on this site and Reddit and Bluesky in various posts and comments.
This is super cool. And you’ve inspired this Canadian to start moving more payments to Interac. Love the message and I’m on board.
My suggestion to accompany this with policy is not an alternative to taking personal action, but complementary.
One piece of constructive feedback on the artwork— it might be helpful to stress the positive aspect front and centre. For example lead with Interac with a maple leaf, and the American systems in lower prominence by having them 2/3 sized and positioned below.
Please don’t misconstrue my feedback in your mind as an attempt to distract or demoralize you through bike-shedding or anything like that. You’re doing great stuff and it’s inspiring.
You’re correct that it’s a monopoly, but the point I’m trying to make is that because of the network effect the monopoly will be difficult to unseat without accompanying policy.
I’m on board for this but this proposal is up against a familiar devil: the network effect.
Shops support Visa and Mastercard because customers use them, customers use them because shops support them. This creates a powerful network that is extremely difficult for an upstart to unseat.
So while it’s a good idea to encourage people to take individual action on this — and you’re doing a great job doing so, and I’m taking it to heart for my own actions — we also need to accompany this with a policy solution to help overcome the network effect.
They will choose the cheapest option which should generally be Interac.
Yup.
Read the news: they aren’t giving Canadians special treatment any longer. The awful way they’ve treated visitors from the rest of the world for decades is how they treat us now.
They don’t want us there. If you make a mistake they will literally put you in chains and detain you for weeks.
Just don’t go.
I really don’t want to give Loblaws the benefit of the doubt because they absolutely have not earned it.
But also, there’s a solid logic in telling people which items are affected and to explain why the prices went up. I want to know what items went up so I can avoid them — I try to check labels but having this is helpful not harmful.
I’m not going to pretend that Loblaws is doing this to help me, but I’m not going to fight it either.
When it was just about tariffs I cut back on purchases from American-made goods and from American companies.
But once the seriousness of the sovereignty threat became more apparent I moved that to full scorched earth on my shopping lists. A company like Costco that treats its employees decently well? Nope, even they get the boot. Not just groceries — American media products, household goods, service companies, tech products — as much as I possibly can.
In the end it’s surprising how little they are actually needed.