A lot of us are moving to Canada from the USA. I’m attempting to put together a list of Canadian equivalents of things we have come to rely on in the USA.
USA | Canada |
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NPR | CBC (See @am1’s answer) |
Walmart/ALDI/Costco | Walmart and Costco both are here. Real Canadian Superstore is Canada’s version of Walmart |
Grocery Stores (Safeway/Trader Joes/WholeFoods) | Loblaws, Farm Boy (kinda like Trader Joes), Sobeys, Metro, Whole Foods, No Frills (cheaper version of Loblaws), Food Basic (cheaper version of Metro) |
Online Delivery: Instacart, Google Express, Amazon, Doordash, Uber Eats | Instacart, Amazon, Voila (for groceries), Fresh City Farms (grocery delivery in Toronto), Mama Earth Organics (Organic groceries in Toronto), SkipThe Dishes (food delivery), UberEats, Doordash |
Enterprise/Hertz/National car rental | |
Pharmacy (CVS/Walgreens) | Shoppers Drug Mart, Rexall, London Drugs |
Discount Tire | |
PBS | CBC |
REI | MEC |
USPS | Canada Post |
Banks (BofA, Chase, Capital One) | RBC, BMO, CIBC, Scotia Bank, TD, Tangerine (See @siddEE’s answer) |
Zelle (local $ transfers), Western Union, Remitly, Xoom (international remittance) | Interac-e-transfer (local), Xoom etc. (international) (See @siddEE’s answer) |
Phone networks (TMobile, AT&T etc. also Ting, Republic Wireless, Cricket, Google Fi etc.) | Rogers, Bell, Telus, also: Fido, Virgin Mobile, Koodo, Chatr, Public, Lucky, Freedom Mobile (See @siddEE’s answer) |
Broadband internet (Spectrum, Xfinity, Comcast) | FiberStream, Beanfield, Bell, Rogers, Teksavvy |
Craigslist | Kijiji (Though Craigslist also exists but Kijiji is more widely used) |