{"id":78038,"date":"2026-08-29T06:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/if-its-made-in-the-us-i-dont-buy-it-canadians-on-boycotting-trumps-america\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T06:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:55:13","slug":"if-its-made-in-the-us-i-dont-buy-it-canadians-on-boycotting-trumps-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/if-its-made-in-the-us-i-dont-buy-it-canadians-on-boycotting-trumps-america\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If it\u2019s made in the US, I don\u2019t buy it\u2019: Canadians on boycotting Trump\u2019s America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avoiding US goods and services \u2013 from tech to whisky to air travel \u2013 has forced many to find a new way of living<\/p>\n<p>For William McDonald, 38, a diesel mechanic from Thunder Bay, Ontario, \u201cCanadian is always the first choice,\u201d even if it means his weekly bills are higher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as Trump started putting those tariffs on in February [last year], I started boycotting US goods,\u201d he said. \u201cAvoiding American products has driven my costs up, and I\u2019m still happy to do it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/aug\/29\/if-its-made-in-the-us-i-dont-buy-it-canadians-on-boycotting-trumps-america\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoiding US goods and services \u2013 from tech to whisky to air travel \u2013 has forced many to find a new way of living For William McDonald, 38, a diesel mechanic from Thunder Bay, Ontario, \u201cCanadian is always the first choice,\u201d even if it means his weekly bills are higher. \u201cAs soon as Trump started &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018If it\u2019s made in the US, I don\u2019t buy it\u2019: Canadians on boycotting Trump\u2019s America\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/if-its-made-in-the-us-i-dont-buy-it-canadians-on-boycotting-trumps-america\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018If it\u2019s made in the US, I don\u2019t buy it\u2019: Canadians on boycotting Trump\u2019s America\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}