Alright I’m going to need all of your suggestions as this is the project I’m working on right now.

A bought a small townhouse in Ontario 7 months ago and I have a tiny yard.

The yard had mostly grass, but had a little bit of moss, crab grass, and clover. There is a small garden, and many dirt patches in the yard.

I have spread clover seed in the yard, especially in the dirt patches.

Then I weeded the garden area, removed about half the rocks but left some in the garden, I have my mother coming over next month to help me pick local garden flowers, and I had to pull a tiny tree out because it was planted right beside the foundation of the building and would eventually cause damage.

What else should be added to the lawn? Should I be pulling out the crabgrass? What wildflowers are native to Ontario?

…We can’t keep doing this. Why do people still so consistently vote to destroy the environment?

Let’s focus on things that don’t dedicate us to a tip-based economy.

To my knowledge, the only change to tips we need is that if your tips are put into a pool to be spread amongst the staff, which is a common practice in restaurants so that the chefs and dishwashers get tips, then the owner can’t include themself in the people to get paid from that pool.

I dated a girl for a while in Ottawa where the owner was taking a huge cut of her tips that way.

Hi I’m an indie dev in Ottawa.

Some of my friends created a website where you can find Ottawa made video games and Ottawa indie game companies.

https://www.ottawagames.info/

I also hate to link to reddit now, but months ago there was a reddit post with a big list of Canadian devs and games.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/comments/1iku9sm/canadian_game_designers_to_support/

Some more notes

Cuphead - The main team is Toronto based, but all the coders were here in Ottawa. Some of which I went to school with. https://store.steampowered.com/app/268910/Cuphead/

Tunic - I believe they are all Canadian. At least one of the dev’s is a local to Ottawa. https://tunicgame.com/

Spring Falls - By Eric. I remember seeing the early demo’s of this at our local game dev event. https://www.springfallsgame.com/

Gataela - By Paige who is really nice. She helps curate the first link I sent. https://www.gataela.com/

Spectrum Break - A game I released solo before joining Skypyre. https://spectrumbreak.com/

We’ve had a few phone app game companies spring up around Ottawa but I honestly have no idea if they survived the pandemic. I haven’t seen Magmic in a long time and I recall them not doing too well.

I’m also pretty sure Balatro is Canadian.

I believe the Momodora series is based in Toronto, as is the developer who made Mount Your Friends but you would have to verifiy both.

Another big name are the developers are Warframe. They are based here in Canada.

King of the Hat was by an indie team from somewhere in Ontario. It’s too bad I haven’t had the chance to see them at an event in a while. I hope they’re doing well. https://kingofthehat.com/

We have a handful of local meetups so everyone tends to know each other.

I am part of Skypyre Studios, as is Matt who is one of the 2 people running the website. We’re 10 friends who release games together.

The largest Studio is SnowedIn. They only have 1 game listed but they do a lot of contract work for studios like Ubisoft. Last I checked they had 50+ employees.

The most recognizable is Steelcrate games who made Don’t Talk and Nobody Explodes for VR headsets… originally at a local college game jam.

Another cool indie Studio is Breakfall. Who have 3-4 game’s listed. They’re currently making their own engine.

And there are numerous local indie’s who have made a game solo.

Check out https://www.ottawagames.info/

It’s an Ottawa website run by my friend’s Matt and Paige, and they chronicle all of our community’s games and developers.

It should have all the links you need.

Here in Canada I’ve started ordering from the Canadian Tire app instead.

USA dairy isn’t getting tariff’d. That’s actually misinformation.

The Canadian government has a system where if the market is flooded with over a certain amount of dairy, those crazy tariff numbers kick in.

In the past decade, the US has not been able to export enough to come close to flooding our market, so their dairy isn’t heavily tariff’d.

Basically Trump is whining about a non-problem because he can’t read.