This App Helps You Find Asian-Owned Businesses To Support In Canada

There's a lot of them!
Asian-Owned Businesses In Canada Can Be Found With This App
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If you want to support businesses in Canada, specifically Asian-owned ones, there's an app that can help you find a bunch of them.

Shopify's mobile shopping assistant app Shop now has a new feature that helps you discover and shop from Asian-owned brands.

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In the app, you just have to go to the shopping tab and then you'll see a tappable section that takes you to a list of Asian-owned businesses you can shop from.

There are 60 brands featured with this including Canadian ones like Vessi, Moo Shu Ice Cream & Kitchen, Theresa Duong Arts, I'll Know It When I See It, Asom and MXPC.

Following shootings in the U.S. that killed Asian women, the federal government spoke out against anti-Asian racism and Jagmeet Singh said Canada isn't immune to that kind of hate.

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  • Lisa Belmonte

    Senior Writer

    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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