Wouldn't it be great if your phone could just magically tell you whether the products you want to buy are Canadian or not?

If you catch Sasha Ivanov at the supermarket these days, chances are he'll be snapping a photo of something on the store's shelves.

“We thought it was a good idea to have a centralized database where you could scan any product and know if it’s Canadian.” The resulting app, Buy Beaver, was launched soon after and quickly ...

For example, users can identify the largest exports from each Canadian province to the US and top trading partners by state. The Buy Beaver app, previously known as IsItFromCanada.ca, launched on Feb.