You want one of these pot blasters. Available at Princess Auto but it's rather pricey at $350. I have one that is pretty much identical that I got a HF for about 1/2 that. 'Course, the border closure precludes getting stuff from the US. I'd perhaps try CL and you might get lucky.
An excellent media for this pot blaster is coal slag media. I don't know what's available in Canada that's equivalent. I've bought about 10 bags from Tractor Supply in the US that they call Black Diamond. It's fairly inexpensive at about $10 a 50 lb bag. It's excellent stuff for car bodies, suspension parts and other larger steel items. It comes in coarse, medium and fine grit. I've done two car bodies and parts with fine grit. The medium is too coarse IMO. To use it, you need to modify the pot blaster. HF sells a kit that works and is what I did.
For smaller and more delicate parts like aluminum stuff, a media blast cabinet is what you want. I used to have one of the bench models but it was just too small. I bought a used floor model off CL for cheap. With one of these, you want a dust extractor setup using a vacuum and cyclone dust extractor like below. If you don't use the extractor, the fine particles will clog up the vacuum pdq and even destroy it. I use a Home Depot vac that sits on a 5 gallon pail. Glass beads work great and are readily available all over. I recently tried crushed walnut shells on a set of alloy wheels and it was useless.
If you're going to do much "sand" blasting with one of these pot blasters, you'll want to recover the media and screen it to reuse. I use the coal slag over and over many times. You'll want to build an enclosure of some sort with tarps around the sides to retain the media for collection. A tarp on the ground makes it a lot easier to sweep up but don't let the nozzle hit the tarp or it will shred it to nothing immediately. I'm not aware of any environmental regs that will cause an issue in Canada. I use my pot blaster in the driveway but the nearest neighbor is 200' or more away. The media runs out in the pot fairly quickly and if you have a lot of things to strip, it can be a slow process to sweep it up, screen it and put it back in the pot over and over. Works fantastic though. If you have large pieces and surface areas to strip, consider using a "strip disc" on die grinder or angle grinder to get some of the paint and primer off first. Can save a lot of time before turning to the pot blaster to get it down to 100% bare all over. Strip discs are pretty dusty though.
Notwithstanding the current border closure, if you live near enough to the border, you could consider opening up a mailbox across the border, get stuff shipped there and then go pick it up. Not only is stuff generally a lot cheaper in the US, when you come back across the border you won't get pulled over to pay taxes or duty up to a certain amount per person (I can't recall the current limit). We do that all the time and the only I got sent inside was when we had a $500 computer. We've saved thousands of $$ over the years.
And, you'll also need a decent compressor setup. I don't think less than a 60 gallon 5HP will cut it. You'll need to dry the air too. A run of copper piping after the compressor and before the regulator(s) and filters is a common way to do it. Lots of examples on this forum.
FWIW, depending on what you are doing, note that once the metal is down to bare steel, it starts to "flash rust" fairly quickly which can ruin a paint job. You may want to spray epoxy primer on it asap or if you don't care a whole lot about it looking nice and lasting, rattle can rust converter paint works. There are some tips and tricks about using epoxy you'd need to study up on.
