Official: Canada bashing thread

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Online petition launched calling for Justin Bieber's deportation

The petition, which was launched on Whitehouse.org hours after his arrest, states, "We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture. We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive, and drug abusing Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked. He is not only threatening the safety of our people but he is also a terrible influence on our nation's youth. We the people would like to remove Justin Bieber from our society."


The campaign has garnered over 40,000 signatures, but must reach 100,000 before White House staff will agree to review it and "ensure it's sent to the appropriate policy experts".

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The Obama administration will have to respond to a petition asking that Canadian pop star Justin Bieber be deported after it passed 100,000 signatures.


A petition asking the Obama administration to deport Canadian pop star Justin Bieber after his arrest last week on a drunken driving charge, on Wednesday passed the 100,000-signature mark needed to require a White House response.

The petition so far has collected about 118,000 signatures since being added by user "J.A. from Detroit" to the White House website on Jan. 23, the same day Bieber was caught drag racing on a residential street in Miami Beach in a rented Lamborghini.

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One one hand, this is pathetic.

On the other, finally the Obama White House has a value.

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Entertainment Tonight.

Justin Bieber is expected to surrender to police in Toronto today in regard to an alleged assault involving a limousine driver, CBC News reports.

According to the news source, the charge stems from an alleged altercation that took place Sunday, December 29. Police sources reportedly tell the CBC that Bieber, 19, will be officially charged today and given a notice to appear at a later date. Toronto police tweeted Wednesday afternoon that they can not confirm the news, while police had no comment when ET reached out.

This follows Bieber's DUI arrest in Miami last week where he was also charged with resisting arrest without violence and driving with an expired license.

Bieber's arraignment date was set for February 14 in the DUI case.

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It was possibly Miley Cyrus. They are identical.

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Egging investigation 'tightening up'

Detectives are "tightening up" their case against Bieber in his alleged egg attack on a neighbor's residence, an investigator said Tuesday.

The neighbor accused Bieber of tossing eggs over a fence and onto the mansion next door on January 9, causing an estimated $20,000 in damage.

A dozen Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies raided Bieber's $6.5 million home in the exclusive Oaks community in Calabasas, California, two weeks ago, taking the security video system as evidence.

A prosecutor reviewed the security video Monday and asked detectives to do more investigation before a decision is made about charging the pop star with felony vandalism, according to Lt. David Thompson.

Detectives will probably meet again with prosecutors in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office next week, Thompson said. The district attorney will then decide whether a charge will be filed against Bieber.

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I can't believe our cops gave Rob Ford a jaywalking ticket. http://www.torontosun.com/2014/02/01...g-in-vancouver

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Really, aren't there better reasons to arrest him?

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Really, aren't there better reasons to arrest him?

Probably better reasons. Jaywalking is a $109 ticket here. Wish they'd issue them downtown. Maybe fewer pedestrians would walk on the don't walk sign.

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LOS ANGELES (CNN) —Sheriff's investigators Thursday asked prosecutors to charge Justin Bieber with felony vandalism in his alleged egging of a neighbor's home.

"No decision will be made this week," Los Angeles County District Attorney spokesman Ricardo Santiago told CNN.

Detectives presented their findings to a prosecutor who must decide whether Bieber, 19, will be charged with vandalism and if the charge is a misdemeanor or a felony, Santiago said.

The neighbor accused Bieber of tossing eggs over a fence and onto the mansion next door on Jan. 9. Investigators pressed for a more serious felony charge because the attack allegedly caused an estimated $20,000 in damage.

If it were to happen, a misdemeanor charge would be easier for the singer to deal with, since he would not have to personally appear in court. His lawyer could handle the case without his presence. A felony, which carries a more serious penalty, would require Bieber's attendance in court.

A dozen Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies raided Bieber's $6.5 million home in the exclusive Oaks community in Calabasas, California, last month, taking the security video system as evidence.

Thursday's meeting at the Van Nuys courthouse was the second with prosecutors. The recommendation of a felony charge was confirmed by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. David Thompson.

At the first meeting last week, the detectives were asked to conduct more interviews to "tighten up" their case, Thompson said.

Bieber also faces misdemeanor-level criminal charges in Miami Beach, Florida, and Toronto, Canada.

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Man falls off cruise ship
BY TIMOTHY O'HARA Citizen Staff
tohara@keysnews.com
The Coast Guard suspended its search on Monday night for a Canadian man who fell off a Celebrity cruise ship bound for Key West.

Carol Tremblay, 66, was last seen on a video surveillance camera aboard the Celebrity cruise ship Constellation at about 3 a.m. Sunday, 23 miles south of Summerland Key in the Atlantic Ocean, according to Coast Guard Lt. Peter Bermont.

"We don't know the circumstance of how the man fell overboard," Bermont said. "He was not on the vessel once it moored in Key West."

Tremblay fell from the 11th floor of the cruise ship, about 110 feet, Bermont said.

"It was known that he was not a good swimmer," Bermont said.

The Coast Guard started looking for the man early Sunday morning. Several Coast Guard aircraft and boats searched roughly 850 square miles of water before calling off the search on Monday evening, Bermont said.

The video did not appear to show any sort of foul play involved in the fall, but the investigation is ongoing, Bermont said.

Tremblay's wife reported him missing after she could not locate him, according to Celebrity cruise line spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez. The ship's captain immediately ordered a search for the missing guest.

A review of the ship's closed-circuit camera footage observed the guest going overboard from an upper deck at approximately 3 a.m. The Coast Guard and FBI were both contacted by Celebrity, which is owned by Royal Caribbean cruise line, Martinez said.

"Royal Caribbean's Care Team is providing support to the guest's family and our thoughts and prayers are with them," Martinez said via email.

Martinez did not provide any details of the fall, only to say that rough seas or bad weather had nothing to do with the fall, she said.

The Constellation was sailing on a four-night trip that departed Port Everglades Thursday and included port calls to Nassau, Bahamas and Key West.

tohara@keysnews.com

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Jaywalking is a $109 ticket here.

Ouch. That's like $87.00 US.

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Man falls off cruise ship
BY TIMOTHY O'HARA Citizen Staff
tohara@keysnews.com
The Coast Guard suspended its search on Monday night for a Canadian man who fell off a Celebrity cruise ship bound for Key West.

Carol Tremblay, 66, was last seen on a video surveillance camera aboard the Celebrity cruise ship Constellation at about 3 a.m. Sunday, 23 miles south of Summerland Key in the Atlantic Ocean, according to Coast Guard Lt. Peter Bermont.

"We don't know the circumstance of how the man fell overboard," Bermont said. "He was not on the vessel once it moored in Key West."

Tremblay fell from the 11th floor of the cruise ship, about 110 feet, Bermont said.

"It was known that he was not a good swimmer," Bermont said.

The Coast Guard started looking for the man early Sunday morning. Several Coast Guard aircraft and boats searched roughly 850 square miles of water before calling off the search on Monday evening, Bermont said.

The video did not appear to show any sort of foul play involved in the fall, but the investigation is ongoing, Bermont said.

Tremblay's wife reported him missing after she could not locate him, according to Celebrity cruise line spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez. The ship's captain immediately ordered a search for the missing guest.

A review of the ship's closed-circuit camera footage observed the guest going overboard from an upper deck at approximately 3 a.m. The Coast Guard and FBI were both contacted by Celebrity, which is owned by Royal Caribbean cruise line, Martinez said.

"Royal Caribbean's Care Team is providing support to the guest's family and our thoughts and prayers are with them," Martinez said via email.

Martinez did not provide any details of the fall, only to say that rough seas or bad weather had nothing to do with the fall, she said.

The Constellation was sailing on a four-night trip that departed Port Everglades Thursday and included port calls to Nassau, Bahamas and Key West.

tohara@keysnews.com

I'm guessing the wife did it.......

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I saw this and was reminded of how douchebaggy those few Canadians with a chip on their shoulder can be.

1. Our president is called a Prime Minister.
Our President is called a president. Our ministers are called minister. What the hell does "prime" have to do with it?

2. Baltimore, Maryland has more murders in a week than the entire nation of Canada does all year.
There were 543 murders in Canada in 2013. The lowest since 1966.
There were 4.5 murders per week (average) in Baltimore in 2013.
In the US, 543 is greater than 4.5 and you are a phucking liar. Or stupid, of course.

3. You don't have to be born in Canada to be Prime Minister.
It appears that you don't have to be born in the US to be US President.
So this one's a tie. But our worst President has more cred than your Lime Minister.

4. Canadians do not find, "Say 'eh' for me," to be particularly funny.
That is not surprising. Canadians have no sense of humor. Oh, excuse me, humour.

5. Canada has rednecks, too.
Rednecks have guns. You will soon gloat over your lack of them. Fail.

6. We're a lot bigger than you, in land mass, but our population is considerably less. The populations of Los Angeles and New York City would be around 30 million people. The entire nation of Canada has around 32 million people. Due to the fact that most of our country is in the northern latitudes, we huddle close to the border, for warmth.
Siberia is "bigger" than us too. But Siberians don't have to kiss the Queen's ass.

7. In the War of 1812, we kicked your butts. The reason why your Whitehouse is white is because we set fire to it and it was whitewashed to hide the damage (for propaganda purposes). Some Americans will say that THEY won the war. However, to win, a party must reach their objective. Your objective was to take over British North America (what Canada was called then), our goal was to stop you. You don't have any more northern territory along the Canada/US border than you did before 1812. So who won? (Alaska doesn't count, you BOUGHT that state from Russia.)
Canada was called British North America because the Crown owned you. Our objective was not to take over Canada you idiots, it was to shake off the tyranny of some King in Great Britain. Talk about a smaller country. Yet, the Queen owned you until 1987, and as far as we are concerned, you are still the Queen's puppy. Not only did we kick the British the phuck out of our country for good, we beat the living crap out of a much larger force by being braver. smarter, and better sailors. Perhaps you remember the royal loser, Barclay. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry handed you your ass, which is why we regained Fort Detroit, and why we don't PHUCKING SPEAK FRENCH.
Again, either a lie or stupidity. Study it: Battle of Lake Erie: Americans outnumbered, OWNED the British. Doesn't look like any Canadian ships took part. If you were as bad as you think you are, you'd own Alaska too. Rather than just the scrublands in the Yukon around it.

8. A form of baseball was played just outside of Toronto, Ontario three weeks before Alexander Doubleday played the 'first' game of baseball in your country.
That's interesting. Yet we kick your ass in baseball. Except 2006, which I guess is why your own people rioted in Vancouver, "british" Columbia.

9. We do not find the term "Canuck" derogatory, like Americans find "Yank" derogatory. It apparently originated during World War One. Your soldiers were call "doughboys" ours were called "Johnny Canucks". I think the British coined the term, but I'm not sure.
That would make sense. You answer to what the British call you and you like it.

10. We are not "just like Americans", we have our own national identity, we just haven't figured out what it is, yet. Someone once said that, "Canadians are unarmed Americans with health care." That pretty much sums it up, I guess. We are internationally (but unofficially) known as the "World's Most Polite Nation."
When Britain and France decide what your identity is, they will let you know. And you will apologize to them for not realizing it sooner.

11. Our national animal is the beaver. Sure it's just a rodent, but they're not even CLOSE to being extinct. You can still get money for beaver pelts. It is NOT our main unit of exchange, we have money, just like you. Beaver is the nickname of the female genitalia. So it suits you. We know you have money. We'll give you 80 cents US for that "dollar" with the picture of your master on it wearing the crown. Wait. No we won't.

12. We do not find the fact that American wear Canadian flag pins (so they can get better treatment in Europe) very amusing. So stop it.
You have got to be kidding me. We don't pretend to be anything. The people wearing Canadian flag pins in Europe are Canadians visiting their true homeland. Meanwhile, we don't find Canadians painting our flag on their boat and running around Florida amusing.

13. We have Thanksgiving in October, so we don't look like copycats (it IS an American originated holiday, after all). However, we celebrate Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Passover and other holidays at the same time you do. Nothing you do can keep you from looking like copycats. I notice that you didn't mention "independence day." Perhaps one day you will be independent. But considering you are pseudo-socialist bootlickers of someone else's royalty, and you can't even keep the Quebeqois in check, a civil war is more likely than independence.

14. We were formed, as a nation, in 1867.
Wait, you "kicked our butts" in 1812, but weren't a nation until 55 years later? No. You were a British colony, only because the French quit. You didn't get any recognizable freedom until 1987. Sort of. The jury's out.

15. November the 11th is called Remembrance Day, up here. It is a day when all Canadians honour our war dead and the veterans who are still amongst us. Its significance is that on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the Armistice was signed, ending World War One.
Yeah, we call that day Veteran's Day, because: We won WW1. We won WW2. We still have veterans. You have 32 million people total. We have over 23 MILLION living American military veterans. We have more than two living veterans for every three of your living weenie citizens. No wonder it's called Remembrance Day. You have to have more living veterans for it to be anything else. Our retired veterans could take your country over in about a day if they wanted to.

16. Not every Canadian speaks French. In fact, Canada is the only country where speaking French is not cool.
Quebec called. They said "Français sera la langue nationale un jour, weenie."

17. We spell words differently. Honour, valour, defence, neighbour, colour, centre and other words are from the British way of spelling. We also pronounce the last letter of the alphabet "zed", not "zee". That makes sense. Colonial subjects of foreign rulers typically take on the language of those who colonized them. This is why Puerto Ricans speak American. And people in India speak the Queen's English.

18. The Queen of England is not our national leader. She's' just a figure head and somebody to put on our money with the birds. (Some Royalists in Canada will have something different to say about his, but they're a minority.) Your form of government is called a "Constitutional Monarchy." When you hear the words "Constitutional Monarchy," what the hell do you think the "Monarch" refers to? You can try to deny it, but you are her puppy and she owns you. Bow before your monarch, puppies. Kneel before the Crown.

19. Our states are called Provinces. We even have three Territories.
These sound like British terms. Or French. A quick search suggests both.

20. We DO NOT have snow all year round. We DO NOT live in igloos. We DO NOT ride around on dog sleds.
We DO NOT have to check the back yard for polar bears, before we let our kids go out to play.
Eskimos live in Igloos. They resisted Russian conquerors from 1649 on. Nobody confuses Canadians with them. Don't flatter yourself.
You are Euro-weenie wannabees driving American cars to Starbucks, only by kilometers. Say, isn't that the European decimal system?
Ahhh, that's right. They own you.

21. Many Canadians have never played hockey in their lives. There are many who do not like hockey.
More Americans have played hockey than Canadians.

22. Besides, our national sport is not hockey, its lacrosse. It's one of the few sports that originated on the North American continent, it was played by the Aboriginals.
First of all, yes... hockey is your national sport. It stopped being an Olympic sport in 1908. No wonder you had to play hockey. In the traditional aboriginal Canadian version, each team consisted of about 100 to 1,000 men on a field that stretched from about 500 meters to 3 kilometers long. These games lasted from sunup to sundown for two to three days straight. I am guessing modern day Canadios play it for a much shorter time. Today's Canadios know more about Abercrombie and Fitch than Aboriginals. But don't get me started on your Native Canadian problem.

23. We didn't invent hockey, we just made it better.
Hockey was first played in Canada in the 18th century, so we can assume the British invented it, right?

24. Even if an "American" team wins the Stanley Cup (the "World Series" of hockey) it doesn't matter to us, because all your best players are Canadian.
Canadian refugees fleeing pseudo-socialism. But you may remember that even though Canada and Russia were perennial hockey rivals, it wasn't Canadians who brought down the Russian hockey empire. The "Miracle on Ice" was us.

25. On the other hand, if a "Canadian" team wins the World Series we ignore the fact that all our baseball players are American.
That happened once, in 2006. Your behavior following it suggested that you didn't expect it, and it would likely never happen again.

26. Stop asking if we know somebody in Canada when you find out we're Canadian. We DON'T know everybody in Canada.
This is just stupid. You way overestimate our interest in your slow-driving, dim-witted elderly balding Canadians who wish they were American and hang out in Florida pretending the are one of us and wishing they really were.

27. We have no right to keep and bear arms. So leave your guns home if you're visiting, otherwise they'll be confiscated at the border. We have very strict gun laws, and fully automatic weapons are pretty much illegal. It almost takes an Act of God to get a licence to own a pistol. (This may be a contributing factor as to why we only have about 600 homicides a year, nation-wide.) "Licence." Another British word. Anywho.. like Puerto Rico, a colonized land like yours would naturally have very strict gun laws, as you are not truly free and your oppressors do not want you to have the ability to defend yourself. I probably have more guns and ammo personally than your armed forces. The bigger influence on your lack of homicides is your tiny population. But, as you have seen lately, the bad guys have guns. Sooner or later they will own you unless some good guys balance things out. Hint: thank God for that one dude in Ottawa who dropped the crazy son of your head of the immigration division.

28. The border between Canada and the US holds the title of the "World's Longest Undefended Border".
It's cute that you think it is undefended. Try crossing it undetected.

29. Our side of Niagara Falls is nicer looking than your side. In fact, even when Americans use images of the Falls in advertising and movies, they film the Canadian side. It's called Horse Shoe Falls, by the way. They film the Canadian side because to film the American side they'd have to go into Canada, which would suck. So, they stand on free soil and shoot toward the Queen's side.

30. We own the North Pole, and therefore Santa Claus is Canadian. The internationally recognized mailing address for jolly old St. Nick is:
Santa Claus
North Pole
Canada
H0H 0H0
Santa Claus doesn't exist. But our submarines carrying long range nuclear missles under the north pole are real. You may want to rethink who "owns" the north pole.

31. We call eskimos "Inuit", because that's what they call themselves.
That, and natives are known to kick your ass, hard. Nice job with your communes of "First Nation." Nobody is a big enough hypocrite to do what you have done to the First Nation people and take the moral high ground for using the Eskimo word. Whoo hoo.

32. That movie you thought was filmed in New York, or Seattle, or Chicago, or Los Angeles -- may have just been filmed in Vancouver, Montreal or Toronto.
Vancouver does play a mean Seattle. The rest of these iconic American cities could never be confused with Canaduh.

Now, your little joke was fun, but you are free at the pleasure of the USA. Don't push your luck with this crap. We are battled hardened, and you are undermanned, undergunned, underfunded, and underwhelming.

Oh, and come get Celine Dion, please.

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Another one...must be a fad.

The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing to search for a 43-year-old Canadian man who fell into the water from the 12th deck of the cruise ship Liberty of the Seas around 20 nautical miles south of Boot Key in Marathon Sunday around 9 p.m.

As of around 11:30 a.m., crews aboard the Coast Guard cutter Charles Sexton, a search helicopter from Coast Guard Station Miami and two vessels from the Royal Canadian Navy had completed five searches in a 58-nautical-mile radius, said Coast Guard Sector Key West spokesman Peter Bermont. The man’s name and age weren’t available

"Cameras aboard the cruise ship saw him falling from deck 12 over 100 feet from the waterline," Bermont said. "He was not wearing a life jacket. The area of the search is affected by the Gulf Stream running north, which can run two to five knots."

Cynthia Martinez, director of global corporate communications for Royal Caribbean Cruises, said the ship's camera footage shows the man climbing over the railing before going overboard.

Liberty of the Seas was on a four-day voyage that started at Port Everglades Thursday. The ship made a port call to Cozumel, Mexico, Saturday and returned to Port Everglades early Monday.

This is the second cruise-ship passenger this year to end up overboard on in the Florida Keys.

Canadian Carol Tremblay, 66, went overboard in February near Key West from the 11th deck of the Celebrity Constellation, 110 feet from the waterline. The Coast Guard called off the search after searching 900 nautical miles for Tremblay.

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Teen son of Canadian Consul General arrested after brother killed in drug deal
BY DAVID OVALLE AND CHARLES RABINDOVALLE@MIAMIHERALD.COM
03/31/2015 9:58 PM 03/31/2015 11:15 PM

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loca...#storylink=cpy
Authorities have arrested the 15-year-old son of the Canadian Consul General in Miami after they say he was involved in a marijuana deal that ended in gunfire and claimed the life of his older brother and another man.

Police believe Marc Wabafiyebazu and his 17-year-old brother Jean Wabafiyebazu — both armed with guns —planned to rob the drug dealers on Monday afternoon at a home in the Coral Way area.

In the gunfire, Jean was shot and killed inside the home. One of the suspected drug dealers, Joshua Wright, was also killed. A third man, Anthony Rodriguez, was wounded and drove off — he was later found at a nearby gas station.

“That’s what we believe, it was a a dispute over a drug transaction,” Miami Police Chief Rodolfo Llanes told the Miami Herald.

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Roxanne Dubé, the Consul General of Canada in Miami
Roxanne Dubé, the Consul General of Canada in Miami

Multiple people shot at Miami apartment complex off Coral Way
Miami police on Monday afternoon arrested Marc Wabafiyebazu for felony murder. Under Florida law, anyone who participates in a violent felony in which someone dies — in this case, armed robbery — can face a murder charge.

Marc Wabafiyebazu is being held in juvenile detention. Rodriguez, 19, is also charged with felony murder and marijuana possession with intent to sell.

At least one other young man was wounded at the home at Southwest 36th Street and 17th Terrace, just east of Coral Gables. Police say Marc Wabafiyebazu was outside the home in the car when the gunfire broke out.

The teens are the sons of Roxanne Dubé, who only recently assumed the role of consul general in Miami. A former Fulbright scholar, she has extensive diplomatic experience, having worked as an aide in Parliament and as the ambassador to Zimbabwe.

The Canadian government and the U.S. State Department are working with Miami police to untangle the events.

The teens, according to sources, drove to the drug deal in their mother’s black BMW — with diplomatic license plates. Detectives are trying to figure out where the teens got the weapons.

The alleged deal was for two pounds of marijuana at a price of nearly $5,000, sources said.

Meanwhile, the Montreal Gazette reported that Dubé was named Consul General in Miami in November. According to the newspaper, she has had a long career in the diplomatic corps, including being named ambassador to Zimbabwe in 2005 with concurrent accreditations to the Republic of Angola and the Republic of Botswana. From 2005 to 2008, she served as Canada’s special representative to the Southern African Development Community.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loca...#storylink=cpy

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That's why Canada is so safe. The worst of them are in Florida.

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Probably more truth than fiction there.....

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You want names?

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Other than the egg throwing, drunk driving, atv crashing singer punk?