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Canada Chooses Flabby Furball, US States Go for Guns as State Symbols
19 August 2011
Canada.com, Opinion
Know what I like best about Canada's national symbol, the beaver?
It's not imperial. Not for us the American eagle with its razor talons, the British bulldog with its gobful of teeth or the ballsy Gallic rooster that struts symbolically for France.
Canadians chose a docile rodent with buck teeth, a pot belly and a tail that looks like it was run over by a Zamboni. We could have opted for a ferocious wolf, a majestic moose, a mighty bison or a fearsome polar bear.
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