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Crime🇨🇦 Beaver Statue Honoring the United States Is Smashed in Toronto - One of dozens of statues of Canada’s national animal, part of a public art installation for the World Cup, was destroyed. It was the one wearing stars and stripes.
By Vjosa Isai
Reporting from Toronto
June 30, 2026, 6:16 p.m. ET
The beaver statue honoring the United States in Toronto. One of dozens of statues of Canada’s national animal, the beaver was destroyed. Old Town Toronto Business Improvement Area
The four-foot-tall beaver sculpture was painted to commemorate the United States, little flags on each cheek flanking a bucktoothed smile.
It had stood undisturbed in a downtown Toronto park since the start of the World Cup, one of 48 beavers, Canada’s national animal, made of resin and painted to honor the countries competing in the tournament. A local business association organized the beaver display, a public art installation with an optional scavenger hunt element: Locals and visitors for the World Cup, which is holding games in Toronto, can use an app to track their progress at finding all the beavers.
Well, all but one. Under the cover of night on June 27, someone smashed the American beaver to bits.
Was its destruction in Canada, a country that has been in a protracted conflict with the United States over President Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats, random or was it a message?
“I’m not surprised it got blown up, or whatever happened to it,” said Joshua Azzoli, 18, a Toronto resident, standing near the site where the American beaver once stood with a little red, white and blue soccer ball.
The beaver has since been replaced with a sign from the business association that says: “Due to circumstances beyond our control, the U.S.A. beaver has had to be permanently removed.”
Mr. Azzoli was disappointed that the beavers seem to have been dragged into the geopolitical dispute. “Not everything’s about politics,” he said.
Observing the Mexico beaver nearby, Delia Henriques, 20, noted how intricately the statues were painted and lamented the loss of a local artist’s work.
About 150 Canadian artists applied for a chance to paint one of the beavers, said Robyn Posner, a director of marketing at the Old Town Toronto Business Improvement Area, the group organizing what it has called “The Great Beaver Quest,” which has had about 9,700 players, including children.
“They seem to just love putting their arms around these beavers,” said Ms. Posner, adding that she has been delighted by the feedback from locals — some who have used it as an excuse to get outside on their office lunch breaks — as well as tourists who have met other people taking the quest.
Alyah Holmes, the artist behind the beaver representing the United States, painted it in an American soccer jersey and landscape imagery capturing iconic skylines, like the Statue of Liberty and Midwestern wheat fields.
The police said they were investigating, but Ms. Posner said it was not clear what might have motivated the vandalism. There were apparently no witnesses.
Beavers representing other countries, including Brazil, England and Iran, have been bashed, but repaired and put in more secure spots.
The installation also includes beavers representing the Indigenous, Toronto, the world, and one surprise beaver still to be unveiled. The idea came about as an echo to a public art installation in 2000 called “Moose in the City” that included 326 painted moose. The beavers will be auctioned after the World Cup and the money raised will be donated to charity.
I once heard that "Canadians are just Americans with good PR", insinuating that Canucks aren't all incredibly nice and have disruptive people in their population just like Americans do.
Ever since the Olympic hockey finals, that notion has been shattered. Not only are Canadians not nice, they are actively spiteful; possessing both the elitism of the French and the self hatred of the modern German.
To make an American equivalent to a Canadian would require a complete conquest and submission of his spirit, brainwashing into luxury beliefs that only the Ivy elite would consider in the states, and finally the idea that he is both much more reasonable than every other population yet simultaneously a wretched colonizer that deserves nothing but shame and punishment.
To make an American equivalent to a Canadian would require a complete conquest and submission of his spirit, brainwashing into luxury beliefs that only the Ivy elite would consider in the states, and finally the idea that he is both much more reasonable than every other population yet simultaneously a wretched colonizer that deserves nothing but shame and punishment.
Was its destruction in Canada, a country that has been in a protracted conflict with the United States over President Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats, random or was it a message?
Canada Delendia est. But in all seriousness Canadians are petty and evil people. They're not as flashy as cartels or as openly unhinged as Americans but these are the people who will quietly poison your pets food and then set up a situation for you to overreact and they can play victim.
Canadians are a sort of society where cry bullies thrive.
Again Americans when we commit war crimes its because we say Guns of any size are good to kill you or any bomb is A okay to use or fire.
Canadians on the other hand were notoriously cruel to their german POWs and enemy using all sorts of cruelty.
But at the end of the day Canadians only deserve to be conquered.
Ever since the Olympic hockey finals, that notion has been shattered. Not only are Canadians not nice, they are actively spiteful; possessing both the elitism of the French and the self hatred of the modern German.
It should have been shattered 20 years ago when the internet when mainstream and we were all exposed to these creatures. I remember being a young teen on LiveJournal and realizing there was something deeply wrong in with the Canadian psyche and that they had a creepy and irrational obsessive hatred of the US and were generally awful, shit-stirring people. If you played an MMO in the mid-late 2000s, think back to all the Canadians you interacted with. I guarantee they all fucking sucked.
Japan is the only country in the world that has had nukes dropped upon it in anger, by us, at the conclusion of a vast and bloody war across the entire Pacific Ocean and they have less hard feelings about that than the Canadians have against our mere existence, when we could conquer them in an afternoon. Fucking lunacy.
like all these countries magically don't have an issue with us when some democrat in the whitehouse. I mean the media. I hear of euro news from my mom and the biden years it was like "americans chose right" and now trump is in office again even before iran it was like "americans are stupid".
Ive learned foreigners in general hate my country/me and they bitch about it constantly. way more than i do. and its usually some stuff ive heard , always "cliche american jab 23!"
And I can't point to their country on a map, i don't speak their language, i know nothing about their culture or what is suitable to make fun of. So its one sided. Maybe one day i can muster the gumption to learn the customs of a foreign country.
Probably won't since knowing anything about the world isn't beneficial to me at all.
Every Canadian I’ve ever met has been a miserable, two-faced cunt with a by the book shitlib ideology and an insurmountable inferiority complex. They deserve the hellscape they have turned their country into. Let them rot in it.
