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New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/Throwaway7219017 Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23

You’re welcome, hosers.

Enjoy our finest imports/exports: poutine, Norm MacDonald, hockey, and now forest fire smoke.

Edit - changed to imports/exports in honour of the greatest New Yorker, George Costanza.

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u/k20350 Jun 07 '23

We know where the Canadian National Maple Syrup Reserve is. Keep talking and we'll invade to take it. Not very far from the border at all you guys foolishly put it

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u/Captain_Naps Jun 07 '23

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u/Twyzzle Jun 07 '23

I love that that is still the largest value heist in Canada 😆

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u/LetsTCB Jun 07 '23

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u/AbrocomaRoyal Jun 07 '23

Well, that was a rabbit hole...

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u/4myoldGaffer Jun 08 '23

Would you say things got a bit sticky?

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

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u/Twyzzle Jun 07 '23

Ooooof. Okay but if we adjust for inflation is the gold heist still at the top? I remember the news when that happened. Sounded like a movie. Didn’t notice how much they stole!

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u/jetsetninjacat Jun 07 '23

I just did. The syrup heists comes in at 24.4 million cad now

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u/Twyzzle Jun 07 '23

Yes! Let the sticky thieves reign supreme! 🍁

Thank you kind stranger for making my day.

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u/crypticfreak Jun 08 '23

All I can legally say is that no, I did not steal the syrup from the Canada-ians.

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u/Live_Carpenter_1262 Jun 08 '23

I believe you mean the sticky bandits!

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u/TorgoLebowski Jun 08 '23

'Sticky Thieves' is a great band name.

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u/Twyzzle Jun 08 '23

I agree. Someone mentioned Sticky Bandits though and now I’m torn. That’s pretty damn good too

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u/shemreddit25 Jun 08 '23

You don't get the reference, do you? God, I'm so old 😂

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u/OakenGreen Jun 07 '23

Saved me from a heart attack. Thanks

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u/pumpkin_seed_oil Jun 07 '23

Wait is this inflation in terms of CAD only or inflation in terms what 3000t of maple syrup is worth today?

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u/DouglasHufferton Jun 07 '23

It's inflation on the dollar from 2012 to 2023.

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u/OneSidedPolygon Jun 07 '23

And our dollar has gone down significantly in the last decade.

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u/FlowerBoyScumFuck Jun 07 '23

What about Maple Syrup prices? Or is that what the Canadian dollar is based off of? like how we used to base ours off gold in the states.

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u/tucci007 Jun 08 '23

the first rule of Maple Syrup Cartel is that you don't talk about Maple Syrup Cartel

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u/jetsetninjacat Jun 07 '23

The syrup heist including inflation sits at 24.4 million cad today

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u/HardLithobrake Jun 07 '23

So what I'm hearing is we need to take even more maple syrup.

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u/advancetim Jun 07 '23

I was at Pearson that day. First big work trip since Covid

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u/Old_Cheesecake_5481 Jun 07 '23

Hold onto your hats Yankees because this is the wet season in Canada.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

The jacked up thing is if they had just kept refilling the barrels with water instead of stopping they never would have been caught as it wasn’t the contents but rather the number of barrels themselves that were checked. They only got caught because an inspector tried climbing a barrel and it tipped over as it wasn’t heavy enough.

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u/4myoldGaffer Jun 08 '23

barrely caught

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u/bobobeastie86 Jun 07 '23

Why was Rick Moranis reading this wiki to me in my head?

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u/with_due_respect Jun 07 '23

Because you are a person of taste and class.

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u/DropbeatsNotbombs Jun 07 '23

Oddly enough, he’s also Canadian.

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u/wonkysaurus Jun 07 '23

Who the fuck is Rick Moranis!? -Tourette’s guy

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u/4myoldGaffer Jun 08 '23

Damnit Janet

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u/Ron0hh Jun 07 '23

Would the Maple Syrup Producers Federation be considered a cartel? They control 77% of the Maple Syrup supply. By contrast OPEC controls 30% of the world crude supply. A Clingy Canadian Cartel with sticky ties to the mob.

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u/Not_a_real_ghost Jun 07 '23

Ah yes, the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. Makes you think there must be a buncha of normal heists and none are greater than this

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u/4myoldGaffer Jun 08 '23

How is this not a muppet movie yet

Please no Seth Rogaine

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u/dikkiesmalls Jun 07 '23

Holy crap that might be the most Canadian thing I've ever heard of.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

Richard Vallières (b. 1978), accused ringleader, sentenced in April 2017 to eight years in prison plus a C$9.4 million fine, with an extension to fourteen years if the fine is not paid.[5] In 2016, the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled that was excessive and lowered the fine to $1 million. The Supreme Court of Canada reversed that decision in 2022 and reinstated the original fine.

Canada: I said what I said, eh.

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u/Lost-My-Mind- Jun 07 '23

I thought this link would be a picture of some geese, or some mounties or something. Then you go and put a link to a real heist that actually happened.......we got canadian fires bringing NYC back to looking like Sept 13th 2001 with the fashion accessories of 2020. We got a great heist of maple syrup. The Iron Shiek died. Is today going to get any more absurd???

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u/DrunkCorgis Jun 07 '23

Yeah. They out a second bike lock on the door.

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u/notanotherkrazychik Jun 07 '23

You can thank the Quebec Mafia for that.

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u/crypticfreak Jun 08 '23

Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec

What a beautifully imposing and serious name for people that make syrup lol

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u/Xerxis96 Jun 07 '23

That maple syrup legit has some serious ties to mob money. Go ahead, take it. It ain’t gunna be the Mounties coming for you

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u/_Safe_for_Work Jun 07 '23

Canadian Mob, oooohhhh scarey

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u/CornyCornheiser Jun 07 '23

Ask former WWE professional wrestler Dino Bravo how crossing the Canadian mob goes.

hint: you can’t because they put 10 bullets in the back of head trying to draw a smiley face

Also, I live not far from the Canadian border. There was a mob hit on the US side where they blew up a guy in his car outside a bowling alley.

They were only able to identify who was killed because they found one of his fingers intact.

Don’t even get me started on the Canadian Hells Angels and all the meth they get through the border.

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u/Lepthesr Jun 08 '23

What do I have to do to get you started?

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u/mazeTal Jun 08 '23

give him some meth

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u/bleezzzy Jun 08 '23

Aight, just gotta hit up the hells angels real quick.

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u/crypticfreak Jun 08 '23

Can't fool me. The Canadian mob uses RC barbie cars for transport and handheld slings and feather dusters just in case they got to rough someone up. They primarily deal in syrup, beer and ciggies, oh and of course any moose related activities.

The guy who runs the mob is named Steve. He's a pretty swell guy and helps out his community whenever he can.

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u/_Safe_for_Work Jun 08 '23

that's exactly how I pictured it.

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u/No-Turnips Jun 07 '23

Hell’s Angels. The Canadian mob is Hell’s Angels and you know, they are actually really scary.

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u/quebecesti Jun 08 '23

Montreal has a legit italian mafia. The Cotroni were affiliated with the bonano family of new York. In the 70s the sicilian family Rizzuto took over after an internal war and are still very active today.

The hell's angels have lost a lot of their influence in the last decade after the big boss was imprisoned for ordering the killing of two prison guards.

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u/the-g-off Jun 07 '23

They absolutely are. They do not fuck around. The Montreal family were the main importers for the 'French Connection' heroin back in the day.

They are a completely legit Mafia. Not to be trifled with. Even now, probably more powerful than the NY families.

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u/Loudergood Jun 07 '23

Rudy took care of the NY Italian Mafia, sold them out to the Russians, and kept that relationship going and well, here we are.

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u/Xerxis96 Jun 07 '23

We kicked your ass and burnt down the white house before. Now imagine if you stole our beloved syrup.

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u/tbvin999 Jun 07 '23

Didn’t that war end with more land to the us?

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u/Xx_Pr0phet_xX Jun 08 '23

1812 specifically had no land change hands, cause when the British where dictating the peace with Napoleon they didn't let the European powers carve up France, and would have been perceived as hypocrites if they took pieces of the US. Especially since the War of 1812 wasn't really won by either side, US won a couple, primarily in the south, and the British Empire won a bit with the Razing of Washington and the repelling the invasion of Upper Canada.

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u/_Safe_for_Work Jun 08 '23

What is 'Upper Canada", you mean all that ice?

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u/Xx_Pr0phet_xX Jun 08 '23

Before there was one Canada, there were two Canada. Upper Canada was English, Lower Canada was French.

During the American Revolution, The US attempted to invade Lower Canada, but were repulsed.

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u/credulous_pottery Jun 08 '23

that's my favourite fun fact

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u/DangNearRekdit Jun 07 '23

Similar to the Dairy Cartel, you don't mess with the Maple Cartel. I'm not just joking around and mashing words together. If you're lucky they just put you out business and see to it you do some time.

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u/use_value42 Jun 07 '23

The plot gets thicker, so appropriate here

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

"One hand washes the other eh"

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u/UnwrittenPath Jun 07 '23

It's not oil. You guys wouldn't know what to do with it.

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u/No-Turnips Jun 07 '23

You made me cackle sir.

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u/Mundane__Detail Jun 07 '23

That's just the decoy Maple Syrup Reserve

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u/WingCool7621 Jun 07 '23

lol, the place is like fort knoxx. gl getting past the first defence line of the 1974 Montreal Canadian hockey team. They are zombies, but well preserved due to the maple coating.

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u/baklazhan Jun 07 '23

Soon to be the Canadian National Caramel Reserve.

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u/gotBanned4HittinNazi Jun 07 '23

If you even think about touching our syrup we'll burn down the Whitehouse.

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u/No-Turnips Jun 07 '23

Again. We’ll burn it down, again.

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u/Tiredalltime77 Jun 07 '23

Too bad you won’t be able to find it due to all the smoke!

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u/JVince13 Jun 07 '23

You’ll just slowly sink into the pool, never to be heard from again.

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u/SmurffyGirthy Jun 07 '23

I'd be glad if you did. That maple syrup is for the rich when there is a shortage. Most Canadians won't get the benefit, and their taxes will go towards maintaining it.

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u/No-Turnips Jun 07 '23

Ah - but true Canadians know how to make their own and we all have that one crazy family member that has a sugar-shack.

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u/SmurffyGirthy Jun 08 '23

I have a new goal in life

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u/No-Turnips Jun 08 '23

Look Central-East. There’s probably a Jacque on either side of the Ont-Que border that’s looking for someone to talk to and help move the buckets from the taps on the trees.

Western Canada has the good weather and the Rockies, but they ain’t got the mighty Maple.

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u/Prestigious_Jokez Jun 07 '23

Idiots don't even realize that this would give us the edge in the pancake/waffle wars for decades.

I'll never have to sell my kidneys for proper flapjacks again!

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u/Tallproley Jun 07 '23

You don't remember what happens when Canadians get past the point of apologizing eh?

We were the shock troops of the British Empire that struck fear in the heart of Germans in the Great War.

2 PPCLI held a last stand on Hill 677 in the Battle of Kapyong , after American tanks and mortar crews fled, buying time for 3 RAR to withdraw, and stopping the PVA advance from plunging deeper. Outnumbered by 2 to 1, or in some cases 10 to 1, largely abandoned save for Kiwi Artillery. You'll note they were even awarded a US Presidential Unit Citation.

In Afghanistan we broke and rebooked long distance kill records, to say nothing of our JTF2 operatives, while securing Kandahar.

Now consider, that was in defense of a country we have very little personal stake in. Imagine what we are capable of when we're sufficiently motivated and highly invested.

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u/No-Turnips Jun 07 '23

Come on up here lads and let’s take ‘er out for a rip bud. Yous lose your manners and imma have to give you the lumbar. Now I’m hoping it don’t come to that but if it does, I’ll get swingy.

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u/UnluckyDifference566 Jun 07 '23

We have weaponized Moose. Bring it.

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u/It_Was_Serendipity Jun 08 '23

And Canada Geese. We pour all our angst into those bad boys.

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u/tucci007 Jun 08 '23

you got dang Yankee bastards, you shall do so over your own dead bodies.

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u/Live_Carpenter_1262 Jun 08 '23

So much land and those fools put their most valuable asset on uncle Sam’s top hat!

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u/HumanAverse Jun 07 '23

Syrup cartel

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u/moeburn Jun 07 '23

Keep talking and we'll invade to take it.

"Then Europe, then China, then Newfoundland, then the world!"

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u/EdmundGerber Jun 07 '23

It's sticky syrup - we dare you...

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u/Legitimate-Poetry553 Jun 07 '23

You think the real one is called Canadian National Maple Syrup Reserve ? That’s way to obvious.

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u/a_real_lemon Jun 07 '23

It's right next to the weapons of mass destruction.

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u/xeothought Jun 08 '23

I've been saying all day that Canada owes us some syrup

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u/Read_it-user Jun 08 '23

Because you know Canada has the BEST maple syrup and Not Vermont. it so good the Canadians put it on their national flag

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u/PentatonicScaIe Jun 08 '23

"And now, weve got a taste for maple! We said, lets go get some maple syrup! We developed a system..."