Joe
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...same kinda idiots running around defacing statues and American hereitage are doing the same in Canda too.
A prominent statue of Queen Victoria has been torn down by protesters in Canada as anger grows over the deaths of indigenous children at residential schools.
The protesters cheered as the statue at the legislature in Manitoba's capital Winnipeg was toppled on Thursday.
A smaller statue of Queen Elizabeth II was also upended nearby.
Local media say police used a stun gun to arrest a man at the scene but the protest was largely peaceful.
The toppling of the statues came on Canada Day, an annual celebration on 1 July that marks the country's founding by British colonies in 1867.
The recent discoveries of unmarked indigenous Canadian graves at residential schools had .