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Vancouver riots lampooned in cartoon

The Taiwanese animation company that put out cheeky cartoons about Tiger Woods's marital infidelity and singer Justin Bieber has produced one parodying last week's riots in Vancouver.

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Animation by a Taiwanese-based video company pokes fun at peaceful Canadians transformed by hockey into rioting goons 1:04

The Taiwanese animation company that put out cheeky cartoons about Tiger Woods's marital infidelity and singer Justin Bieber has produced one parodying last week's riots in Vancouver.

Next Media Animation makes internet videos that take a saucy stab at events in the headlines. Its latest offering, in the wake of the Vancouver Canucks' Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup final, sends up Canadians' reputation for civility — except when hockey is involved.

"Hockey has long been a way for Canadians to release their pent-up anger," a narrator says over a depiction of the 1955 Richard Riot in Montreal.

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