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As Donald Trump emerged as the winner of the American presidential campaign Tuesday night, 100,000 people in the Unites States visited Canada's immigration website, contributing to a crash.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada confirmed that visitors from the U.S. made up half the traffic on its website when it "started to experience difficulties" around 11 p.m. on Nov. 8. The usual proportion of visitors from the U.S. ranges from 8.8 to 11.6 per cent.
In total, 200,000 users were on the website when it crashed, compared to 17,000 users at the same time the previous week.
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U.S. Visitors Flooded Immigration Website - Crash Followed - Ottawa
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @10:49AM
Soros is trying to create trouble because his cronies were replaced with a bunch of other cronies.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @11:13AM
Sounds like Canada needs to build a wall to keep out waves of illegal immigrants trying to escape their dysfunctional government to seek a better life in the North.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @11:34AM
http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/bricking-it-for-canada-1.3479184 [www.cbc.ca]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by BsAtHome on Sunday November 13 2016, @11:38AM
It would probably be cheaper for Canada to invade the US, depose the ruling class and annex the country. That would also make the southern wall obsolete.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday November 13 2016, @12:04PM
Canada to invade the US, depose the ruling class and annex the country
That's called "spreading democracy".
Democracy is usually spread on countries that have oil - and the US has a lot of it. Also, Canada could come up with a pretty convincing file on US WMDs at the United Nations. So yeah, I'd say they have a pretty strong case to start the spreading.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @09:02PM
In the UK, we might consider welcoming the US back into the commonwealth, if they were sufficiently apologetic for the interregnum.
(Score: 3, Funny) by hamsterdan on Sunday November 13 2016, @02:50PM
With what?
Threaten them we'll have our CF-18s fly over there and lose parts over the country?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday November 13 2016, @05:13PM
News item: Canada has acquired a uranium-filled bomb "bigger than a king-size bed." Fear it!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37875697 [bbc.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @05:14PM
With what?
A few well-placed maple syrup spills will wreak havoc on the US.
(Score: 2) by jimtheowl on Sunday November 13 2016, @08:14PM
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/today-we-celebrate-the-time-canada-burned-down-the-white-house-127844144/ [smithsonianmag.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @02:30AM
The F-35 would have been perfect for a stealthy attack. But that wasn't a Liberal priority.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @02:44PM
They need to build a Maginot Line. Fleeing to Canada make as much sense as fleeing to France before WW2.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday November 14 2016, @02:28AM
Sounds like Canada needs to build a wall to keep out waves of illegal immigrants trying to escape their dysfunctional government to seek a better life in the North
...which the US will pay for.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday November 13 2016, @11:44AM
At each election, there's a bunch of vocal people who threaten to leave the US. Then there's a spike of visitors to various countries' immigration websites around or immediately after the election results, indicating that a whole lot of people are thinking of leaving the US. But in the end, it's all bullshit and nobody leaves the US.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Sunday November 13 2016, @12:58PM
The funny part is the folks threatening to leave have a major policy goal of increasing illegal immigration... if you're consistent enough to leave, they should be illegals in Canada, just sneak across the border...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @05:16PM
Actually, we're going to immigrate to Canada legally and then sneak back into the US just to screw with the illegal immigrant numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14 2016, @03:07PM
Actually it depends on who is winning...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by art guerrilla on Sunday November 13 2016, @12:01PM
so sick of chickenshit, chicken littles who cry the sky is falling when their sparkle pony poops...
to all the celebutards who 'promised' to leave the country if t-rump won, PLEASE do so, i will not miss your misguided, authoritarian identity politics one whit... the wailing, gnashing of teeth and -oh, the hypocrisy is so thick it can be shoveled- riots protesting t-rump (uh, wait a minute, isn't that EXACTLY what libtards claimed the deplorables would do, and it was a krime against humanity; but when libtards do that EXACT THING, it is magically transformed into an earnest and necessary defense of democracy ? and WHY is it t-rump is responsible for the sore loserism of hill's deluded supporters ? WHERE are HER calls for the special snowflakes to shutup and take their medicine ?) are examples of the YUUUUGE blindspot and inability to accept reality that the libtard cohort has so consistently demonstrated that has made me abandon them as 'my peeps', i now excoriate them for their dishonesty and massive hypocrisy...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @01:55PM
Go fuck yourself.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Wednesday November 16 2016, @12:17PM
soooo, no refutation to the actual factuals, just 'go fuck yourself' ? ? ?
what the fuck is wrong with you ? ? ?
YOU ARE PROVING THE T-RUMPSTERS point: libtards are only happy when in control and enforcing their authoritarian (and wrongheaded, and ANTI-FREEDOM) identity politics horseshit on others...
for the record, Don't give a shit about t-rump, but i MUST be a deplorable, racist bigot 'cause i lashed out at pwogtards (oh, and to the other guttersnipe a couple posts down: i KNOW i can out-spell a chickenshit such as yourself, but i engage in neologisms and 'funny' spelling CAUSE I FUCKING LIKE TO, it amuses, unilke useless, unimaginative, plodding fucktards like yourself...)
i will do what i often do when i find stupid adversaries whose only retort is 'fuck you' (which i don't mind, but it should be 'fuck you, BECAUSE... A, B, C', a simple fuck you means nothing other than you are a knuckle-dragger incapable of ratiocination: here is my real email address, let's engage in a debate...
but, you know what, a non cow ? you won't, they almost NEVER do because you are a coward and you DO NOT have the courage of your convictions, as pedestrian and useless as they are: artguerrilla at windstream dot net, have at it, fucktard...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @02:14PM
There is so much intentional misspelling here I don't even know if I should make a poe joke or not.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday November 13 2016, @04:50PM
I'm hoping that if there is a 'mass immigration', that we get good people: yes, leave the 'celebutards' down there where they can play with all the money they've made and cry over Hillary losing.
Send us your bright, your good, your huddled but great masses. Leave celebrities down there.
Oh, and you can keep Celine Dion, too. And we apologize for her. Again. Yup. Sorry.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @11:39PM
When the U.S. sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing their problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some I assume are good people, but I speak to border guards and they tell us what we are getting.
(Score: 3, Funny) by http on Sunday November 13 2016, @05:25PM
Where is the "-1 Opiated Ramblings" moderation when you need it?
I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Sunday November 13 2016, @10:29PM
SoylentNews comments are the opiate of the, . . . um, of the, . . . OK, I got nothing.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jimtheowl on Sunday November 13 2016, @10:24PM
Canada is just nice, with a less densely population than the southern border and a lower crime rate than most alternatives in North America.
Given the coming rise in global temperature (which some believe is true), it is also a wiser choice for the long term than anything closer to the equator.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Reziac on Monday November 14 2016, @06:58AM
And you forgot... they only like democracy if THEIR candidate wins.
To all the whiners and losers I say... don't let the border hit ya in the ass on yer way out.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @01:22PM
How come these fuckers have no interest in going to Mexico? Their dollars would stretch much further. But no, Mexicans are brown. Let's go to the white country.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ticho on Sunday November 13 2016, @03:06PM
They just want donuts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @07:30AM
Where would Tim Hortons be without Americans? Not in Kandahar.
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Sunday November 13 2016, @03:22PM
(Score: 5, Interesting) by butthurt on Sunday November 13 2016, @03:54PM
If you really think the main difference between Canada and Mexico is skin colour, there may be a place for you in the Trump administration.
Among the immigrants to Mexico, more come from the United States than from any other country. More Americans live in Mexico than in any other country outside the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Mexico#American [wikipedia.org]
When I made a journal entry about this story [soylentnews.org], someone commented on the software used on Canada's site, which is IIS 8.5, presumably on Windows Server 2012 R2. Mexico's site is running Apache, probably on Linux (both are behind Big IP load balancers).
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.cic.gc.ca [netcraft.com]
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.inm.gob.mx [netcraft.com]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Username on Sunday November 13 2016, @09:51PM
Because when it comes down to it, they understand why Trump wants a wall. The left concedes this fact in their virtue signaling without even realizing it. The left is also the biggest contributor to the drug empires crippling mexico and central america. They need to switch it around, legalize the manufacture of drugs, not the consumption. That would be the quickest way to deflate the cartels.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @07:04PM
And unlike the US, if you want permanent residency you either have to be a legitimate political refugee, or else have skills and money to contribute to the society.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @08:05PM
if you want permanent residency you either have to be a legitimate political refugee
So you're saying, go ahead.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 13 2016, @07:49PM
Choo! Choo!
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday November 14 2016, @01:07AM
M. Lee Cohen of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was my attorney when I was married to a Newfoundlander. He got me a work permit and a Canadian Medicare Card. I was well on my way to a Landed Immigrant card when we divorced.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by draconx on Monday November 14 2016, @02:35AM
Americans moving to Canada simply because of the election result are quitters.
Being a sore loser is an anti-Canadian value [www.cbc.ca], and we don't want your kind here!
(Score: 0, Troll) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday November 14 2016, @02:53AM
German Jews moving to America simply because of the [1932] election result are quitters.
When's Crystal Night [wikipedia.org] scheduled?
This is what happens when people forget history (history? FFS, it's still living memory!).
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14 2016, @03:48AM
And that's exactly happening in the US. Concentration camps filled with Jews, African Americans, LGBTs, Muslim Americans, elderly, Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans all getting gassed.
(Score: 3, Informative) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Monday November 14 2016, @05:42AM
And that's exactly happening in the US. Concentration camps filled with Jews, African Americans, LGBTs, Muslim Americans, elderly, Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans all getting gassed.
Took AH over half a decade to get into third gear. Just a matter of waiting.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14 2016, @06:09PM
There's gonna be a camp for the calculating women who refuse to sign the prenuptial agreement. Also the women who will openly and quickly sign a prenuptial agreement in order to make a quick hit and take the money given to them.
Another camp is for the ones with extraordinarily bad breast jobs and the ones with pancake tits. Especially the ones who had a breast reduction, that's gonna be the highest priority of all. Those massive plastic surgeries that didn’t work, we'll make those go away.
And there will be a camp for that fat pig, Rosie O'Donnell. We're all a little chubby but Rosie's just worse than most of us. But it's not the chubbiness. Rosie is a very unattractive person, both inside and out.