But actually what the Macalope wanted to talk with you about, Canada, was RIM. Because, .

Research In Motion missed analysts' lowered revenue forecasts for its fiscal first quarter and said its outlook for the second quarter was lower than expected, as it reported its first-quarter results Thursday.

It gets worse.

RIM's delaying the 4G PlayBook and the company will be laying off an unspecified number of employees. The company shipped just 500,000 PlayBooks. Not that this one was that hard, but .

But, hey! The Macalope can make a suggestion that will cut a high-wage section of RIM's workforce Yeah, if RIM lets a bunch of people go and doesn't reduce its CEO count by 50 percent, well, then Canadians should really have something to riot about.