Still somewhat over the top. They mention he’s a Canadian three times in the first half of the article. In case you missed it, he’s a Canadian. Although looking him up it seems he’s also an American.
Right in line with that, the minute any comment or article even slightly nationalistic about another country, you get tons of comments about how untrue it is and how it's still the US that is amazing, not the other country.
... and "universally" (i.e. by the British, the Canadians and the US people) attributed the invention of the telephone, which was invented by an Italian, instead ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/17/humanities.int...
Though the Canadians are still not convinced:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci#2002_U.S._Congr...