Most of what irritates me in the fandom-specific stuff is the sheer laziness in fact-checking. I can understand that Americans would not necessarily know how the Canadian healthcare system works, or that North York General Hospital is probably not where Gus would go in an emergency (it's in the ass end of nowhere, and I think of Mel and Lindz as being the type who would live in The Annex or Cabbagetown or somewhere urban and neighbourhood-y, not the cement wasteland that is North York), but they don't even seem to try to research this stuff! There are so many Canadians who are active in the fandom, that all it takes is a quick post in the BJfic group or something saying "Help! I need a Canadian beta/fact-checker!". Or at the very least, Google!

I know they're just stupid little details that don't matter to most people, but to those of us who know how wrong they are, they ruin the fic!

As for the accent thing, I think it's completely ridiculous to say that all Canadians say "aboot", or that we even talk the same at all. That's like saying all Americans talk like Texans. Put someone from Alberta in a room with a Newfie (and I use that word with the utmost love and respect) and someone from Ontario, and they're all going to sound different! It's a really freakin' big country, there are different accents and dialects, just like there are everywhere else in the world. Plus, due to our vast multiculturalism, those regional lines are blurring even more.