As I actually had an issue or two of this, I can kind of help.

The owl and the bear are the same woman. She's called snow... something. Snowfox? I dunno. Anyway, she basically transforms into animals.

The clips of the robot are supposed to be of a guy who's missing his legs and is a super-genius. He built a robo-suit and called himself "Box." I think he entered and exited the suit by phasing through it somehow.

There's supposed to be a martial-arts midget (Puck), a guy who turns into bigfoot, an Indian who can pull anything out of this medicine bag he carries, and some guy in a Canada Flag super-suit.

I know it makes no sense, but since they're Canadian, they're lumped in with Wolverine, and that means no matter how ridiculous they are, they'll never go away.

They are a Canadian mutant team from the X-universe that was sorta-but-not-really popular in the late 80s and 90s despite the fact they were terrible, yet somehow they have a strange cult-following. I think most of the characters are still in the Marvel universe, but who cares.

Puck is the best. Marvel Comics couldn't just make him a fun karate dwarf, as that would be simple and appealing. So he's actually a 7 foot tall adventurer from the 19th century who met an evil genie who shrank Puck down to half his natural size, but also made him immortal, for some reason. He spent a hundred years learning gymnastics and is now the most feared Oompa Loompa.

Appreciate the exposition; could have just said "a bunch of retarded shit" though.

I don't think it's possible to be racist towards Canadians (oh boo hoo, run back to the infinite oppression of your functional health care system and your stable economy compared to nearly every other country in the world), but if it were, I'm pretty sure it'd involve a rambunctious little person named after a hockey puck.

It would be impolite to consider having a small person with a thoroughly stupid backstory representing your nation to be a bad thing.

Also, Alpha Flight was killed off in one panel by Bendis during some crossover of some sort to show off how DANGEROUS AND SCARY some new villain guy was (who turned out to be crazy and out of control and was an American Postal Worker from Alaska) in the mid-2000s.

Alpha Flight fans were so upset that they wrote several moderately annoyed (but courteous) letters about that, let me tell you.

They were John Byrne's baby for a while, when both DC and Marvel would bend over backwards to have him. The only remaining significance (maybe the only significance) was that the team featured Marvel's first later-to-be revealed gay superhero, Northstar.