We have more in common with the Yukon and Nflnd than we thought...

Holy crap! That's a lot of blue! As we beach ourselves back onto the shores of Tory-manned Canada this morning, here's a quick and comprehensive look at how Canada voted (note: the GTA's propensity for Red - man, are we ever products of our environment), compliments of CBC.ca. Nice interactive zoomy map there! 

D is for...

Darjeeling.
Of course, thanks to Wes Anderson's love/hate movie last year (I happened to love, also in part due to the fact that the 2 movie posters were some of the best I'd seen in 2007), the term Darjeeling is now familiar to most folks. Suspiciously, it appears as though a town in the state of West Bengal in India ripped this movie off and had the audacity to name their own town, Darjeeling, selling tea, and even building a famous railway.

"Darjeeling is internationally famous for its tea industry and the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The tea plantations date back to the mid 19th century as part of a British development of the area. The tea growers of the area developed distinctive hybrids of black tea and fermenting techniques, with many blends considered among the world's finest.^[1] The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway connecting the town with the plains was declared a World Heritage Site in 1999 and is one of the few steam engines still in service in India."
{via Wikipedia}



Wait... did they say 1999? Impossible, considering the movie came out in 2007. Further proof that Wikipedia is not a reliable source.