Elite -ist: Maple Leaf Rag

We seem to have hurt our sister site to the north by not including them in Elite -ist these last few days. To show that it was nothing personal, we present this extra-special Elite -ist, dedicated to you, Torontoist! If you don't like it, readers? Well, blame Canada.

Torontoist: Canadians rule at kickball. Kickball was invented in the Czech Republic, not Canada.

Austinist: Austin's getting a new high-rise. The tallest building in Canada is the BCE Place–Canada Trust Tower in Toronto, measuring a respectable fifty-one stories and 856 feet.

Parisist is still in French. The laws in Quebec, Canada's mostly French-speaking province, promote French over English as a method of communication. (We're simplifying, we know.)

Bostonist: Students at Boston College have discovered that the Mentos-and-Diet Coke combination might even be rocket fuel. In the first four years of the 21st Century, students and professors at the University of Toronto published nearly 26,000 papers in scientific journals.

Shanghaiist could not have chosen a better graphic for this story about a sword-related death if they'd tried. A Canadian woman looking to replicate the crime might try this website.

Houstonist: You may neither rent nor own a toll road. According to Lawrence Solomon of the National Post, toll roads in Canada save lives.

Londonist: Pam Anderson will soon be getting naked in a London store window. Pam Anderson was born in Canada.

LAist: West Hollywood residents want the police to lay off on the drug busts. Last month, the DEA held a conference in Montreal to talk about international policies for drug enforcement. A counter-symposium was also held in Canada to discuss alternatives to prohibition.

DCist: The elephants at the National Zoo are coming under attack. In 1954, the Prime Minister of India gave two elephants to Canada.

Gothamist: Kevin Federline is trying to save the U.S. penny. One Canadian cent equals approximately 0.00896218 U.S. dollars.

Not that it's hard to find a Canadian flag or anything -- just ask American tourists in Europe! -- but we found this one on Trail Canada.