Congratulations Alice Munro!
Canadian Author Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Brazil is a tough nut to crack
![Brazil accuses Canada of spying on its mines and energy ministry. [Canada has neither confirmed nor denied the allegations]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/09102013.jpg)
Brazil accuses Canada of spying on its mines and energy ministry. [Canada has neither confirmed nor denied the allegations]
Miss-communication
![Ethics advisor, Mary Dawson chastises Conservative MPs David Anderson and Jim Flaherty for interfering in the CRTC [Canadian Radio-TV and Telecommunications Commission] deliberations.](https://hungdrawnandcultured.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/08102013.jpg)
Ethics advisor Mary Dawson chastises Conservative MPs David Anderson and Jim Flaherty for interfering in the CRTC [Canadian Radio-TV and Telecommunications Commission] deliberations.
“Putin on the fritz”
![Russian President Putin ceremoniously lit the Olympic Flame in Red Square, but the Olympic torch went out en route to the Kremlin. [It was re-lit with a cigarette lighter]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/071020132.jpg)
Russian President Putin ceremoniously lit the Olympic Flame in Red Square, but the Olympic torch went out en route to the Kremlin. [It was re-lit with a cigarette lighter]
The Wrath of Grapes
In a strange reversal, grapes crush a man in La Mancha. The worker reportedly fell into a holding bay just as 5 tons of wine-making grapes were being unloaded.
Berlusconi’s final bow?
‘Who is Sylvia? What is he?”
The Italian Senate recommends expulsion for ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and his allies refuse to back his attempt to bring down the government
Food “Cartels”
OPEC: “Owners of Permits Extort Cart-operators”
“Landlords” holding $1,000 Vancouver food-cart permits are charging cart operators up to $10,000 per month for prime locations.
“Jell-ala-bad”
![A jellyfish invasion clogged pipes and forced the shut-down of a nuclear reactor in Sweden. [UN wonders if this could be the solution to the Middle-East and North Korean nuclear standoff?]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/03022013.jpg)
A jellyfish invasion clogged pipes and forced the shut-down of a nuclear reactor in Sweden. [UN wonders if this could be the solution to the Middle-East and North Korean nuclear standoff?]
Baby Bieber!
Justin Bieber has body guards carry him up the stairs on the Great Wall of China
What’s a Bosom worth?
Vancouver restaurant owner Allan Bosomworth is charged after he placed a hidden camera in his restaurant washroom
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