This from the CBC: " These grocery shelves in the High Arctic community of Arctic Bay, Nunavut, have people talking this week — $38 for cranberry cocktail, $29 for Cheez Whiz, and a whopping $77 for a bag of breaded chicken. Arctic Bay-based MLA Ron Elliott, who represents three of Canada's most northern communities, said he is concerned about already high food prices going up even more in the High Arctic. "It's sort of the talk of the town," he told CBC News on Thursday. "You go in and people are pointing [things] out, and it's obvious to see that this has gone up, and that's gone up.""
Polish native Aleksander Doba took off from Dakar, capital of the African nation of Senegal, on October 26. After 98 days, 23 hours, 42 minutes at sea, Doba and his custom kayak touched land at Acaraú, a city on Brazil’s coast. The trip covered 3,320 miles. Doba is the fourth known person to accomplish such a feat – the first to do it nonstop. Watch this video which is not in English, but you get the idea.