By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

Torontoist was elated to hear that Torontonian Mark Budzanowski, who was captured yesterday by Palestinian extremists, was released by his captors after they found his Canadian passport. The Globe puts in on the cover of today’s paper.
“When they were certain I was Canadian, they were very disappointed. Then, they told me, ‘We love Canada.’ That’s wonderful to hear when you have guns pointed at you….” Budzanowski said
In a strange twist one of his captors even gave him a contact number for the Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine (the group that held Budzanowski) if he needed any help in the future. Apparently they also questioned him about various shops on Carlton Street, where Budzanowski lives in Toronto. Which got us wondering what shops they’d be talking about? We don’t think they’d be asking about gay bar Zippers (72 Carlton), perhaps caterers Daniel et Daniel (248 Carlton) or maybe one of them had a hankering for an all-you-can eat breakfast and was asking about the Golden Griddle (45 Carlton). We’ll probably never know.