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The Gaza flotilla members as they’re: 🔴 Released from Israel and about to board the plane 🔴 Arriving in Istanbul 🔴 And what followed seemingly moments later... 🤡
For media stories on food inflation tomorrow, expect the usual suspects — Liberal-leaning, and often publicly funded academics and experts (rarely disclosed) — to once again argue that rising food prices have little to do with Ottawa’s policies. Ironically, many of them neither conduct research on food pricing nor forecast food inflation. Instead, expect the usual explanations: Trump, climate change, consumer demand, or vague accusations of “profiteering,” while avoiding more difficult conversations about taxes, regulation, counter-tariffs, recycling fees, and policy decisions affecting Canada’s food supply chain. Canadians deserve a fuller picture of what’s actually driving food costs. This pattern has become more noticeable as many media organizations themselves have grown increasingly dependent on federal funding to survive.
#hantavirus [The Portuguese crew that flew the Canadians home from Tenerife are not happy.] ➡️ 🇵🇹🇨🇦 Portuguese air crew transports passenger positive for Hantavirus - Crew complained of “insecurity” on board repatriation flight = News today that the repatriation flight from Tenerife to Canada of passengers from the Hantavirus-stricken cruise-ship was carrying at least one person positive for the potentially deadly virus will have increased the anxiety already voiced by the Portuguese crew that has complained it felt ‘insecure’ carrying out the flight. - According to the DGS (Portugal’s general health directorate): “at the moment, there is no evidence of secondary transmission associated with this flight, nor indication of increased risk for the Portuguese population.” - The words that stand out here being “at the moment”. - ➡️The Canadian citizen in question ➡️ started showing symptoms of the virus four days after the repatriation flight (effected on Sunday, May 10) – by which time the crew that transported him and four other fellow nationals home to Canada will have returned to their daily routines (and very possibly travelled to other countries, as part of their work). = ➡️ The crew, which entered an official complaint over the way they were seconded into the repatriation flight, included nine cabin staff and three pilots. - At the time of the complaint, EuroAtlantic – the airline operating the repatriation flight – stated that the five passengers repatriated from Tenerife “were not infected” and that the aircraft was disinfected after landing in Canada. = ➡️ The airline also said that the protection given to the Portuguese crew: ➡️ surgical masks and gloves, was sufficient – and that “all security measures were complied with”. This particular outbreak of Hantavirus – which turned the cruise of the MV Honduis into a global news story – has already led to the deaths of three people, with eight confirmed cases of infection. The virus can take up to six weeks to incubate before people start showing symptoms, thus the concern that this news story may not be over. By Natasha Donn portugalresident.com/portuguese-air…
