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Wednesday 26 November 2014

Ebola Questions Now Greet Visitors To Canada At Border Crossings when they return from Black Friday shopping -

Ebola Questions Now Greet Visitors To Canada At Border Crossings when they return from Black Friday shopping - 



Cross-border bargain hunters will be met with a new slate of questions from Canadian border guards when they return home this week.

Thousands of Canadians are expected to shop for deals on Black Friday in the U.S.


The Canada Border Service Agency has started asking travellers more pointed and specific questions about Ebola.

Border agents at land border crossings have recently started asking those entering Canada if they have been in contact with someone suspected of having Ebola, have travelled to a location known to be dealing with the disease and whether they feel sick.

Jean Pierre Fortin, the national president of the Customs and Immigration Union, says the new questions aren't expected to create a backlog at border crossings.

"On Black Friday, I don't think the questionnaire would have a huge impact, but it's the volume that will have an impact on the time waiting," he said.

If travellers have been to an Ebola stricken country, they will be asked more in-depth questions.

"If somebody would say or we would feel the person is sick or the person actually looks like he is having fever or any kind of symptoms immediately the person would be isolated," Fortin said.

Fortin says the border agents are comfortable asking these questions.

He doesn't know of any incidents at the border that prompted the new inquires.

The local health unit  in Windsor, Ont., directly across from Detroit, Mich., raised concerns during the summer.

There is no strict screening process at North America's busiest land border crossing, the Ambassador Bridge, and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.

Dr. Wajid Ahmed, the unit's public health adviser, says the fact border-crossers are in vehicles makes it even more difficult to identify sick people.

"I don't think that there is anything that we can do to protect ourselves, unless the person is really symptomatic and the border security forces identify them as an ill person and may contact us," Ahmed said.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/26/ebola-canadian-border-canada_n_6225716.html

Israeli police in Jerusalem have been caught on video spraying Palestinian neighborhoods and schools with “skunk spray” -

Israeli police in Jerusalem have been caught on video spraying Palestinian neighborhoods and schools with “skunk spray” - 

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Israeli police in Jerusalem have been caught on video recently spraying East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhoods with a concoction they call “skunk spray”. The liquid is a mixture of sewage and rotting animal roadkill.

The result of the police hosing down neighborhoods, elementary schools and protesters with the mix is a putrid smell that seems almost impossible to get off or be around without inducing nausea. As a result, thousands of East Jerusalem children have been forced to stay home from school.

In the neighborhood of At-Tur (The Mount of Olives), police hosed down local elementary schools at 5:30 p.m., according to Khader Abu Sabitan, a member of the parents’ committee. He told 972mag that he “was on the road and saw them pass with their machine, and saw how they began shooting water at the school. I’m telling you – there was nothing there. It is Friday at 5:30 in the evening, and there was no one in the school or on the streets. Nothing. Everyone was home. They went to all four schools in the neighborhood, shot the water, and left.”



Read more - 
http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/11/israeli-police-on-video-hosing-palestinian-elementary-schools-and-protesters-with-skunk-spray/