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WATCH: Calgary “hunger strikers” caught eating
How much of this so-called "hunger strike" is real?
Keean Bexte
They called it a hunger strike. Then the food came out.
International students in northeast Calgary have been attracting sympathetic media coverage by claiming they are on a “hunger strike” over the expiration of their temporary work permits.
But after the speeches, interviews, and carefully staged press event were over, video circulated showing people at the protest gathered around trays of food and eating a large meal.
That raises an obvious question:
How much of this “hunger strike” is actually real?
At least some of the protesters presented as part of this supposedly desperate demonstration appear to have had no problem eating once the media spectacle was finished.
The legacy media has repeated the protesters’ claims almost entirely at face value. They describe temporary residents facing the expiration of their permits as victims who have been unfairly denied the ability to remain in ...
