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Got some fruit, got some fruit in it.

But Uh, my mental health I, I feel like is important, and if in your good, in a good state of, state of mind.

Um, you know, Pompe disease, it's-- I say, you know, getting-- I say getting the diagnosis is not the end.

It's a new beginning, just thinking outside of the box and doing things differently.

You know, they say when you get diagnosed, you start treatment, ERT treatment, biweekly infusions, uh, every other week for the rest of your life.

Uh, yesterday I had n- had one hundred and ninety-four, so I'm getting close to two hundred.

Amazing

He spent his career looking at how food actually gets to the north, and he'll tell you it's not simple.

It is no one thing, and because it's no one thing, I think that's why it's harder for policymakers and, and others to, to find a solution.

Construction costs, repairs and maintenance.

Um, you know, the Nun- the minimum wage in Nunavut's gone up over 23% in the last, uh, two years.

Uh, insurance costs, you know, the, the communities of the Arctic from an insurance perspective are considered unprotected because they don't have fire hydrants and staffed, uh, fire departments, so that drives up insurance costs in a way that, you know, isn't comparable to a southern, uh, a southern business Uh, and then of course, it still comes down to the question of scale.

You know, a typical grocery store in the South might do a million dollars in volume a week at lower utility costs, at lower wage costs, without, uh, a year's worth of shelf-stable goods in a warehouse in the back room.

You know, they don't have the same investment in the inventory because they're getting six or seven deliveries a week.

Co-ops are stepping in, finding ways to keep that tradition going and making it easier for people to get out on the land.