https://www.westernstandard.news/news/breaking-court-postpones-feds-order-to-cull-400-ostriches-on-bc-farm/61799
People were sending emails objecting to the cull. I also heard that about 100 people were protesting at the farm.. for the birds.
“A family farm in British Columbia will not have to kill 400 of its ostriches — as least not yet — a court has ruled.
Justice Michael Battista sided with the farm, postponing a final decision on the cull until after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency conducts a full review of its initial order, which would have required the birds to be slaughtered by February 1.
The farm's legal advocate, Kari Simpson, told the Western Standard she expects to be back in court within 40 days.”
Epoch News had a post: What does Canada Day mean to you? Several people weighed in, but this is the one I identified with...
‘Celebrate Alberta’
Katherine Kowalchuk, 50, a lawyer from Calgary, says if she does anything on Canada Day it will be going to a local cafe to celebrate Alberta.
“I disassociated from Canada a while back. That started back in 2020 with COVID, when all of the mandates came in and I saw how our government was treating its citizens,” Kowalchuk said.
“It was 2021 where I really started looking seriously into Alberta separation, and ever since then I’ve become a dedicated separatist.”
Kowalchuk wants Alberta, or the West, to separate and become its own nation, not to join the United States, and she believes there’s a strong likelihood it will happen.
“I do think that there’s a really good chance that Alberta is going to separate. There’s too many push-and-pull factors that aren’t being resolved and are continuing to get worse and making life more ...