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Judy Jackson's avatar

It’s unfortunate that you didn’t pay more attention to what was happening at the Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, BC and the determination of the CFIA to cull/kill 300+ birds. It’s only been going on for 11 months. And more importantly since September when the Supreme Court issued a ‘stay’ so the judges could decide whether or not the Farm’s appeal would be heard. The Supreme Court announced today that they would not be hearing the appeal.

So CFIA now gets to kill the birds without testing to prove that the birds are sick.

Another government agency with no accountability.

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Karen Benz's avatar

Why can't they just test the effing birds?😡

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

No doubt CFIA refused to test because the entire world has seen how healthy the WELL-CARED FOR OSTRICHES ARE AND NONE OF THEM APPEAR TO BE SICK AT ALL AS THEY RUN AWAY TO TRY TO STAY ALIVE!!! THIS IS THE EPITOME OF OVERREACH AND ANIMAL CRUELTY BY THE GOVERNMENT AND CFIA. TIME TO GET RID OF SUCH A CRUEL AND EXTREMELY IDIOTIC LIBERAL GOVERNMENT. DISGUSTING!! INHUMANE - CRUELTY TO THESE BEAUTIFUL BIRDS SHOULD BE MET WITH A $330 MILLION DOLLAR FINE TO BE PAID TO THE OSTRICH FARM, AND JAIL WITHOUT BAIL FOR THEIR MURDERERS ALONG WITH ONE HE** OF A LONG TIME BEHIND BARS FOR CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. BY THE WAY, WHY DID ALL OF THE USUALLY VOCAL ANIMAL RIGHTS PEOPLE GO MIA TO PROTECT THE HEALTHY, BELOVED AND WELL-CARED FOR OSTRICHES??? THAT IS SUCH A MYSTERY TO ME.

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Judy Jackson's avatar

Yup, that’s exactly everyone has been asking for the CFIA to do for months now.

They tested the birds that died last December but refuse to test the birds that are alive.

I suspect that logic is not part of the CFIA mandate.

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Karen Benz's avatar

This government does not know logic and common sense. Probably a bunch of DEI bureaucrats.

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Keith's avatar

Because they are government pigs.

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

oh no, don't call them "pigs", as pigs they would have to shoot themselves in their own heads to save the planet.

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Keith's avatar

This could be acceptable. Perhaps they’d enroll in the MAID program…

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

HOPEFULLY THE NEXT ELECTION WILL PUT THE GOVERNMENT ON THE MAID LIST.

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Karen Benz's avatar

Agree, but we shouldn't insult the pigs.

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

AND WE MOST DEFINITELY SHOULD NOT CORRAL AND MURDER THE OSTRICHES. THIS ALONE IS NOT ONLY INSANE OVERREACH, BUT A DISGUSTING ACT THAT HAS BEEN SEEN GLOBALLY. THIS ACT MAY BE THE DEATH KNELL TO OUR GLOBAL REPUTATION. CAN WE SUE FOR REPUTATIONAL DAMAGE TO ALL CANADIANS?? FIRST THE FREEDOM CONVOY ATTACK AND NOW THE MURDER OF BEAUTIFUL OSTRICHES. WOW! WHAT IS OUR FLAG WORTH NOW??? WE HAVE A BRAIN DEAD LIBERAL GOVERNMENT . WE ARE NOT GETTING OUR TAXPAID MONEY'S WORTH FROM THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT.

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BGeorge Gobel's avatar

When does the insurrection start?

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

IT STARTS IN OUR OWN HOMES...AND IN THE SCHOOLS IF WE CAN GET RID OF THE UNEDUCATED WOKE TEACHERS...AND IN OUR COMPROMISED COURTS. AND OBVIOUSLY OUR RCMP AND MUNICIPAL POLICE SHOULD BE ON THE SIDE OF THE TAXPAYERS THAT PAY THEIR SALARY BUT THEY WERE WELL BRIBED BY TRUDEAU TO BE THE GOVERNMENT GOPHERS TO ATTACK CANADIAN CITIZENS AT THE FREEDOM CONVOY...I GUESS IT WAS CARNEY THAT GAVE THE ORDERS FOR CFIA TO MURDER THE BEAUTIFUL, HEALTHY AND HARMLESS OSTRICHES. THIS DEBACLE HAS PUT A HATE TARGET ON ANY CANADIANS TRAVELLING OUTSIDE OF CANADA.

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Bonnie's avatar

Re the ostriches. How do they propose to stop the spread through all the wild birds out there?

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KZwick's avatar

Trust the science Bonnie.

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KZwick's avatar

Canadian FOOD Inspection Agency.

These ostrich have not been part of any human consumption since before the Plandemic. The supposed flu was detected with two PCR tests in Dec /24. BC health no longer uses PCR to detect virus in humans, deemed unreliable per B Henry. The scientists at CFOODIA refuse to test the healthy birds. There should be red flags for everyone when the FOOD bureaucrats can order the culling of healthy animals who are not destined for human consumption.

However, up to the cull order, the farm was following CFIA protocol as a biohazard facility.

Communism, they masked for it.

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John Powell's avatar

I’m surprised CFIA has not attempted to cull wild birds.

A debacle ironically brought you by a government with its head in the sand.

Budget ?

Back in real life Dempsters ancient grains bread is 4 dollars on sale.

Food inflation continues to rise.

Cloned meat is not required to be identified as such.

And here I am , a poor retiree considering paying Mr Lilleys subscription because he has a much tougher cost of living than myself.

Lilley lives in Toronto.

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John Powell's avatar

I spent a large amount of time in my business life having staff deal with cross border harmonized tariffs. Categorizing etc etc. importing into Canada ? A costly nightmare. Exporting to USA ? Much easier. Going back30-40 years some US companies would not ship to Canada. Still true. The paperwork is too onerous. To this day I keep US manufactured goods made to my design in a Ny state warehouse. It’s not economic to import them here , and then turn around and sell back to the USA. Which is by far the largest market.

Anyone who thinks and believes Liberals stroking Canadian egos with the policy of “ diversifying trade to Europe and beyond” to thus become “ less reliant on the USA” is clearly delusional. And frankly stupid.

America is great. Friendly. A superpower.

How has Canada gotten everything so wrong with our trade relationship?

It’s not Trump

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Thorne Sutherland's avatar

No it’s not Trump. And what is worse, Trump has upset the globalist agenda and our PM is doubling down on failed policies, while the rest of the world is starting to realize maybe they were not a great idea. But you won’t hear that through our media.

It’s going to worse before it gets better.

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Kevin 🇨🇦's avatar

So you’re saying Trump and his constantly changing tariffs, economic threats and unstable trade practices are not the problem, but onerous Canadian paperwork is? OK.

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John Powell's avatar

Kevin along with onerous paperwork comes costs. Duties ( tariffs) and taxes. GST is applied AFTER duties. My conclusion is that your comment is not based on fact or knowledge of the cost of doing trade business in Canada from US or in fact anywhere else. My auto parts imported from Sweden are subject to duties as well as taxes.

No duties ? Little to No paperwork. Duties ? Quote:”Canada's Harmonized System (HS) for imports has over 12,000 unique classifications at the 10-digit level, which are part of a 21-section, 96-chapter international system that uses more than 5,000 six-digit commodity codes. While the international system has about 5,000 6-digit codes, Canada adds a 10-digit code for its own tariff schedule. “

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Kevin 🇨🇦's avatar

My comment is not based on fact? Where is it wrong? That there is paperwork involved in cross border trade? You’re missing the main point in that the Trump regime essentially attacked the world in terms of trade and Canada responded accordingly to protect its interests. If you believe that Canada, in trying to diversify some, but not all, of its trade to other countries that actually respect our economic interests is “stupid or delusional” then your opinion is not based on fact but merely conjecture.

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John Powell's avatar

It really is tiresome reading your stuff. 78% of all Canadas trade is USA. Get with the program. Clearly the liberals are not doing so and you clearly postulate why they are this way.

Sad to be you, and them.

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Karen Benz's avatar

Of course it's not Trump. It's idiot liberal voters.

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

MR. BRIAN LILLEY AND MR. DAVID KRAYDEN AND REBEL AND JUNO NEWS AND MS. JASMINE LAINE DESERVE ALL THE SUPPORT WE CAN GIVE. ALONG WITH CHRIS DACEY AND ALL OTHER CANADIAN REPORTERS WHO WEAR THE CLOAKS OF CHRISTIANITY, GOODNESS, AND MERCY.

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jimmmy's avatar

"No, these ostriches are not going into the food supply, but their existence could harm other bird flocks in the area and spread the disease."

These perfectly healthy (ie recovered from bird flu) birds are no threat to anyone or thing in the Canada, let alone the small plot they live on. CFIA's actions can be equated to killing the remaining well and thriving patrons in the old folks home because a few of the frail got sick and died from pneumonia. CFIA crew are dumb and ignorant luddites. Shame on you Brian for succumbing to the rhetoric and not using your common sense. Next you'll be telling us the shots were safe and effective because you heard Ian Handsome-man-thing tell us such on TV

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Claude Quintin's avatar

Reread the article.

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kRockit's avatar

Why no rumors of Libs crossing to the conservatives? Got to be some rural lib MPs that the conservatives can pick off.

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Anthony's avatar

The CFIA may have a legitimate reason to cull the birds, but we’ll never know what it is because unlike elected officials they aren’t beholdin’ to anyone. Well, seems like elected officials aren’t either these days either, come to think of it.

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Martin Dixon's avatar

I will have questions on Sunday about why this “generational, once in a lifetime” budget that we are all supposed to sacrifice for did not even mention how the continued funding of the OAS at the current levels will bankrupt us. I was told Carney was a “smart” person. He reminds me of Fredo.

https://youtu.be/vYabrQrXt4A?si=PggtEZLvL3LRZF9t

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Karen Benz's avatar

Sure Carney is smart. My daughter's dog is very smart but I don't think he could run this country and neither can Carney.

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

"RUNNING" a country is very different from RUINING OR BANKRUPTING a country that is what freelander and trudeauII started and Carney, I SUPPOSE was sent in by the WEF to manage the destruction in year eleven. The finances of Canada are now a disaster that I believe was the plan that would move the liberal government ahead to remove CPP funds to "balance the books". But the debt is heading for more than taxpayers can imagine would have been necessary outside of "wartime" or the outright collapse of taxpayer and CPP accumulated funds. Are taxpayers receiving enough "VALUES" IN RETURN for their contributions to taxation and will the TAXATION FUNDS be able to accommodate the GROWING NUMBERS OF non-contributors that taxpayers already pay for?

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Karen Semchuk's avatar

In regard to the Ostriches: they are not exotic pets, or for food. They are used for research for human benefit like vaccine development. The birds have obviously developed immunity to the avian flu, so would be very valuable for research. This is a heavy handed tunnel vision decision by the Feds.

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Martin Dixon's avatar

‘I’m with the government and here to help”

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Karen Semchuk's avatar

🤪😆😂

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Mike Canary's avatar

Then they came for the Ostriches, and I did not speak up, as I was not an ostrich 😬🇨🇦

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jimmmy's avatar

"Is anyone shocked the NDP is helping the Liberals once more?" --- when the NDP are so deep in the toilet bowl any scrap of tissue is worth grabbing for

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Martin Dixon's avatar

“Cervical dislocation”. How very civilized. Why don’t they just test them. Someone has offered to pay.

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Tomas's avatar

The province of Ontario has the largest non-soverign debt in the world. The amount of debt we carry is just staggering.

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sharon meade's avatar

It was never a cull they shut down the lights, and just fired into them you could hear them screaming in pain, totally disgusting, Is this our new Government looking after our safety, It was on Utube for everyone to view. Sickening

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Wolfe's avatar

What a mess. Crooked and corrupt to the core, all of them. Liberal, Tory, same old story. Decades of this mess. No leadership anywhere. But why? Who runs the country, Ottawa? $ KEBEK $ Mass immigration, massive govt growth, debt...100s of billions stolen out of Alberta and Sask., BC, Ont. since the 1960s, 70s. Equalization (money laundering into kebec) Kebek steals over 50% EVERY SINGLE YEAR. This became entrenched in his commie charter = kebek communist Pierre Trudeaus constitution of 1982. Since then, 25 years of Liberal govts have made things worse. 18 years of 'Conservative' govts, the exact same thing. Kebeks Charter = 10s of billions stolen out of Ottawa yearly and funneled into quebec and other metis (they are not french) – towns and companies, all across the country every year, all disguised as grants, subsides, equalization, transfers, bilingualism (code for french) – only outside quebec while kebec bans our language, history = bills 22, 178, 101, 96. Multiculturalism (only outside kebec), massive government growth, control, censorship, surveillance, taxes and debt. Canada now just liberals masquerading as conservatives, the rest, communists masquerading as liberals. ’French power’ in all provinces. They are revising, eliminating our BNA history all over the country as they rename, remove all things English, Scottish. Election fraud? YES, guaranteed. Why? Simple, they lie about everything. Welcome to Marxist - commie Canada where your vote is meaningless. Why? Bigoted = Socialist = marixst = commie = kebec runs the nation. This IS the problem, and No party, NO ‘leader’ will touch it. ‘Cons’ Poliver, Ford ?...nothing, not a word. “First quebec, and Ottawa and then the entire country…” ‘french power..." PET. $ Seriously, how do we get these lying, crooked, corrupt greedy metis bigots out of Ottawa, Queens Park? We have no-one to vote for. Liberal, Tory, same old story. Stop all immigration now. Repeal the charter. Deport now. Kick kebek out = Fix Canada. Or break up Canada. HELP

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PRAIRIESUN615530's avatar

OR...like millions of Canadians have already done - Exodus out of Canada since 2015 then 2022 when the writing of the future of Canada was being carved in stone following the Freedom Convoy smackdown when the bravest of our 21st century unpaid soldiers driving trucks rose up to protect the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada.

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Sibylle Bay's avatar

Regarding the ostriches, here is a highly qualified expert whose testimony was rejected by the court : https://x.com/jasonlavigneab/status/1971719069327044700?s=46&t=Lzi7vtgYI7xqb6YMCUoRag

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