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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford respond to media on the Ostriches

July 22, 2025 Source: Premier of Ontario YouTubeDuring a Press Conference held by Ontario Premier Doug Ford on July 22, 2025, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Premier Doug Ford answer...

Feathers vs. Feds: What the Appeal Court Just Heard Could Change Everything

Connie Shield Substack July 16, 2025 Source: Substack A breakdown of the Universal Ostrich Farms appeal that could shake the foundations of Canada’s biosecurity regime Universal Ostrich Farms (UOF) brought...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. letter to Honorable Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, urges CFIA to delay culling of ostriches

July 15, 2025It has been 182 days of no illness amongst our almost 400 healthy ostriches.As We embark on our journey home from Ottawa.Thank you Robert Kennedy, Dr. Oz and...

John A. Catsimatidis letter to Prime Minister of Canada, urges compassionate, science-informed action and a balanced humane approach for the nearly 400 ostriches in the UOF vs. CFIA decision

July 15, 2025Letter from Billionaire New York radio host John Catsimatidis to Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honorable Mark Carney, concerning the UOF vs. CFIA Federal Court appeal hearing...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #12 Part 2 Reassortment and Mutation

July 15, 2025Edgewood, BC Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements (May 31, 2025):Update on the CFIA’s actions at an HPAI infected premises at a BC ostrich farm CFIA’s basis for...

Join the Ottawa Court Hearing July 15, 2025

Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. v. Canadian Food Inspection Agency Join us at the Federal Court of Appeal on Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM EST (6:30 AM PST) In-Person:...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #12 Part 1 Reassortment and Mutation

July 8, 2025Edgewood, BC Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements (May 31, 2025):Update on the CFIA’s actions at an HPAI infected premises at a BC ostrich farm CFIA’s basis for...

Ottawa Court Date, July 15, 2025

Edgewood, BC Official Announcement: Federal Court of Appeal date is set. Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. v. Canadian Food Inspection Agency The Court appeal is set down to be heard at...

Farm Aid Canada Event July 11-13, 2025

Farm Aid Canada (“Live-Stock”), hosted at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, BC Save the date! July 11-13, 2025 Live Music Festival to fund legal defense of Universal Ostrich Farms and to help...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #11 Part 3 HPAI and LPAI

June 26, 2025Edgewood, BC Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements (May 31, 2025):Update on the CFIA’s actions at an HPAI infected premises at a BC ostrich farm CFIA’s basis for...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #11 Part 2 HPAI and LPAI

June 22, 2025Lulu has joined Frank … Fed Up with Feds FalsehoodsCFIA Disinformation #11 Part 2 – HPAI and LPAIEdgewood, BC – June 22, 2025Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements...

June 20, 2025 Emergency Stay Granted

June 20, 2025 – Update from Universal Ostrich Farms Today, June 20, 2025, another win…an Emergency Stay was granted. Universal Ostrich Farm won an emergency stay order today, until approximately...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #11 Part 1 HPAI and LPAI

June 17, 2025Lulu has joined Frank … Fed Up with Feds FalsehoodsCFIA Disinformation #11 Part 1 – HPAI and LPAIEdgewood, BC – June 17, 2025Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #10 Stamping-Out Policy

Frank is Fed Up with the Feds FalsehoodsCFIA Disinformation #10 – Stamping-Out PolicyEdgewood, BC – June 12, 2025Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements (May 31, 2025):Update on the CFIA’s actions...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #9 Stamping-Out Policy

Frank is Fed Up with the Feds FalsehoodsCFIA Disinformation #9 – Stamping-Out PolicyEdgewood, BC – June 11, 2025Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements (May 31, 2025):Update on the CFIA’s actions...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #8 International Trade

Frank is Fed Up with the Feds FalsehoodsCFIA Disinformation #8 – International TradeEdgewood, BC – June 10, 2025Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements (May 31, 2025):Update on the CFIA’s actions...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #7 Cooperation and Fines

Frank is Fed Up with the Feds FalsehoodsEdgewood, BC – June 8, 2025Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements (May 31, 2025):Update on the CFIA’s actions at an HPAI infected premises...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #6b Biosecurity

Frank is Fed Up with the Feds FalsehoodsEdgewood, BC – June 7, 2025Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements (May 31, 2025):Update on the CFIA’s actions at an HPAI infected premises...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #6a Biosecurity

Frank is Fed Up with the Feds FalsehoodsEdgewood, BC – June 6, 2025Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements (May 31, 2025):Update on the CFIA’s actions at an HPAI infected premises...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #4 and #5 Facilities and Industry

Frank is Fed Up with the Feds FalsehoodsEdgewood, BC – June 5, 2025Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements (May 31, 2025):Update on the CFIA’s actions at an HPAI infected premises...

Frankly Speaking – CFIA Disinformation #1, #2, #3 Research and Unique Genetics

Frank is Fed Up with the Feds FalsehoodsCFIA Disinformation #1, #2, and #3Edgewood, BC – June 4, 2025Disinformation Response to two CFIA Statements (May 31, 2025):Update on the CFIA’s actions...

Official Statement from Universal Ostrich Farms Inc., June 2, 2025

Universal Ostrich Farm Urges Scientific Review Before Unjustified Culling of Healthy BirdsEdgewood, BC – June 2, 2025Response to Friday’s CFIA releaseKey Messages:Only 2 of more than 400 ostriches were tested...

US Cancels More than $700 Million Funding for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine

Reuters, May 29, 2025The Trump administration has terminated a $590 million contract with Moderna, initially awarded by the Biden administration in January, for the late-stage development of a bird flu...

Canada’s Hidden Farm Crisis – How CFIA’s ‘Disease Response’ Protocol Is Destroying Livelihoods—And Going Unchecked

Substack, Shirley Guertin, May 26, 2025The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) enforces policies under the Health of Animals Act that allow unannounced inspections and rapid livestock culling without farmer recourse.Suspected...

Dr. Oz joins Canadian Ostrich Farm’s ostriches facing death, offers his 900-acre Florida ranch

New York Post, May 26, 2025Dr. Mehmet Oz, a prominent TV personality and Trump administration official, has joined efforts to save approximately 400 ostriches facing culling in British Columbia due...

Avian flu poster child, 13-year-old Joselynn, joins fight to save B.C. ostriches from cull

Joselynn, May 24, 2025BREAKING: Avian flu poster child, 13-year-old Joselynn, joins fight to save B.C. ostriches from cull, who is deemed Canada’s first person to catch the avian flu. On...

South African-Canadian protester camping at Universal Ostrich Farm shares that South Africa has abandoned blanket culling policies

Mocha Bezirgan, May 24, 2025“Culling healthy animals has no moral value whatsoever,” says South African-Canadian protester Segall Farrell, who has been camping at the Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, BC...

Letter from Robert F Kennedy, Jr, Secretary, US Dept of Health and Human Services, the NIH Director, and FDA Commissioner

Secretary Kennedy, May 23, 2025 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently sent a letter to President Paul MacKinnon of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, expressing deep appreciation...

BREAKING: Second Ostrich Found Dead, Believed to Have Been Shot

Mocha Bezirgan, May 23, 2025BREAKING: Second Ostrich Found Dead, Believed to Have Been Shot Farmers at the ostrich farm the Canadian government plans to cull woke up to another heartbreaking...

Official Statement from Universal Ostrich Farms Inc., May 21, 2025

While questions are always welcome, imagine the progress we would all make if every citizen held the government to this same level of scrutiny. What is the goal here? To...

CFIA says B.C. ostrich cull will go ahead despite regional district refusing to accept the carcasses, CBC News

Federal agency says dates for cull will not be shared with public in advanceCBC News | May 18, 2025The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says it is going ahead with...

The Canadian Government is Getting Ready to SLAUGHTER Nearly 400 HEALTHY Ostriches! – Viva Frei

Viva Frei, May 15, 2025This is the update in the British Columbia Universal Ostrich Farm case. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued an order to KILL nearly 400 HEALTHY ostriches...

Supporters converge on B.C. ostrich farm as federal food agency confirms cull of flock, National Post

A Federal Court ruling has rejected the farm’s bid to prevent the killings, which were ordered after an outbreak of avian fluNational Post | May 14, 2025 Operators of a...

RDCK votes to refuse ostrich carcasses at landfills until testing updated, Nelson Star

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has ordered that the birds be killed.Nelson Star | May 15, 2025The Regional District of Central Kootenay board voted on May 15 to not accept...

RDCK Regional District of Central Kootenay Board Meeting – Saving the Ostriches

RDCK Observer, May 15, 2025 Transcript:Chair, Aidan McLaren-Caux: There’s nothing that we can do beyond advocacy. Because it’s not, I don’t want to be the person to say it’s not...

Protesters gather at B.C. farm as ostriches set to be killed over bird flu fears, CBC News

CBC News | May 14, 2025 Universal Ostrich lost court case seeking to overturn order from Canadian Food Inspection AgencyThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says the cull of a...

RDCK urged to reject ostrich carcass disposal and avoid ‘environmental risk’, Castanet News

A community group is urging the regional district to refuse to accept at the Ootischenia Landfill (above) the nearly 400 ostriches that could be killed in the cull from Edgewood’s...

Scott Anderson, Conservative MP, Visits Universal Ostrich Farms

May 14, 2025 – Scott Anderson, Conservative MP (Vernon—Lake Country—Monashee), visited the ostrich farm following the federal court decision upholding CFIA’s order to cull the ostriches. During the visit, he...

May 13, 2025 Update From the Farm

May 13, 2025 – Karen Esperson provides an update from Universal Ostrich Farms. Transcript:Hi everyone, this is Karen at the Ostrich Farm. Uhh, the day came, you know, we never...

Federal Court Decision in Universal Ostrich Farms Inc v. Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Dear friends and supporters,We are absolutely devastated to share today’s Federal Court decision, issued on May 13, 2025. The court ruled in favour of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA),...

Katie Pasitney from Universal Ostrich Farm on the Shadoe Davis Show

Shadoe Davis, May 12, 2025Katie Pasitney from Universal Ostrich Farm joins the Shadoe Davis show for an update

Three MLAs are supporting a B.C. farming family whose 400 ostriches are to be culled

CTV News | The Canadian Press, May 8, 2025 The battle over a B.C. farm facing a mandated cull made its way to the legislature Thursday. VICTORIA — A member...

Jordan Kealy, MLA for Peace River North, Presents Universal Ostrich Farms During BC Legislature Question Period

Watch on Facebook May 8, 2025 – Jordan Kealy, MLA for Peace River North, presented the case of Universal Ostrich Farms during Oral Question Period in the BC Legislature.The question...

May 6, 2025 Update From the Farm

May 6, 2025 – Katie Pasitney provides an update from Universal Ostrich Farms. Visit Us at:301 Langille Road, Edgewood, BC Your support is appreciated as we await the court’s decision....

Press Release – May 2, 2025: Planned Burial of 400 Ostrich Carcasses at Ootischenia Landfill Before Court Decision

Edgewood, British Columbia — May 2, 2025 — Credible reports indicate that the Ootischenia Landfill, under the jurisdiction of the Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK), is preparing to bury...

Jordan Kealy, MLA for Peace River North Visits the Ostrich Farm

Jordan Kealy, MLA⋅May 2, 2025The Universal Ostrich Farm needs your help to get this message out and put pressure on the Federal Government and the CFIA.The CFIA is planning to...

April 17, 2025 Update From the Farm

April 17, 2025 – Katie Pasitney from Universal Ostrich Farms provides an update on the family’s legal battle with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to save their ostriches. Share...

April 16, 2025 – Judicial Review Update (Day 2)

Katie Pasitney from Universal Ostrich Farms Day 2 of the Judicial Review @ 701 West Georgia Street, Vancouver BC. Katie provides an update from Federal Court, where the case of...

Federal Court reviews avian flu cull order for B.C. ostrich farm – CBC News

Universal Ostrich in Edgewood had faced Feb. 1 deadline to cull birds after H5N1 was detected on farm CBC News · Akshay Kulkarni · Posted: Apr 15, 2025 Lawyers for a B.C. ostrich farm, which...

Future of 400 B.C. ostriches being decided in federal court room – Global News

A controversial order to cull a flock of ostriches at a West Kootenay B.C. farm is now the subject of a judicial review in federal court. Global News, by Klaudia...