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Canadian firing squad opens fire on more than 300 ostriches after rescue efforts fail

November 8, 2025 | | Print Article

A horrifying scene went down in Canada when a firing squad opened fire on more than 300 ostriches after the country’s Supreme Court refused to block a government order to cull the birds.

The massacre took place on Friday at the Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, British Columbia, where avian flu was detected in December 2024. The fate of the ostriches hung in the balance as a legal battle played out in the courts, drawing international attention as U.S. officials offered to give a home to the doomed birds.

Health and Human Services (HHS) head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, who serves as the top administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), mounted the rescue effort, which also had a supporter in billionaire grocery mogul and New York-based talk radio host John Catsimatidis, but the offer was snubbed by the northern neighbor.

Their efforts were for naught when the Canadian Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to spare the flock on Thursday, pronouncing a death sentence upon the poor ostriches who never stood a chance.

“That’s a real f–k you to everyone in the United States,” Catsimatidis recently told the New York Post, before the Canadian high court refused to spare the birds.

“As part of its disease response policy, the CFIA has culled the ostrich population on a farm in Edgewood, British Columbia. The premises is still quarantined under the Health of Animals Act,” the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a statement after the deed was done.

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“All depopulation activities were completed under CFIA veterinary supervision,” the agency said, as if having veterinarians present somehow lessened the wanton cruelty of the slaughter, which lasted for hours as supporters outside pleaded for the government goons to stop shooting.

Conservative MP Scott Anderson blasted the state over its shocking mass murder of the defenseless ostriches who were herded into a kill pen and gunned down.

“The Supreme Court ruling yesterday removed the last chance these decades old ostriches had, and I sympathize with tens of thousands of Canadians who have been caught up in the drama unfolding on a farm in Edgewood, BC,” he said on Friday, adding “I think it goes to underscore the structural need for change within the CFIA.”

X users reacted to the tragic end to a story that underscores the callousness of the left-wing Canadian government.

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“What they did was brought war to a farm in the middle of the night,” said Katie Pasitney, the daughter of one of the farm’s owners.

“They brought guns, they brought ammunition and they brought war to a peaceful, loving farm with hundreds of decades-old animals that had so much life to live,” she added, according to The New York Times.

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