{"id":166683,"date":"2025-09-24T18:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166683\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:45:11","slug":"b-c-ostrich-cull-stay-granted-as-hay-bale-wall-burned-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166683\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. ostrich cull: Stay granted as hay-bale wall burned by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court of Canada has granted a stay in the destruction of a flock of ostriches until the court mulls an application for leave to appeal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298208_703_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur lawyer called and Supreme Court of Canada has granted us an interim stay,\u201d Katie Pasitney with the Universal Ostrich Farm said on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to find out the specifics, but we\u2019ve been granted an interim stay by Supreme Court of Canada. The animals are not dying today, and they\u2019re not probably dying tomorrow, but we are going to be allowed to exhaust our full legal options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pastiney said this buys the farm more time to fight the order.<\/p>\n<p>The high court\u2019s document, supplied by the farm\u2019s lawyer Umar Sheikh, says the order stays the enforcement of the CFIA\u2019s \u201cstamping-out policy\u201d until the application for leave to appeal is dismissed or, if leave to appeal is granted, until the case is disposed of.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Two people arrested at ostrich farm standoff'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5P_KEL_OSTRICH_CULL_SEP_WEB.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:01<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo people arrested at ostrich farm standoff\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the hay-bale wall set up around the flock of ostriches was burned by fire early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11446075\/tylenol-stock-trump-claims-autism\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758739509_680_abc3955ec5a3f783ae14400516839f475a9126c67337c93a3d1cf4f99bae8562.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tStock in Tylenol\u2019s parent company rallies after Trump\u2019s unproven claims\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11448115\/ice-detention-facility-shooting-dallas\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" 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bales, which are stacked about three metres high.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions at the Universal Ostrich Farm have been high since Monday, after officers with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and RCMP officers arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Espersen, co-owner of the farm, and Pasitney, her daughter, were both taken into custody for refusing to leave the farm on Tuesday, though they were released later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>They have been trying to prevent a cull of ostriches ordered by regulators when the herd was infected with avian flu last year.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters gathered at the farm as well, arguing that the birds should be studied for scientific purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p>-with files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Supreme Court of 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