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Canada pushes on with ‘complete depopulation’ plan to cull 400 ostriches

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Karen Espersen, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms, is embraced by supporters and her daughter, Katie Pasitney, at the farm in Edgewood, British Columbia, on Thursday. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock

Canada’s food inspection agency says it plans to begin a “complete depopulation” of hundreds of ostriches at a farm after the country’s top court declined to block the controversial cull.

On Thursday, the supreme court said it would not take up a case that has catalyzed a fierce protest by the farm owners and protesters – as well as senior figures in the Trump administration, who have decried the public health effort as government overreach.

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