EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA—With the whole world watching and holding its breath, Canada’s Supreme Court slammed the brakes on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) brutal plan to massacre 400 healthy ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms. The farm, located in the quiet Kootenay town of Edgewood, British Columbia, has become the focal point of a contentious legal and very public battle over the fate of the ostriches.

“We are all here to celebrate today, no death!” farm spokeswoman Katie Pasitney, daughter of farm co-owner Karen Espersen, holding back tears, told supporters as her attorney was telling her the details of Supreme Court’s stay over the phone.

On September 24, the Supreme Court of Canada granted an interim stay, halting the CFIA order to cull the flock of ostriches due t

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