EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — The Supreme Court of Canada likely won’t decide until at least Oct. 30 whether to hear a last-ditch appeal against a planned cull of ostriches at a British Columbia farm, where an opponent of the cull was arrested on Friday.
Video shared on Facebook showed social media presenter Jim Kerr being handcuffed and led away by two RCMP officers.
Neither police nor Kerr — who has been at the farm in Edgewood, B.C., since April and has tens of thousands of social media followers — responded to requests for comment.
But farm spokeswoman Katie Pasitney said in a Facebook post that Kerr was arrested after he crossed a quarantine line at the farm, where the owners have been waiting for a court ruling on the fate of their hundreds of birds that the Canadian Food I