Canada's highest court says it will rule next Thursday whether to tackle a bitter dispute between the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and a British Columbia ostrich farm over the ordered destruction of its flock due to an avian flu outbreak.

Both sides staked out their positions Friday after the Supreme Court of Canada's announcement, with Universal Ostrich Farms' spokeswoman calling on supporters to converge on the property, and the CFIA rebutting online suggestions it had already started secretly killing the birds.

A list of leave applications to be ruled upon on Nov. 6 includes the challenge by the farm to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's Dec. 31, 2024, cull order.

If the court decides not to hear the case and lifts a stay on the cull, there would be no legal impediment to the k

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