Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Mainstream media buries the truth of B.C. ostrich story

00:00:00.580 Hello, my friends. You know, we've done almost 100 stories on the ostrich farm.

00:00:05.560 Sometimes I call Rebel News the ostrich news network. We've really covered the story well.

00:00:10.300 And I think that's part of the way to fight back because like the truckers,

00:00:14.120 the entire establishment is on the other side of this.

00:00:16.940 But we are there with the people and with the ostriches. 0.99

00:00:20.220 So that's today's show. It's really a visual story. You really have to see it.

00:00:24.680 Can you do me a favor and go to rebelnewsplus.com and click subscribe?

00:00:29.080 That's just eight bucks a month, which might not sound like a lot to you,

00:00:31.820 but it really adds up for us. It allows us to pay our bills because we take no money from the government.

00:00:36.600 And it shows. Tonight, the best of our coverage of the ostrich farm.

00:00:42.060 It's October 17th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:44.420 You're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:00:58.180 Oh, hi, everybody. You know, the ostrich story is on hold a little bit

00:01:03.040 because the Supreme Court of Canada is still weighing whether or not they're going to hear the case.

00:01:08.560 In the meantime, as I showed you yesterday, the CBC is in full character assassination mode.

00:01:14.280 It's really deeply embarrassing to see how easily they're led around like a poodle by this liberal government.

00:01:19.660 But if you want real reporting, well, that's where the independent press, the citizen journalists,

00:01:24.040 that's their time to shine. So today, let me introduce you to what I call the best of our ostrich coverage.

00:01:31.820 Now, it's just a small fraction. We have close to 100 reports we've done on the subject.

00:01:37.020 And I believe that Rebel News has some paternity over the fact that the world is talking about these ostriches now. 0.97

00:01:44.240 Certainly not the regime media which have tried to cover up the story or defame the farmers.

00:01:49.820 So enjoy our coverage from almost a year ago when Drea first got the news.

00:01:56.480 And even myself and Sheila Gunn-Reed and Sidney Fizard and others on our team have gone down there

00:02:02.140 and we'll continue to follow the story to see how it unfolds.

00:02:04.860 So for the rest of the show, here is the best of our ostrich coverage.

00:02:08.840 Katie, another miracle. The birds are alive.

00:02:30.920 Yes, they are. And they are eating their hay right now and they're in the sunshine and happy.

00:02:36.340 And it's 271 days. Animals that are healthy and alive.

00:02:42.740 I always refer back to that Monday, though, when they showed up.

00:02:45.580 And I believe I want to stop it there and say that's when they were the healthiest, you know,

00:02:50.860 and the happiest and the happiest because they had us around them caring for them and they weren't being neglected.

00:02:56.120 So, but again, we can just be grateful for the miracle as we enter the weekend that these animals are still alive behind us

00:03:02.640 and what we're all fighting for is working.

00:03:05.380 Yeah, suddenly things looked a whole lot better when your veterinarian was scheduled to come on site and look through things.

00:03:11.760 All of a sudden they seem to be eating well and things like that.

00:03:14.760 But let's talk about making it to Thanksgiving weekend.

00:03:18.720 Myself and Sheila are going to go home for the long weekend, be with our families and Lyndon and then come back.

00:03:25.140 But what's going to be happening here on the ground?

00:03:28.760 Yes, so we have a lot to be thankful for.

00:03:31.880 And that is the unity, the casting away the shadow of division from mainstream media

00:03:37.560 and people who continue to focus on things that just really don't pertain to this cause.

00:03:42.240 And we've talked to the RCMP and we even said to them that we would love to offer them some Thanksgiving dinner

00:03:48.420 so that they eat warm meals while they're here.

00:03:50.300 This is about bridging the division and this is about saying we're all human

00:03:56.820 but we've got to recognize where our faults are and where we can stand up and create unity and be powerful.

00:04:04.860 So there's a lot of turkeys.

00:04:06.600 Thank you to whoever has donated turkeys to the farm for the supporters and for the family

00:04:12.480 to eat a really wonderful Thanksgiving meal this weekend and resources or other products such as potatoes

00:04:18.720 and gravies and vegetables.

00:04:20.960 So I think there is going to be a beautiful, we are having a good dinner here this weekend.

00:04:24.860 There will be prayer like we always have

00:04:26.480 and there is going to be a fantastic conversation as always with a warm fire

00:04:31.420 but there's a lot to be grateful for

00:04:33.800 and I think we just have to stay focused on the change that is possible here.

00:04:38.500 You know, these animals are heartbeats. 0.62

00:04:41.140 We have to continue to be their voices

00:04:42.560 and call out those people that are actually directly, you know, in conflict

00:04:49.520 with creating negligence, the negligence and the inhumane handling of our animals that are our animals.

00:04:56.640 Well, there you have it.

00:04:58.120 If you're seeing this video, that means the birds are safe for Thanksgiving weekend

00:05:03.880 because we will not post until the Supreme Court is closed for the long weekend.

00:05:08.740 Any final words?

00:05:10.860 I think just really reminding the general public

00:05:13.740 and everybody around the world that is watching,

00:05:16.720 this is a much deeper issue and I keep being reminded of that.

00:05:20.400 I want to say this is about trade politics

00:05:22.420 but what we're really dealing with here with the antibody research

00:05:25.980 that we've been involved in for the last four to five years

00:05:29.020 is that we have something substantial

00:05:31.520 and we have something that goes against the vaccine reliance,

00:05:35.060 the push of that with big pharma.

00:05:36.980 We have the World Health Organization

00:05:39.220 that has been leading the charge with the World Animal Health Organization

00:05:42.660 and we need to really directly, I think, ask these organizations

00:05:48.900 how can we better protect countries

00:05:52.480 that are involved in taking their directives?

00:05:55.660 So could it be as simple for these animals behind me

00:05:58.260 pulling them out of poultry

00:05:59.860 and let's show that we can work together.

00:06:03.400 These animals are not poultry.

00:06:05.100 They offer extreme, you know, advanced scientific advantage

00:06:09.420 in therapeutics with the antibodies that they hold.

00:06:12.160 One ostrich egg is equivalent to 100 chicken eggs worth of antibodies

00:06:15.660 and there is a natural way to target the viruses and disease in the future

00:06:21.520 and it stands behind me.

00:06:23.220 So do we contact them maybe and ask them, you know,

00:06:26.860 why can't we just do this?

00:06:28.300 Is there a better way?

00:06:29.280 How do we work together, better together as nations?

00:06:32.280 Could we as nations still trade

00:06:34.060 but maybe offer farms an exemption of, say, 42 days

00:06:38.420 and, you know, two 21-day periods of testing, isolation, testing, and monitoring

00:06:45.100 but still be allowed to trade while we are in isolation

00:06:48.820 and while until we are testing clear.

00:06:52.920 But again, because the really sad fact about it is the animals behind me,

00:06:56.840 the vet had said to our vet that was out there,

00:06:59.100 a Canadian food inspection agency,

00:07:00.360 that even if they all test negative, they have to die.

00:07:03.400 So we have to address that problem.

00:07:04.880 But yeah, so we're dealing with non-elected governing bodies,

00:07:08.380 the World Health Organization

00:07:09.460 and the World Animal Health Organization

00:07:11.340 giving us directives as a country

00:07:13.360 so on a federal, provincial, and municipal level

00:07:15.440 we're really not making the decisions for Canadians

00:07:17.360 and we need to protect our farms.

00:07:19.680 And we're dealing with overreach from bureaucrats

00:07:22.740 because I noticed in the court cases

00:07:25.040 when convenient, the CFIA points to the international,

00:07:29.440 you know, stamping out policy that's recognized

00:07:32.560 coming from the WHO.

00:07:34.880 But then when you point out that they're superseding that,

00:07:38.880 well, then all of a sudden, well, no, no,

00:07:40.420 it's our policy and things like that.

00:07:42.780 And that's on the overstepping, the jurisdiction,

00:07:45.680 or the, you know, look at the warrants that we received.

00:07:48.640 My aunt and uncle have a property here on this quarantine side.

00:07:52.880 That is their private property yet.

00:07:54.680 They were able to obtain a search warrant on their property.

00:07:58.680 That goes till October 22nd.

00:08:01.560 My aunt has arrived.

00:08:02.880 They're allowing her to sleep in her trailer. 0.99

00:08:05.080 They've owned this property for 18 years.

00:08:07.600 And, but they're not allowed to wander around their own yard.

00:08:11.840 They have a garden.

00:08:12.480 They need to get their garlic out of.

00:08:15.140 And the RCMP has communicated with the CFIA.

00:08:19.220 Listen, this little family just wants to get their garlic out of their garden

00:08:22.460 so that it's harvested and they don't lose years of their work.

00:08:27.800 And the answer is completely no from CFIA.

00:08:32.160 What is wrong from a family wanting to go under even,

00:08:35.260 they said, even if the RCMP watched them,

00:08:37.260 just pick their garlic.

00:08:38.320 That's all they're asking for.

00:08:39.700 There is such an overreach with no oversight for the CFIA

00:08:45.600 that, again, we're just screaming from the mountaintops

00:08:48.280 for accountability, you know, no more oversight

00:08:52.420 and for them to have less freedom for making their own rules.

00:08:56.560 And the RCMP should be able to overrule that and say,

00:09:00.100 no, we're going to let this little family pick their garlic. 1.00

00:09:02.040 They're doing nothing wrong.

00:09:03.260 I think the RCMP are really surprised with what they're seeing here too.

00:09:06.360 I have a full interview with your cousin, Alison,

00:09:10.060 going even in more depth about what's happening to them

00:09:12.720 now that they've returned to what should be their property

00:09:15.660 but is being held hostage by the CFIA.

00:09:18.740 That will be at savetheostridges.com.

00:09:20.740 I'll be following what's happening from my home, you know,

00:09:24.780 so my husband, proof of life for my husband.

00:09:27.320 Thank you.

00:09:28.000 And your kids, I know.

00:09:29.660 It's time.

00:09:30.240 This weekend is about family.

00:09:31.620 We've got to celebrate family.

00:09:32.860 And we have to be celebrating, you know,

00:09:35.920 even what you do for as a journalist and what you're bringing.

00:09:38.960 You're bringing the truth to the screen.

00:09:40.840 And we need more of that.

00:09:43.560 So you can go and celebrate in what you guys do as Rubble. 0.59

00:09:48.020 And the mainstream media is getting so desperate.

00:09:50.040 They're really, I guess, working for the CFIA overtime, it seems,

00:09:53.560 going after you guys.

00:09:54.960 Now they're starting to go after us.

00:09:56.780 They keep trying to interview that Angela, Dr. Angela Rasmussen,

00:10:02.240 saying she's impartial.

00:10:04.040 She's working in the vaccine department in the University of Saskatchewan.

00:10:10.060 And if you look, Toronto Star came out, put this garbage piece.

00:10:13.640 They want to make this political.

00:10:15.780 They want to politicize these birds. 0.98

00:10:17.540 And they tried to say far-right Rebel News.

00:10:19.940 Well, it always backfires when they actually name Rebel News

00:10:22.440 because now more.

00:10:23.380 We'll see what's really going on here.

00:10:26.200 And thank you guys for always being invested in this story,

00:10:29.200 just like myself here.

00:10:30.300 Thank you, Katie, for the fight on behalf of farmers across the country

00:10:33.600 and so many different layers of freedom.

00:10:36.360 Freedom for property, farming, food rights, livelihoods, scientific freedom.

00:10:42.720 Science over speculation.

00:10:44.320 Let's go for that again.

00:10:45.280 Discovery over destruction.

00:10:47.540 And you know what?

00:10:48.040 The RCMP have made their statements to us,

00:10:49.840 and I want to thank you for that.

00:10:51.340 They said in all the support groups and protesting that they've ever seen,

00:10:56.460 they've never seen such a kind group that is so focused and dedicated

00:11:03.180 on what they're fighting for, and that's the ostriches' survival.

00:11:07.280 Because we all know where that has a ripple effect to go once these animals are gone.

00:11:11.460 And if we can't save them, then what farm is safe in Canada due to a broken policy?

00:11:15.160 But the RCMP said, we're not extremists.

00:11:20.020 I mean, you know, all the labeling Angela Rasmussen, we're not extremists.

00:11:24.300 Neither are we.

00:11:25.240 I'm not a cult leader.

00:11:26.760 I mean, you know, no one's going to the train station here.

00:11:30.260 So we're good.

00:11:30.840 There's no Kool-Aid.

00:11:31.680 There is no Kool-Aid in that tent.

00:11:33.900 No Kool-Aid in that tent.

00:11:35.540 There is a tea.

00:11:36.660 There's a very delightful tea that's going around with citrusy.

00:11:40.920 But I thank you.

00:11:42.060 And a happy Thanksgiving to you, Drea.

00:11:43.620 Yeah, you too.

00:11:44.360 And to your family.

00:11:44.680 Thank you so much.

00:11:45.200 Yeah.

00:11:46.180 We love you.

00:11:46.680 Well, if they freed me from this prison, if that railway train was mine,

00:12:03.560 it wouldn't be a crime to shout out on the line.

00:12:07.780 Now I'm far from Ottawa prison.

00:12:10.660 That's where I want to stay.

00:12:13.460 And I let this big red trucker 0.81

00:12:19.680 Haunt our blues away

00:12:43.460 So I'm calling on the RCMP to do their job as well

00:12:57.440 and not allow an organization to hide behind their badges

00:13:01.460 and hide behind their tape

00:13:03.460 and allow them to commit animal, acts of animal cruelty.

00:13:09.420 And they should be charged.

00:13:10.580 We're calling on Courtney Fotheringham and Troy Bork

00:13:13.140 and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency

00:13:14.940 to be charged for animal cruelty.

00:13:17.140 We have the evidence.

00:13:18.500 There should be a full investigation done on this.

00:13:20.520 This should not be just left alone.

00:13:24.660 Righteous Outrage is taking place at Universal Ostrich Farms

00:13:28.500 in Edgewood, British Columbia.

00:13:30.280 Many of you have been following our reports at SaveTheOstriches.com

00:13:34.820 So you already know that this farm has been held captive

00:13:38.720 by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency

00:13:40.960 who's hell-bent on culling what was a healthy flock of nearly 400 ostriches

00:13:47.100 who've been healthy and asymptomatic from the avian flu for 266 days.

00:13:53.300 But the story has taken a dark turn.

00:13:56.080 Now, when the CFIA has their care and has barred and arrested two of the farmers

00:14:03.480 who are forbidden from caring and even seeing their animals up close,

00:14:07.940 we now see that allegations that the CFIA neglected an injured hen named Spirit

00:14:14.300 are panning out to really look true.

00:14:17.500 In recent days, we've seen leaked footage come forward

00:14:20.860 that we've published at Rebel News that showed the hen in a complete deteriorated state

00:14:25.800 from the last time the farmers had seen her to when they were in their care

00:14:30.220 and she was dying alone.

00:14:32.740 But now, footage has also shown what appears to be CFIA officials

00:14:37.460 taking the electrolytes the farmers have been pleading with them

00:14:42.040 to give the sick bird, who is now dead, and pretending to do so.

00:14:47.720 I've reached out to the CFIA at the time at this report.

00:14:51.380 I have not heard back.

00:14:53.180 But here is what Katie Pisidny, spokesperson for the farm

00:14:56.800 and adult daughter of co-owner of the farm, had to say.

00:15:00.880 All right, Katie, it's been about a week of this standoff

00:15:03.240 and it's getting more and more dark each day.

00:15:06.400 We saw the leaked footage of Spirit dying alone.

00:15:12.100 And now the footage has come out that appears to show.

00:15:17.080 Well, why don't you describe what it shows?

00:15:19.120 Yeah, we were just fortunate enough.

00:15:21.740 And I say fortunate because this gives us an opportunity of leverage

00:15:24.960 to show the Canadian people what the organization is clearly hiding from.

00:15:32.860 Is there acts of animal cruelty?

00:15:35.800 There was a drone that went in and we had been asking for days, just a visual on her.

00:15:42.760 Pictures, can we see her?

00:15:45.180 Could we have Dave go in and actually administer the tubing?

00:15:48.900 Then we found out from amazing supporters here, they took footage,

00:15:52.840 that that electrolyte bag was being dumped out in an area that was way far away

00:15:58.360 from where she was even, where she has been.

00:16:00.880 And that was really, really disheartening to see that an organization

00:16:05.600 that is in the care of our animals would be lying to us

00:16:11.680 and not be treating them like we've treated them for 35 years

00:16:15.020 and giving them the care that they need.

00:16:16.940 So we found out that she wasn't getting her electrolytes,

00:16:20.160 so she would have been severely dehydrated.

00:16:22.480 Somebody here just finally said, I'm putting a drone in.

00:16:26.220 And we got footage of her in her last moments alone

00:16:31.300 and no Canadian Food Inspection Agency people around her

00:16:35.220 throwing her head back, which is a very clear sign.

00:16:38.140 We know that sign.

00:16:39.060 It's a sign of dying.

00:16:40.860 And it broke our hearts because we would have been with her.

00:16:44.720 She would have never been dehydrated.

00:16:46.400 She would have been cared for.

00:16:48.240 And it was an eye-opener, though, that, you know,

00:16:52.800 I think the world needs to understand that this organization is operating behind the tape.

00:17:01.720 They're being able to hide behind police tape.

00:17:04.120 Literally.

00:17:04.940 They're hiding behind good men and women in badges.

00:17:07.960 And they're allowed to do whatever they want.

00:17:11.020 And they have to be held accountable.

00:17:13.200 They haven't been able to be held accountable ever.

00:17:17.180 And they're being watched.

00:17:18.820 And I said to them, a direct statement to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency,

00:17:23.520 you can't hide from this.

00:17:26.340 The world is watching.

00:17:27.660 The world is going to continue to watch.

00:17:29.100 You can't hide.

00:17:30.100 What are you going to do?

00:17:32.120 Now, after this footage was out and exposed, the CFIA did put out a statement.

00:17:36.600 We've covered that before.

00:17:37.700 I've linked it below.

00:17:38.720 They claim they followed the protocol that you, the farmers, have been requesting.

00:17:43.640 I just want to clarify something.

00:17:45.440 When you were getting quite understandably emotional with the RCMP saying,

00:17:50.260 let us get over there before we knew for sure she passed. 1.00

00:17:53.920 You've got to stop it.

00:17:55.480 This is cruelty.

00:17:57.140 This is animal cruelty.

00:18:00.080 Please, please stop them.

00:18:02.120 Please stop them.

00:18:03.920 I'll get a hold of Ben for you.

00:18:05.000 Please stop them.

00:18:07.180 Please let us just be with her.

00:18:09.760 Let us just be with her.

00:18:11.580 I think it's beyond treatment now.

00:18:13.640 These are our family.

00:18:19.040 They told us yesterday she was moving around and she was backing and getting up.

00:18:25.160 Family doesn't just look like us.

00:18:26.680 And it took us going public and saying that and calling them out today.

00:18:31.180 These are everything we've ever loved.

00:18:32.780 She's dying alone, kicking her head back.

00:18:36.900 She's... 1.00

00:18:38.180 God, please take her. 0.82

00:18:41.080 Please.

00:18:42.440 Oh, God, please take her in peace.

00:18:45.720 This is so unfair.

00:18:48.080 This is an animal cruelty.

00:18:49.180 They're hiding.

00:18:50.420 Yes, Canadian food inspection agencies hide behind your yellow face.

00:18:55.120 They're hiding.

00:18:55.660 They're hiding.

00:18:56.460 They're hiding behind your really important power.

00:18:59.660 They're hiding.

00:19:01.780 They're cowards.

00:19:02.760 They're cowards.

00:19:04.120 In suits that don't even follow their own policy.

00:19:06.080 We know exactly what's going on behind them.

00:19:07.960 Was that the footage you had saw?

00:19:10.100 Them taking the bag and then walking back with it?

00:19:13.880 Yeah, it was just prior to that.

00:19:15.480 So just prior to that, so we had the emotion of them lying to us, which we've kind of known.

00:19:21.100 Why would you cut our cameras?

00:19:22.400 Why would you tape them over?

00:19:23.860 Police wear body cams.

00:19:25.240 Why are the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in such a big situation that they're under

00:19:31.040 the spotlight, especially not be cameraing everything, their movements and their actions

00:19:36.080 and following their protocol and caring for the animals under their care properly?

00:19:40.180 And then obviously, then we found out that she, we saw the footage of her dying.

00:19:43.520 And it was a really big moment.

00:19:45.400 I think the police, we had the police crying.

00:19:48.100 The RCMP were crying because she was right there.

00:19:51.640 And that's what I said, she's right there and she's dying alone.

00:19:55.680 And so it took us days to get the anti-inflammatory really approved and for them to really get

00:20:01.780 a vet working with her.

00:20:03.860 The lack of communication and transparency from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency with

00:20:09.720 our family has been alarming.

00:20:11.480 Yeah.

00:20:11.980 And so you talk to your vet, we'll talk to your vet.

00:20:15.020 They're just cutting you out completely.

00:20:16.580 You email us, we'll email you.

00:20:18.740 And as we know, emails are not immediate.

00:20:22.200 So then you go to their police liaisons.

00:20:24.140 The police liaisons will talk to the RCMP directly.

00:20:26.740 And then they go to talk to Canadian Food Inspection Agency and come back with a message.

00:20:30.280 Are we in grade school?

00:20:31.880 Like, stop being cowards.

00:20:34.300 Yeah.

00:20:34.700 And come to the fence.

00:20:35.740 And the liaison, to be fair, they thought they were doing a good thing.

00:20:39.000 They thought they were giving the electrolytes.

00:20:40.860 So I'm going to reach out to the RCMP about what they have to say about that role in there.

00:20:45.760 And it appears what we're doing here.

00:20:47.800 Now, I want to get some things clear, because when you're looking at the footage, we have

00:20:51.020 the full, it's around five minutes.

00:20:53.580 They start walking around here.

00:20:56.820 They go over to an area.

00:20:58.900 They become a little bit, you can't see what they're doing behind the bush.

00:21:02.080 Tell us why you know that's where Spirit wasn't.

00:21:05.040 And tell us how long it would normally take, because they go and come back within five minutes

00:21:10.660 on this live stream.

00:21:12.100 So you would go.

00:21:13.020 She was not.

00:21:13.700 So there's sections of our farm we knew where she was being housed.

00:21:17.720 It is an injure pen, an injury pen.

00:21:20.580 So we have one that is just half blind that would normally stay in there, one that had 1.00

00:21:25.120 a broken toe.

00:21:26.020 And they just stay in there to stay safe.

00:21:27.700 So they're not amongst the general population so that they could get injured more.

00:21:32.200 And that's where Spirit had been put.

00:21:34.720 We knew that from the PLTs and description.

00:21:39.160 And so when we saw them walking behind the middle of our farm, behind a barn where we

00:21:45.480 knew clearly she wasn't.

00:21:46.900 And then within that time span, not at all.

00:21:49.760 They were walking.

00:21:50.500 They were on foot.

00:21:51.120 They never drove.

00:21:51.860 And then they went behind the bushes with this bag, came out.

00:21:57.240 But the footage as well is them at the very far back corner.

00:22:01.040 So we're talking even that walking distance is a long ways away.

00:22:04.820 And then having the bag still and somebody doing something behind the bag, draining it out.

00:22:10.420 And we knew, so tubing a hen, I mean, you're going in, you're checking her welfare, you're

00:22:16.200 sitting with her, you're going to be placing that tube slowly down her inner throat. 1.00

00:22:22.180 You're going to be administering those electrolytes.

00:22:24.420 You're going to be holding her head up, making sure she's getting all of that down. 0.81

00:22:28.860 You're monitoring her for a little bit after, making sure she's okay.

00:22:32.820 And that doesn't happen in five minutes.

00:22:35.880 Yeah, including the walk.

00:22:36.860 And that's what really stood out to me, especially seeing how weak of a state.

00:22:40.740 The bird was in.

00:22:41.940 There's no way.

00:22:42.780 I mean, it's hard to give kids medicine within five minutes, let alone that situation.

00:22:48.100 She was clearly dehydrated. 0.52

00:22:49.240 She was suffering.

00:22:50.900 And again, no animal should have been suffering alone.

00:22:53.640 They should have had regular vet care, watching her, monitoring her. 0.55

00:22:57.840 And especially in the situation, these aren't their animals.

00:23:02.100 These are our animals.

00:23:03.500 We have an interim state order.

00:23:05.080 And this is really kind of making a mockery of our justice system.

00:23:08.780 So do they just assume that they have the decision already?

00:23:12.380 Because they're acting as though they know what the Supreme Court of Canada is going to say.

00:23:17.260 Why are they allowed to operate this freely?

00:23:20.000 And, you know, preparing for the call, we understood.

00:23:23.460 Okay, moving some machinery into place, getting some equipment, but not touching our animals.

00:23:28.720 Not blocking your cameras, your property, and shielding out you and the world.

00:23:34.540 Now, last question is, what's next for you guys?

00:23:37.160 You guys are already trying to go through the Supreme Court.

00:23:39.420 We're in a waiting period for that to see what the Supreme Court decides.

00:23:44.160 But with all of this apparent neglect, and I'd say animal cruelty from what it appears, what are you calling now?

00:23:52.840 What are you guys doing about that?

00:23:54.260 Well, instead of my mom and I were arrested, and we were arrested for wanting to maintain the animal welfare of our animals and keep them calm, follow through with their routine, and have them comforted by the people that they knew.

00:24:09.920 While there was machinery and strangers going to be operating around them, but we were arrested, so I'm calling on the RCMP to do their job as well, and not allow an organization to hide behind their badges, and hide behind their tape, and allow them to commit acts of animal cruelty, and they should be charged.

00:24:31.360 We're calling on Courtney Fotheringham and Troy Bork and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to be charged for animal cruelty.

00:24:37.480 We have the evidence. There should be a full investigation done on this.

00:24:41.180 This should not be just left alone.

00:24:43.040 They have stated that she had underlying health issues, but the mainstream media is not reporting that she didn't have underlying health issues.

00:24:51.940 She had an injury. She was healed from.

00:24:54.660 She was doing great. We called her spirit.

00:24:57.600 She had such a strong spirit.

00:24:59.580 And then to watch what everybody's missing is that her injuries that she just succumbed to were the drones that were flying extremely low on the Monday from the RCMP.

00:25:10.580 She flipped a fence twice, and she was injured, so she needed her anti-inflammatories.

00:25:17.580 She needed to be tubed. 1.00

00:25:18.740 We needed to monitor that she was drinking and eating, and that is when her health declined, was when the drones flipped her over a fence twice. 1.00

00:25:27.340 It was not declining because of anything else and underlying health conditions.

00:25:31.980 There was an injury, and that injury is what she succumbed to.

00:25:35.580 I'll just show a quick clip of you guys calling immediately like, this bird needs help. Look what you did.

00:25:41.280 You know, we put the signs up today to show us a picture of our hen, right?

00:25:53.860 They're not tubing her. She's just doing the kick of death. 1.00

00:25:57.460 They're not tubing her. They haven't taken care of her.

00:25:59.960 If, I know, just let me speak.

00:26:02.660 Let's go get PLT down for real time.

00:26:04.600 If we, if we would have just been allowed to care for her, she'd be okay.

00:26:10.620 She's dying alone. She's dying alone. 0.99

00:26:13.280 We've got the footage, guys. It's gross.

00:26:15.580 She's dying alone.

00:26:17.660 We would have never done that.

00:26:19.360 Our birds don't die alone.

00:26:21.300 They're loved by us.

00:26:23.500 They're cared.

00:26:24.420 She's alone laying there, dying right there.

00:26:27.400 We can't touch her. We can't be with her.

00:26:31.300 They're not with her. They know she's dying.

00:26:34.660 Because we did those films, she's dying alone.

00:26:38.700 This is the most painful thing.

00:26:40.940 They're right there. They're right there.

00:26:43.500 We're not aggressive.

00:26:45.340 We're not hurting anybody.

00:26:46.820 We just want to give her love.

00:26:49.040 They've been loved for 35 years by us.

00:26:52.320 We would have never let them die alone.

00:26:55.080 She's dying by herself.

00:26:57.400 Because we are being punished by lying, by this tape.

00:27:02.060 We're being punished.

00:27:03.940 We just, it's not fair.

00:27:05.860 We were arrested.

00:27:07.880 And we were trying to do the right thing.

00:27:09.720 And that was to feed our animals.

00:27:11.780 We expect, though, to see a peek,

00:27:13.800 and that there will be follow-up charges

00:27:15.580 on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

00:27:17.660 And those...

00:27:18.500 Yes!

00:27:18.840 Yes!

00:27:19.140 Yes!

00:27:19.260 Yes!

00:27:19.320 Yes!

00:27:19.760 Yes!

00:27:19.820 Yes!

00:27:20.260 Yes!

00:27:20.820 Yes!

00:27:21.820 Yes!

00:27:22.820 Yes!

00:27:23.820 Yes!

00:27:24.820 Yes!

00:27:25.820 Yes!

00:27:27.380 Yes!

00:27:27.980 Yes!

00:27:28.560 Yes!

00:27:28.940 Yes!

00:27:29.500 Yes!

00:27:29.760 Yes!

00:27:30.740 Yes!

00:27:31.440 Yes!

00:27:32.420 and her head was torn back in pain, the people, our family, who loved her were forbidden to comfort her.

00:27:43.420 That is not protection. That is inhumanity in uniform.

00:27:49.420 This isn't just about ostriches. It's about truth versus control, compassion versus compliance,

00:27:56.420 and the soul of a nation that once stood for integrity, decency, and freedom.

00:28:01.420 If the CFIA can hide behind armed officers to cover their fear of the accountability that they need to be held accountable for,

00:28:10.420 then Canada is facing something far darker than a disease outbreak.

00:28:14.420 We are facing a moral outbreak, one where compassion is quarantined and cruelty is being sanctioned.

00:28:22.420 That was Karen Espersen, your mother, co-owner of the farm.

00:28:25.420 I know I said last question, but you've triggered something.

00:28:28.420 You're right. We covered how the mainstream media totally twisted.

00:28:32.420 There's a saying, it's not that propaganda lies to the people.

00:28:37.420 It's that it convinces the people to lie to themselves.

00:28:40.420 And there's been a lot of that happening.

00:28:42.420 But I want to talk about Spirit again.

00:28:45.420 Is the mainstream media, as far as I can see, they're completely ignoring this very clear evidence

00:28:51.420 that looks to prove that the CFIA is neglecting and has potentially contributed to Spirit's death.

00:28:59.420 Is there any coverage? Are they reaching out to you at all about this?

00:29:02.420 Because they are following this story.

00:29:04.420 No, no mainstream media coverage, just a statement by Canadian Food Inspection Agency,

00:29:09.420 which I went through with a rebuttal myself this morning off the government website even.

00:29:14.420 So no, I even reached out to Global just trying to say, I think we need to get some of the facts put straight.

00:29:20.420 You're putting a statement on there about them, but they're wrong.

00:29:23.420 You're leaving out. She had an injury and it was due to the police drones.

00:29:26.420 And you're right, they are neglecting our animals.

00:29:29.420 Here in the front part here, you never see them feed.

00:29:33.420 They do not feed in this corner.

00:29:35.420 And if you know the farm and you know the animals, they all have areas that's their area.

00:29:41.420 And so they've been herding them into this back kill pen zone,

00:29:45.420 getting them comfortable with the place that they're going to murder them.

00:29:48.420 And they're neglecting all the ones that are out here that aren't eating.

00:29:52.420 They don't survive off alfalfa. It's a very important part of their diet,

00:29:56.420 which they're not turning these bales either that they're eating from because, again,

00:30:01.420 they don't want to deal with facing the accountability of the people.

00:30:05.420 And so they're hiding behind police tape.

00:30:08.420 They're hiding behind barns or hiding in the furthest corner of our property right now.

00:30:12.420 And we have to hold this organization accountable.

00:30:15.420 It's been operating with excessive freedom, no accountability and no oversight for years.

00:30:21.420 And so I just think right now, like I said, where are you going to hide?

00:30:24.420 The world is watching. The world's going to continue to watch.

00:30:27.420 And we're definitely not going to stand for animal cruelty or neglect while these animals are in your care.

00:30:32.420 And we need a new way. We need a new platform. We need a new face. We need a new vision.

00:30:37.420 And the Canadian Food Inspection Agency needs a complete redo.

00:30:41.420 Well, there you have it. Katie Pissitney with Universal Ostrich Farms and Rebel News reporting on site. 1.00

00:30:48.420 Well, there you have it.

00:30:50.420 I'm sorry. Oh, Canada. We stand on guard for thee.

00:30:53.420 Oh, Canada. We stand on guard for thee.

00:30:59.420 God, keep our land glorious and free.

00:31:08.420 O Canada, please stand on guard for Thee.

00:31:17.300 O Canada, please stand on guard for Thee.

00:31:28.820 Sidney Vizard for Rebel News.

00:31:30.420 I was recently actually assaulted by a Global News cameraman.

00:31:34.020 Of all people, a cameraman is the one who decided to assault me while I was holding a camera.

00:31:38.340 So we're going to get into this.

00:31:39.700 This is a weird story that happened while I was there at the Universal Ostrich Farms,

00:31:43.940 helping my co-worker Drea Humphrey report on the cull that the Canadian government

00:31:48.980 has planned for these animals that are otherwise healthy.

00:31:51.780 It's a crazy story.

00:31:52.740 There's no reason that the government should try and murder these birds.

00:31:55.460 But we're here to talk about the incident that happened between a Global News reporter and myself.

00:32:01.700 So we're going to do a quick recap here and then you're going to see just how delusional

00:32:05.540 and antagonistic this Global News cameraman is.

00:32:08.260 And the point being here, if you're going to be somebody who works in the public,

00:32:11.940 you're going to be somebody who tries to seek interviews,

00:32:13.700 you're going to be somebody who has to deal with other people in a crowd,

00:32:17.860 there's no justification for you to be as hostile as this mainstream media Global News cameraman.

00:32:23.060 And hopefully, Global News takes this seriously and addresses the matter with this individual.

00:32:27.700 So in the first incident, I had no idea what was going on.

00:32:30.580 I approached as I saw him, this camera guy, and a few of the female protesters having an argument amongst themselves.

00:32:37.700 Here's that footage.

00:32:38.500 Be respectful of me.

00:32:39.860 Yeah, well, I said to you I don't want to be filmed and you stuck that right in my face.

00:32:43.460 And I will do that to anyone who threatens me.

00:32:45.380 I did not threaten you.

00:32:47.300 I said I did not want that in my face and you stuck it in my face.

00:32:50.580 And you said to me and I've got it on camera.

00:32:52.980 Get out. Nobody wants you. You're not welcome here. Fake news.

00:32:57.060 I never said that.

00:32:58.580 What those people did was create a scene and make things more difficult.

00:33:02.580 So, I mean, who's this guy?

00:33:03.860 I don't know.

00:33:04.660 Yeah.

00:33:04.980 Who are you with?

00:33:06.980 Neutral Observer right now.

00:33:08.020 No, you're not Neutral Observer.

00:33:09.540 Who are you with?

00:33:10.420 Do you have a blog or something?

00:33:12.500 Is there a reason you're confronting me?

00:33:14.260 I'm not confronting you.

00:33:15.860 I'm just a Neutral Observer.

00:33:16.980 Well, I would ask you, are you an independent media or a media?

00:33:18.900 What's that?

00:33:19.380 Neutral Observer News.

00:33:20.020 Sorry?

00:33:22.020 Oh, yeah, yeah, that's what I thought.

00:33:23.220 Yeah, yeah.

00:33:23.540 What is he?

00:33:24.660 He's a journalist, independent journalist.

00:33:26.580 Yeah, okay.

00:33:27.380 I got to run over to the bin thing.

00:33:30.580 So anyway, because of him, I'm not going to talk to anybody else.

00:33:33.860 Okay?

00:33:34.580 So he's in the queue.

00:33:35.700 Oh, well, why don't we answer?

00:33:38.340 That's it.

00:33:38.660 No, I'm not.

00:33:39.620 I'm not going to sit with anybody.

00:33:47.300 As you can see, he was hostile out of the gate, and not only to them, but to me as well.

00:33:51.140 Apparently, it's my fault that he refused to interview everybody else.

00:33:54.660 I still don't understand why, but he decided not to do his job because I was filming and doing my job.

00:34:01.220 So that was incident number one.

00:34:02.980 He stormed off all pouty like a little baby, and I proceeded to continue on with working.

00:34:08.820 Later on, there was a veterinarian that was from the Universal Ostrich Farms owners that was allowed to go into the facility,

00:34:16.500 the quarantine off area by the RCMP, as you can see on screen.

00:34:20.180 I was set up there.

00:34:21.380 This individual came along and set up as well.

00:34:23.860 And as you can see, he then decided to confront me and grab my camera.

00:34:28.180 Now, obviously, regretfully, I was not filming prior to him grabbing my camera when he accused me of

00:34:36.580 or said something about me not being a real journalist.

00:34:39.140 I'm not really quite sure what he said, but that was the reason why I started filming,

00:34:43.460 because while we were both there at the police line, he set up, he turned around,

00:34:48.020 said something to me about not being a real journalist or whatever, and you see me in the footage go,

00:34:52.180 okay, time to turn on the camera, and as soon as I do that, you see the cameras rolling,

00:34:56.980 guy grabs the camera immediately.

00:34:59.060 And then what does he do?

00:35:00.020 He lies about it thereafter.

00:35:01.700 Here, check out that interaction. 0.79

00:35:04.580 Hey, how do you like that?

00:35:05.300 Don't touch my camera.

00:35:07.860 So why don't you say who you're working for?

00:35:09.540 Because it's none of your business.

00:35:10.580 Who are you?

00:35:11.060 Do you know who I am?

00:35:12.420 No, I don't.

00:35:15.460 The guy who's doing this is a jerk.

00:35:17.300 He won't say who he is, and everyone else says who he is.

00:35:20.180 There's one person here who won't say who he is, and it's this guy who's got a Banff hat on.

00:35:24.580 So good work, buddy.

00:35:26.020 Everyone else is trying to save the ostriches, and you're doing this for your own benefit. 0.96

00:35:31.140 What's your objective here?

00:35:34.100 To expose you for being a nasty guy.

00:35:37.380 You've grabbed my camera.

00:35:38.980 You've confronted me twice.

00:35:40.500 No idea.

00:35:41.300 Why is it you're so aggressive?

00:35:42.660 I didn't.

00:35:43.540 You're making stuff up now.

00:35:44.900 I'm literally filming it.

00:35:46.260 Is everything you're saying made up?

00:35:48.500 Is it a lie that you grabbed my camera?

00:35:49.940 Is everything you're saying...

00:35:50.900 I'm just asking.

00:35:51.300 Is it a lie that you grabbed my camera?

00:35:52.420 I didn't touch it.

00:35:53.300 Really?

00:35:54.100 Really.

00:35:54.420 So when people see the footage of you grabbing my camera, what do you say to that?

00:35:58.740 He's a jerk.

00:35:59.780 Right?

00:36:00.180 He's a jerk.

00:36:01.700 Is that what it is?

00:36:03.140 What did you say to him?

00:36:04.020 Sorry?

00:36:04.180 I saw him push your camera away.

00:36:05.620 You saw him push my camera away.

00:36:07.140 And was I coming towards him, or was I standing here?

00:36:10.660 You were kind of turning around.

00:36:12.820 When he started talking to me, you mean?

00:36:14.100 No, no.

00:36:14.580 Yeah, he turned around and you went like that.

00:36:16.100 Don't touch my camera.

00:36:16.820 He's a bully.

00:36:18.020 All right.

00:36:18.660 Well, people can look forward to the footage.

00:36:20.580 Good.

00:36:24.100 Hopefully you're more accurate with your other stuff than you are with this.

00:36:28.260 You won't even say who you are.

00:36:29.460 What's my name?

00:36:31.540 So you've made a lot of accusations towards me, and you don't even know who I am.

00:36:34.500 No, but you won't tell me.

00:36:35.700 You won't tell me who you are.

00:36:36.820 So that gives you basis to make accusations?

00:36:37.780 That's the guy that runs up and sticks the camera right in the face.

00:36:40.340 Apparently that's what you did, actually.

00:36:41.860 And that's why I stopped and quietly observed in the background.

00:36:45.060 Contention is not of me, saith the Lord.

00:36:46.820 Wow.

00:36:47.300 It's not of him.

00:36:48.900 Huh?

00:36:49.460 Contention is not of him.

00:36:50.740 Remember that.

00:36:51.220 I'm sorry.

00:36:51.620 I'm sorry.

00:36:51.940 I don't understand.

00:36:52.580 A house that's divided won't stand.

00:36:53.940 This guy's just nasty.

00:36:55.860 Let's just be kind.

00:37:01.060 It's comical as well.

00:37:02.020 He calls me nasty.

00:37:02.900 And then he sets up his camera in front of where I'm filming.

00:37:07.060 Mutual respect.

00:37:08.420 Are you with him?

00:37:09.620 Can I ask what I've done to disrespect you?

00:37:12.100 You don't tell me who you are.

00:37:13.380 Is that it?

00:37:13.940 Yes.

00:37:14.420 Okay.

00:37:15.300 And then I say, how are you doing?

00:37:16.740 What's, you know, who are you working for?

00:37:18.340 If you want to be serious, you should give your name out.

00:37:20.420 And you turn that thing on.

00:37:21.460 You stick it in my face.

00:37:23.940 Why don't you both do the peace and love that we're doing here?

00:37:26.740 Shake it.

00:37:27.300 Well, that's what I told him.

00:37:28.740 People are here for the ostriches, and you want to be a jerk.

00:37:32.820 You can't shake hands with this guy.

00:37:34.180 Try it.

00:37:34.900 I guarantee it.

00:37:36.100 Can you shake hands with me, my friend?

00:37:37.380 Yeah.

00:37:37.860 I'm like...

00:37:38.580 Good to meet you.

00:37:39.540 And then after that, this guy just kept going.

00:37:43.060 He was on a roll.

00:37:44.420 He decided to be confrontational with me again, this time with Drea Humphrey at my side.

00:37:49.940 She had just returned from some coverage that she was doing, and he decided to play nice with

00:37:55.940 her to try and belittle me in this really weird fantasy world this guy was living in.

00:38:01.940 Here, check out some of those engagements.

00:38:04.020 This guy's been on my ass the whole day. 0.99

00:38:05.620 I have literally done nothing.

00:38:06.980 Yes, he has.

00:38:07.540 Okay.

00:38:07.860 That's cool.

00:38:08.740 That's so sweet.

00:38:09.540 That's hard to believe.

00:38:10.580 He's already grabbed my camera.

00:38:12.820 He's already confronted people inside the campground, so...

00:38:15.620 Yeah, that's why I want to...

00:38:16.500 Well, he would have the footage of all that, so...

00:38:18.660 I do, yeah.

00:38:19.220 Did you want to speak to me, or...?

00:38:20.980 Yeah, I'll speak to you about him.

00:38:22.100 Yeah.

00:38:22.580 Okay.

00:38:22.980 Lovely.

00:38:23.540 Sure.

00:38:23.940 Turn it off.

00:38:24.500 Turn it off.

00:38:25.140 Oh, I'll stand here and do what I want to do.

00:38:26.580 Thank you.

00:38:26.900 You have no say over here.

00:38:29.140 Well, then you'll never find out.

00:38:31.460 Well, I think he's been rolling the whole time, right?

00:38:33.940 So, yeah.

00:38:34.580 I'll take a look.

00:38:35.540 But if his interpretation of what goes on here is...

00:38:37.860 Oh, no.

00:38:38.180 There won't be any interpretation.

00:38:39.380 There will be.

00:38:39.860 There will be footage.

00:38:40.500 There will be.

00:38:42.740 This is very...

00:38:44.260 Well, I'm not used to...

00:38:45.220 You see, who I'm working for, I can't put him on doing this, right?

00:38:48.980 Well, they...

00:38:49.700 They...

00:38:50.340 Yeah, I won't say what I want to say.

00:38:52.740 There you go.

00:38:53.220 He stepped away.

00:38:53.940 What is it?

00:38:55.700 He's just been like that the whole time.

00:38:57.540 Like what, though?

00:38:58.500 Well...

00:39:00.500 Yeah, Sid is a really...

00:39:01.940 Yeah, Sid's a really good guy.

00:39:04.980 So, be specific.

00:39:07.140 Like, state of...

00:39:08.020 I'm not going to with her shooting this now.

00:39:10.340 Well, just state of fact.

00:39:11.540 I mean...

00:39:12.180 You know what?

00:39:12.580 I'm not an idiot.

00:39:13.460 So, there you go.

00:39:17.140 I just...

00:39:17.620 I mean, if something was done to you, it should be easy to just say what it was, right?

00:39:22.740 Because you're like, oh, he was like that.

00:39:24.100 But I also didn't see what you mean there.

00:39:25.940 You said you asked his name and he didn't give you his name.

00:39:33.380 Yeah, that's it.

00:39:35.220 So, Rebel News does not identify themselves.

00:39:38.020 I'm Draya Humphrey with Rebel News.

00:39:39.620 You didn't even ask me my name, really.

00:39:41.140 No, I want you.

00:39:42.020 I've met you.

00:39:42.420 I've met you the last time I've done that.

00:39:43.620 Okay, what's your name again?

00:39:46.260 So, you're not identifying yourself now.

00:39:48.100 Well, don't play these dumb games.

00:39:49.860 Come on.

00:39:50.500 I am just confused.

00:39:52.100 I'm just very confused.

00:39:54.100 Like, I don't know what all this hostility is.

00:39:56.980 You've been back out of shape since you came up front.

00:39:59.300 No one's done anything to you since you came up front.

00:40:02.340 Except do their jobs all the same.

00:40:03.860 It's been fine.

00:40:05.140 Say what you want.

00:40:07.060 Take a deep breath.

00:40:09.300 Okay, then share it.

00:40:11.300 Share it with the world.

00:40:12.420 No.

00:40:13.860 Says you won't be allowed.

00:40:14.820 No, I mean, like I said, you know, we're pros, right?

00:40:18.900 We're working journalists.

00:40:20.340 You're a pro.

00:40:21.060 So, then why is the attention on you?

00:40:22.820 If you're the pro, why are we even looking at you right now?

00:40:26.740 Lastly, there were a couple protesters we spoke to as well

00:40:30.020 to get their recollection of the events that transpired

00:40:33.620 with regards to this Global News individual.

00:40:35.540 So, here are a few of those interviews now.

00:40:37.540 So, fill me in.

00:40:38.740 What was your interaction with this Global News guy?

00:40:42.180 I went down into the tent.

00:40:43.540 I went through the side door and I had people come retching me,

00:40:46.900 saying like, you know, Global News is here.

00:40:48.820 Global News is here.

00:40:50.260 And I'm working with the family here kind of thing, right?

00:40:53.540 Just sort of keeping an eye on things.

00:40:54.660 So, I walked over to him and I said to him, I said,

00:40:56.740 does the family know you're here?

00:40:58.580 Right?

00:40:58.820 I said, do you have permission for,

00:41:00.020 actually my exact words were,

00:41:01.460 do you have permission from the family to be here?

00:41:03.460 This is private property is what I said to him.

00:41:06.020 And he just started on to our rant.

00:41:08.420 And I said to him, I said, excuse me.

00:41:10.740 And I said, do you have permission from the family to be here?

00:41:14.340 So then he was just like creating animosity and everything else like this here.

00:41:17.460 And then he went, he had the camera right in people's face.

00:41:19.700 And I said, look, these people, I said, guys, just don't answer anything.

00:41:22.900 I said, just look away and just don't answer anything.

00:41:24.900 And then he started going after Brenda, the vet, right?

00:41:27.860 Because Brenda said like, unless you have permission to be here.

00:41:30.660 So then he started following her and it was like antagonizing.

00:41:33.380 Like I said to Brenda, there's no point.

00:41:34.740 I turned her around and sort of scooted her out. 1.00

00:41:37.060 Because again, we're trying to keep positive vibes here.

00:41:39.380 We don't need this coming in here.

00:41:41.780 So he's just rubbing everybody.

00:41:44.020 No, I saw what I did was I put my hand up in front of his camera because he was

00:41:48.660 following Brenda.

00:41:49.380 It was more of an antagonizing thing.

00:41:51.220 So I put my hand up in front of the camera so that, you know,

00:41:53.860 he couldn't film it or anything or come up with anything negative.

00:41:57.380 And then he turns around and he says, well,

00:41:58.580 I'm going to turn around and tell the family, Katie, that you kicked us,

00:42:01.300 that you kicked me out of here.

00:42:02.740 Nobody kicked him out of here.

00:42:03.860 Nobody told him to leave.

00:42:04.980 I just asked if he had permission.

00:42:06.580 That's unacceptable.

00:42:09.220 Well, I had had one very brief interaction with this man.

00:42:14.340 I was going to say gentleman.

00:42:16.580 Just right over here, he had said, if people in the kitchen could just go

00:42:20.900 about their business and ignore me, I'd appreciate it.

00:42:23.620 So I went to all the ladies in the kitchen. 1.00

00:42:25.380 I said, please just ignore this man with the camera.

00:42:27.860 I think he just wants candid shots.

00:42:29.460 And then I went over to the fire pit.

00:42:31.460 And then what happened to that engagement?

00:42:37.060 How did that begin?

00:42:38.100 Well, so I was just over at the fire pit and a couple of the ladies from the kitchen 1.00

00:42:44.100 came charging over and said, this guy's being really disrespectful.

00:42:47.860 We're asking him not to film us.

00:42:49.540 He won't get out of our faces.

00:42:51.460 And so I just went, okay, I'll come and see what's going on.

00:42:55.060 I got to about the middle of the yard here.

00:42:58.580 And this guy came up and stuck his camera in my face.

00:43:01.700 And I said, please don't stick your camera in my face.

00:43:04.820 And he stuck it.

00:43:06.100 So I grabbed his camera and I pushed it down.

00:43:09.220 And I said, please don't put your camera in my face.

00:43:11.700 I might smash it.

00:43:12.820 As a final engagement I had with that individual,

00:43:15.300 I want to point to a moment where there was a press conference happening.

00:43:18.740 The ostrich farm owners and the veterinarian were giving a little press release

00:43:23.220 to some of the media that was there.

00:43:24.260 Apparently this global news individual was told to stay a little further away,

00:43:28.980 stay aside from this engagement because it is private property.

00:43:32.740 So they have every right to tell him, you know, stand far back.

00:43:35.940 So he did that temporarily.

00:43:37.140 And then partway, halfway through their presentation

00:43:40.260 on the events that happened with the veterinarian,

00:43:43.140 you might see that he tried to push his way in between me and another fellow,

00:43:47.540 a very nice fellow, actually, that I quite like.

00:43:49.860 But he tried to shove his way in between us. 0.58

00:43:52.500 And I wasn't sure what was happening.

00:43:53.620 I didn't even know it was him at first.

00:43:55.060 I just thought, okay, there's like, what's going on here?

00:43:57.220 I look and I see, oh, what do you know?

00:43:59.300 Global news cameraman is trying to elbow his way between us

00:44:02.660 so that he can get his spot on the press conference.

00:44:05.540 How pathetic, how pathetic do you have to be, man?

00:44:08.740 And then after I take a step back so that I can film from a different angle,

00:44:12.420 get some B-roll shots, you know, make it aesthetically pleasing for the audience.

00:44:16.020 And he scoots in to take my spot.

00:44:20.020 What is going on with this guy?

00:44:23.140 All right.

00:44:23.860 So you've seen everything that happened.

00:44:26.420 These are the engagements that this individual presented.

00:44:29.460 I don't know who he is, by the way, despite his accusation.

00:44:35.700 I know that he works for Global News.

00:44:37.220 That's what everybody believed about him.

00:44:38.580 That's how he introduced himself when he was asking questions.

00:44:41.220 I haven't dug deep into finding his first and last name because I'm not here

00:44:45.300 to cause a tsunami of hate or anything like that against him.

00:44:49.380 I just want Global News to be accountable for their cameraman.

00:44:53.300 When they're out in the field, they should not be acting like violent, belligerent children.

00:44:58.340 It's a very simple fact.

00:44:59.700 If you want to be a news agency, you should at least have some integrity.

00:45:02.900 For Rebel News, I'm Sidney Fazzard.

00:45:07.060 Now, look, I'm not hurt by the incident.

00:45:09.540 I'm not going to cry about it.

00:45:10.660 He grabbed my camera.

00:45:11.700 He shouldn't have done that.

00:45:13.220 So be it.

00:45:13.860 But we have journalists in the field every day that are quite literally getting assaulted

00:45:17.060 by Antifa, by random people sometimes.

00:45:20.420 Very aggressive people, very violent people.

00:45:22.260 Much like you see with Antifa in Quebec with our co-worker, Alexa Lavois.

00:45:25.780 You just saw that recently.

00:45:27.620 They're getting swarmed by violent individuals.

00:45:30.180 We are constantly under attack, be it from crazed lefties or mainstream media journalists.

00:45:37.460 So if you want to help our work, you can go to journalistdefensefund.com.

00:45:40.900 We are only here because of you, because of the crowdfunding initiatives we set out,

00:45:45.220 where the public supports us.

00:45:46.820 You are the reason that we are here reporting.

00:45:49.300 So if you want to help us and you want to keep us safe out there,

00:45:51.940 especially when we're dealing with Antifa and stuff like that,

00:45:54.500 go to journalistdefensefund.com.

00:46:07.540 What a ridiculous scene.

00:46:15.540 A person appears to have a string in their hand of some sort.

00:46:18.820 A twine?

00:46:19.460 I don't think it's enough to lasso the bird.

00:46:25.540 They may be giving up.

00:46:36.660 Those sunglasses look very sealed up.

00:46:41.380 There's another one way down at the far end here.

00:46:49.460 You want to use this hole?

00:47:08.420 I'm just going to get you out of here.

00:47:09.460 Yeah.

00:47:11.700 Anything I should know about?

00:47:12.740 Nope.

00:47:14.420 Oh, I might have a thing.

00:47:16.180 We do not condone and nobody should ever have to go through.

00:47:19.780 So our neighbour, this person was out in broad daylight doing something.

00:47:24.020 It was filmed.

00:47:24.580 But our supporters, it is really important to really frame this as our supporters

00:47:29.540 were screaming at this individual to come to the street.

00:47:32.900 Come to the street and come to the RCMP.

00:47:35.380 We were having negotiations at the front.

00:47:37.700 And the negotiations were just talking about what to expect.

00:47:41.060 The family, is there search warrants?

00:47:42.820 What is going on?

00:47:44.180 We put everything on hold.

00:47:46.340 And we brought in the RCMP immediately to take care of the situation,

00:47:49.620 to make sure that our neighbour's welfare was taken care of utmost, first most.

00:47:55.060 And that's what our priority was.

00:47:56.900 Our mission has stayed the same since day one, is that we're here to protect life.

00:48:00.340 Drea Humphrey here with Rebel News back at 301 Langjail Road.

00:48:08.420 Many of you know that address.

00:48:10.180 It's the address of Universal Ostrich Farms, whose farmers are currently in a standoff

00:48:15.860 with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, who's embedded on their property, as well as the RCMP.

00:48:22.580 The CFIA wants to go ahead with a call order to call nearly 400 healthy ostriches who had a sickness.

00:48:33.940 The avian flu, according to the agency, go through the herd back in December.

00:48:40.740 The farmers have continued to try to fight for the right for the birds to live,

00:48:46.100 saying that they are healthy and asymptomatic.

00:48:49.540 And right now we just await the Supreme Court to decide whether or not they're going to be able

00:48:56.580 to continue fighting for such in the Supreme Court.

00:49:01.060 But as we wait, I want to bring you a story within a story.

00:49:05.140 Those of you who have been watching my coverage at SaveTheOstriches.com over several months know that

00:49:11.780 there is never a dull day on this farm.

00:49:14.500 And when the entourage of cops and CFIA officials descended on the property

00:49:20.580 and the farmers were devastated in their pens and the supporters were out here on this very road

00:49:28.100 where they were descending, something else occurred at the exact same time.

00:49:35.060 Allegedly, the farmer's neighbours who lives here, Lois Wood, was assaulted.

00:49:42.340 At the time, I was running around trying to catch negotiations with the officers,

00:49:47.140 trying to catch what the heck the screaming was about, trying to find out who done it

00:49:52.660 and have footage of that that you have never seen before.

00:49:57.620 I'm also going to talk to Katie about what we now know is Lois's claims that it was a devastating attack,

00:50:06.580 something horrific for an elderly woman, let alone anybody, to face.

00:50:12.180 And we now believe it was one of the people, many people, who have come here over several months

00:50:18.820 to support the farm's cause.

00:50:21.300 It's all quite shocking.

00:50:23.700 And here is David Eby actually speaking to the issue.

00:50:28.740 On the ostrich farm alleged assault, obviously, this is incredibly alarming.

00:50:35.620 I just hope that everybody can help work to take the temperature down here.

00:50:40.740 And I hope this victim is okay, as okay as possible in the circumstances.

00:50:49.300 Nobody wants to see violence attacks like this.

00:50:53.060 And it doesn't serve any interest anywhere, regardless of where you are on the issue.

00:50:58.020 And so I send my best wishes to her and encourage everybody to maybe take a step back and a breath

00:51:06.580 and focus on what really matters here.

00:51:08.740 We are going to bleep the name of some of the people who made guesses on who they thought

00:51:13.940 perhaps went ahead and did this because those guesses were wrong.

00:51:18.180 And of course, it's not fair to list those people.

00:51:21.620 But here is some of that footage from that day that was chaotic.

00:51:25.060 And then we'll hear from Katie.

00:51:27.140 Thank you, Father.

00:51:29.060 Thank you, Father.

00:51:33.220 I've been a win.

00:51:36.020 Solidarity forever, solidarity forever, solidarity forever.

00:51:48.020 For the ostriches make us strong. 0.99

00:51:52.020 Good morning, Andrea.

00:51:53.220 Good morning.

00:51:54.260 Good morning, Andrea.

00:51:55.380 Good morning, Sergeant.

00:52:01.300 Solidarity forever, solidarity forever.

00:52:03.300 Solidarity forever, solidarity forever.

00:52:08.340 For the world, solidarity forever.

00:52:10.020 So you can see here, we have some vehicles here

00:52:13.300 at the edge of the private property.

00:52:15.780 The sign says, Who is your silent professionalism saving?

00:52:20.340 I'm assuming that is a message for the RCMP who are supposed to serve and protect.

00:52:28.200 I don't think killing healthy animals is part of that.

00:52:34.080 There's a fire here going.

00:52:36.740 Some of the supporters are out here standing behind the fire.

00:52:41.360 We've got another sign here.

00:52:42.960 Who, same message there, who is your silent professionalism saving?

00:52:48.780 All right, it looks like the RCMP have gone through a cable that was up with the caution as well.

00:52:56.380 They're walking on foot.

00:52:57.380 They don't have their vehicles.

00:52:59.540 They're walking with the son of Karen Espersen, co-owner of the farm.

00:53:05.080 I'm going to show you now.

00:53:06.220 There's a lady. 1.00

00:53:06.800 There's somebody screaming.

00:53:07.560 The neighbor was screaming right next to where we were standing back there. 0.99

00:53:10.900 They got this.

00:53:11.260 The place is at the end of the driveway if you get up.

00:53:14.400 There's a man running out of her house with a jerry cab.

00:53:16.700 What?

00:53:17.140 Out of her house.

00:53:19.400 Wearing all black.

00:53:20.720 Out of her mask.

00:53:21.680 So this guy's not, he's wearing a mask.

00:53:24.640 I need to see fire.

00:53:25.800 Who is this?

00:53:26.260 He walks back to your house.

00:53:29.120 What is that?

00:53:30.120 Just five years ago.

00:53:32.220 Oh my gosh.

00:53:33.520 Did you guys move the jerry cab?

00:53:35.060 No, he went back to the jerry cab and runs around the property.

00:53:39.160 We don't see him.

00:53:39.840 He didn't come here.

00:53:41.240 He didn't come here.

00:53:41.940 He just walks around that house.

00:53:43.160 This is on Universal Austin Farm property?

00:53:47.740 This is the neighbor's property.

00:53:48.980 Okay.

00:53:49.520 And where we're standing just behind the house.

00:53:50.900 So he came out with a jerry can near the property and then a woman came out, yelled at him.

00:53:57.820 Yeah.

00:53:57.960 And he took the jerry can away, correct?

00:54:00.020 Yeah.

00:54:00.120 Wow.

00:54:00.420 She pushed him out or was screaming at him. 1.00

00:54:02.020 He ran away, threw the jerry can, then went back towards the house.

00:54:04.540 She's pushing him or yelling at him and then she start walks back towards his jerry can and walks around the property with a mask on. 0.61

00:54:14.120 I don't know.

00:54:14.500 We haven't seen this guy before.

00:54:15.420 We're all in.

00:54:15.800 You can see right now, of course, they're all taking a look towards the farm to see what is to come as they try to go through.

00:54:31.860 And you can see a lot of the supporters, or I don't even know who, are parked towards the animals.

00:54:40.100 And now the RCMP, because of this incident, have gotten quite the view.

00:54:45.280 They got to walk by.

00:55:01.560 The RCMP are investigating the neighbor's property now after the arrest.

00:55:07.320 And they've got police dogs, canines, on the case.

00:55:21.040 So I'm just making my way up there.

00:55:23.680 You can see a van has just moved in front.

00:55:29.180 There is also a tree on the ground.

00:55:33.380 Must have been a windy night.

00:55:35.700 Let's take a look.

00:55:37.320 All right.

00:55:40.880 So you've got a tree down here as well.

00:55:47.580 All right.

00:55:51.040 So you've got a branch here.

00:55:56.160 And then down there, I'll zoom in.

00:55:59.440 It looks like there is also another.

00:56:08.820 All right.

00:56:09.400 I made my way here to the second mysterious tree that has fallen on the road here.

00:56:15.040 This is Lucas.

00:56:16.220 Now, what's going through your mind as you can see them right there?

00:56:19.680 Well, God has a plan, and it is not ending with the ostriches dying.

00:56:28.740 As you know, if you've been following the story, the submissions will be in, hopefully today, at the Supreme Court.

00:56:35.440 The court opens at nine, which is why they're trying to rush in here, and once those documents go in, then it's back to another fight.

00:56:46.300 Yeah, we've seen miracle after miracle here.

00:56:49.780 I am not losing hope.

00:56:51.460 They are clearing this area, pulling it aside, extending an olive branch to the liaison officers.

00:57:05.660 For sure, yeah.

00:57:27.120 We do not want that on our message.

00:57:31.580 we we we made sure or we thought we made sure that everything was peaceful here so if we can

00:57:39.740 deal with this that would be amazing for us and you guys obviously yeah so

00:57:44.620 um yeah no uh this this isn't our message can you grab that for me and everyone else here

00:57:56.020 is peaceful so obviously we got the one bad in the bunch so hopefully we can deal with this and

00:58:07.960 move forward now is this about the guy with the jerry can in the mask yeah we we don't quite know

00:58:16.060 all the details quite yet but we have assumptions on who it is and like i said before it's not our

00:58:25.480 message at all we're not here for this we do not stand for this we do not condone this as a family

00:58:30.980 this isn't what we wanted have the rcmp given you any update about who's been shooting the birds

00:58:37.780 no do you think it's connected at all i mean you could speculate but i can't say for sure

00:58:49.120 all right katie you live right here your neighbor lives right here there's a whole lot going on i

00:58:54.620 was actually here the day the incident took place and i didn't know what was going on i was up there

00:58:59.720 with the cops you guys had trees going on here screaming back here i didn't know what was going

00:59:05.100 on because we were in the pens and i heard screaming and i actually asked one of our supporters to go and

00:59:10.220 find out what was happening because it sounded like panic and it sounded like fear and i didn't know

00:59:15.680 if it was i didn't know if there was the police i didn't know if it was somebody who was trying to

00:59:20.980 help but got detained we didn't know

00:59:22.960 i'm just going to get you out of here yeah 0.51

00:59:34.420 i'm just going to get you out of here how you do it works and we go

01:00:04.400 so there was a man he was in black he had a gasoline can uh again at the time i didn't know

01:00:22.440 where it was coming from we've since learned though uh that there has been an arrest and it appears to

01:00:30.380 have been someone who frequented the supporter side of things so what can you tell us about that

01:00:35.320 well number one we are heartbroken about the incident because it totally took away from any

01:00:39.940 of the messaging that we've portrayed here for 10 months um we don't condone violence we've been

01:00:44.940 making that very clear no aggression no hatred no violence no threats threats have even become a

01:00:51.280 really big one when this happened we were in the pens with the ostriches and that day i will still

01:00:57.360 stand to say that was probably will be the day that i will have to recover ptsd from because

01:01:02.340 we were standing in the pens and we didn't know what to expect we had a lot of enforcement coming

01:01:07.520 more enforcement i've ever seen in my life to even other any other drug bust or anything

01:01:12.240 and here we are farmers not criminals so we're standing in the pens and i'm watching not 10

01:01:17.220 not 20 not 30 police cars but 40 plus police cars coming down a highway while the sun was just

01:01:23.760 lighting up the morning sky and i was looking at our ostriches going we didn't know if that was

01:01:29.120 going to be the last time we were touching them feeding them or what that looked like

01:01:32.560 um and then we uh heard about the incident i didn't even know about what had happened until we were

01:01:41.280 very this is a few hours later and we heard that it was somebody here that frequented uh supporting our

01:01:47.360 cause that was evidently in that moment we were everybody was didn't know how to react in that

01:01:54.560 moment and i'm not justifying this but it was a lot of emotion coming out in a lot of individuals that

01:02:00.960 this person acted in a way that doesn't we do not condone and nobody should ever have to go through so

01:02:08.080 our neighbor uh this person was out in broad daylight doing something it was filmed but our supporters it is

01:02:14.160 really important to really frame this as our supporters were screaming at this individual to

01:02:19.600 come to the street come to the street and come to the rcmp we were having negotiations at the front

01:02:25.840 and the negotiations were just talking about what to expect the family is there search warrants what is

01:02:31.280 going on we put everything on hold and we brought in the rcmp immediately to take care of the situation to

01:02:37.840 make sure that our neighbor's welfare was taken care of utmost first most and that's what

01:02:43.920 our priority was our mission has stayed the same since day one is that we're here to protect life

01:02:48.720 i've been here multiple times and i was actually surprised when i saw who the individual was his

01:02:54.480 name is tim and he said it was me and and i was like really was it really him because he seemed so

01:03:00.320 helpful and of course it's horrific what lois is saying is happening to her she's saying she was assaulted

01:03:07.840 before she came out and did the statement which i've linked in the article below i did ask the rcmp

01:03:13.600 for a follow-up on what had happened with the the individual who allegedly assaulted her we have

01:03:19.440 some drones overhead right now now i'm not going to be able to get a statement from the neighbor but

01:03:24.320 this is doug he's got some context because you've been here um you know really helping out what do you

01:03:29.760 think is going on well we've been here for about nine ten months battling this thing and i've and i was

01:03:36.560 just here to you know help the family do whatever i can but we've got a team of locals that's probably 20

01:03:42.720 25 of them deep from 55 to 70 and it's in and they call themselves the hate group and it's oh they

01:03:50.400 call themselves that yeah yeah and and and they're they're on a they're they're online with it and

01:03:56.400 everything you can see what's going on with these guys so we've had problems all the time we've had

01:04:01.600 two ostriches killed right um in the middle of the night i'm not saying it was them and so i started

01:04:07.920 running security at night just to just to put the family at ease and everything and there was all

01:04:13.360 kinds of people i had to chase away and we've had problems with these constant with these people now

01:04:18.800 there's supposedly a fire that happened next door here well he came out with a jerry can there was

01:04:24.240 somebody running through the bush with a jerry can and the guy our guy that's been hauled away it

01:04:29.280 doesn't even look like him and he took off through the bush going the other direction so

01:04:34.240 i don't know what it is and it's always there's always an issue and all right a little bit more

01:04:40.720 details so a man named tim who was here apparently supporting the farm yeah one of our biggest

01:04:48.480 supporters and honestly he's been nothing but helpful for months yeah and um i had a talk with him today

01:04:58.000 and numerous times before that about how it's it's stronger that he is at the front of the line

01:05:04.400 than behind bars um and i've had that with other people too because that's the truth is if we stand

01:05:12.560 together and put up a front then we're stronger together um i i don't necessarily believe it was

01:05:20.080 tim but i think he's taking the rap for it yeah so apparently tim and i think i know who you're talking

01:05:25.040 about he's been doing a lot of help just you know fixing things and things like that he has allegedly

01:05:30.080 i wasn't there said it was him and that's who they arrested right yeah yeah so uh he apparently i i don't

01:05:39.200 quite know said that it was him but when he was detained he said i didn't do anything wrong so that

01:05:45.920 really throws a red flag for me with tim with me standing there too um if he did something wrong i

01:05:54.640 i really don't believe that he he would say that so and the canines have been sort of tracking ascent

01:06:02.640 kind of coming from towards the opposite side which is interesting too but yeah i guess soon we'll know

01:06:09.360 yeah and yeah they couldn't figure out where it led to but they were coming in the direction from

01:06:17.440 um our neighbor's property in a diagonal view and they they couldn't pick up the scent from there so

01:06:26.720 i just i don't see it as tim doing that because he's been on a quad too yeah just helping everyone

01:06:33.440 yeah well it's hard to say i mean you don't really have much control and it's been very peaceful

01:06:38.880 every time i've come out so we'll see what comes from this thanks now i saw you um you know offering

01:06:49.200 hey there's police over here if you need help tell us a little bit about what you saw there was a lady 1.00

01:06:53.760 just screaming on control the beat but we didn't see anybody at first and then she uh came out of the 0.69

01:06:59.280 house with it looked like she came out of the house with somebody with a gas can and then she started 0.99

01:07:05.600 screaming again and then she started the person was running around but it looked as though they knew

01:07:11.680 each other so it's kind of confusing of exactly what's going on i see there's cops there i've heard

01:07:17.680 that uh i don't i don't really know what's going on it really seemed staged to me well really seemed as

01:07:24.800 though this was uh almost like planned you know do you think it's working in favor or against the birds

01:07:33.920 being saved we've seen last minute miracles and i do know i've been here before and it was not staged

01:07:41.920 where a neighbor and i don't know which neighbor so i'm not pointing fingers but a neighbor almost

01:07:47.040 you know tried to intentionally scare protesters that were here by driving uh quite aggressively

01:07:53.760 towards them so i don't know if that's connected we're not criminals we're farmers and we're standing

01:07:59.120 it for all farmers across canada to give you hope that this is a broken policy that is affecting all

01:08:04.640 of us educate you that when you let them on your property you lose all property rights you lose the

01:08:09.680 rights to your animals and you lose the rights to prove that your animals are healthy um we're in a

01:08:16.000 this has uh gotten so big that none of us could have ever expected how big this was going to get

01:08:22.800 rebel you guys have been done a really amazing job at being here boots on the ground covering the most

01:08:28.800 accurate information and also getting the most um the truthful uh portion of this and accurate

01:08:36.720 representation of what we're fighting for we are not aggressive we are not uh we do not stand for

01:08:43.200 violence and anybody here who's even incited or looked like they were too far one way we've asked to

01:08:49.440 leave so we would never jeopardize our cause in the fight if we knew that we had somebody here that was

01:08:55.200 going to going to do that meanwhile the american ostrich association is pushing for testing and

01:09:02.560 quarantine instead of panic they're calling for policy grounded in biology not blind obedience but

01:09:09.600 in canada it seems the government's motto is when in doubt kill everything

01:09:17.040 there's a growing body of science that canada's overreaching health bureaucrats refuse to acknowledge

01:09:22.880 and it's coming from south of the border veterinary experts in the united states including the american

01:09:28.560 ostrich association have made it clear ratite so birds like ostriches can contract the avian flu

01:09:35.200 but they don't spread it they don't migrate they don't fly and when infected they recover with what

01:09:40.560 the association calls minimal zoonotic risk in plain english they're not a danger to other birds

01:09:48.000 animals or even humans i'm sheila gunrig reporting from universal ostrich farm a small family-run

01:09:54.080 operation here in the kootenays of british columbia fighting a court ordered depopulation of their farm

01:10:00.160 after exposure to avian flu months ago to see and support our journalism from on the ground here visit

01:10:06.000 save the ostriches.com now what i just explained to you is not internet folklore that's from an official

01:10:12.480 letter sent to u.s health and human services secretary robert f kennedy urging washington

01:10:18.160 to finally modernize bird flu policy in that letter the association points out that the ostriches

01:10:24.400 biology and immune response are much more like cattle than poultry and that the old cull and indemnity

01:10:31.600 model where governments line up trucks and kill everything with feathers and then compensate the farmers

01:10:37.760 makes no sense for these long-lived animals the association reminded secretary kennedy that when

01:10:43.600 dairy cattle in the u.s tested positive for avian flu the government didn't torch the herds it used

01:10:50.080 testing and quarantine the americans are asking for the same rational approach for ostriches including

01:10:57.520 these canadian ones and here's what they warned the mandatory calls are an existential threat to small

01:11:04.000 ostrich farms because when you wipe out birds that take decades to breed because they can live for 40

01:11:10.880 years you're not just killing livestock you're erasing genetics livelihoods and research ostriches

01:11:16.080 require a different approach than poultry flocks which have sometimes an eight-week lifespan now i reached

01:11:22.240 out directly to the american ostrich association for their view on what's happening right here in edgewood

01:11:27.280 british columbia i heard back from the president michael layman he told me their association

01:11:33.440 confirmed they're aware of this case and that pressure has been building in the us to raise it

01:11:38.800 with congress and the department of agriculture he reiterated the organization's position ostriches and

01:11:44.880 other ratites are highly resistant to viral transmission and deserves species specific treatment

01:11:51.120 not extermination that science matters because what's unfolding behind me could decide the future of

01:11:57.440 the ostrich industry and animal health policy on both sides of the border you see behind me

01:12:03.360 are 400 healthy ostriches alert active and apparently virus free for 260 days they were exposed to avian

01:12:11.760 flu months ago they survived they have never spread it but instead of learning from that ottawa health

01:12:19.120 bureaucrats want these birds dead the canadian food inspection agency has ordered their destruction

01:12:25.120 they've built kill pens nearby and they're awaiting the courts to clear the way the farm's owners are clinging to

01:12:32.160 hope waiting to see if the supreme court of canada will agree to hear their appeal if that leave isn't

01:12:38.000 granted the government could move in and it's not just a farm these birds of course are research animals

01:12:43.600 they're not for food they're used in cutting edge studies on immune response and antibody production

01:12:49.440 related to covet 19 and other infectious diseases if they're killed that research dies with them too now

01:12:56.640 here's the irony that should make every so-called science-based policy maker in ottawa blush around

01:13:03.200 the world scientists are genetically modifying chickens to make them more like ostriches and the uk

01:13:09.920 researchers engineered chickens with synthetic decoy rna that tricks the flu virus into binding

01:13:16.960 to fake genetic material so the virus can't reproduce the result those chickens might get infected but they can't

01:13:23.520 spread the virus they're literally building lab-made birds that can do what these ostriches already do

01:13:29.440 naturally contract avian flu and then stop it dead in its tracks and while scientists in london are

01:13:35.040 tinkering in laboratories to make flu resistant poultry the cfia here in canada is marching into

01:13:40.720 this farm to destroy 400 naturally flu resistant ostriches real world proof of the same phenomenon studies

01:13:48.240 have shown that ostriches produce cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies immune proteins capable of

01:13:54.720 recognizing multiple flu strains including pandemic h1n1 ostriches have been used in antiviral research

01:14:00.880 precisely because their immune systems are that adaptable generating broad-spectrum protection

01:14:06.240 that even bio-engineered chickens can't mimic so when the americans say ostriches deserve their own

01:14:12.720 response plan they're right nature already solved a problem that scientists are trying to fix in the

01:14:18.800 lab the only thing that hasn't evolved is the bureaucracy if these birds are slaughtered we won't

01:14:26.000 just lose 400 animals we'll lose decades of data unique genetics and living evidence that mass calls are not

01:14:34.960 the only answer to avian disease meanwhile the american ostrich association is pushing for testing

01:14:41.280 and quarantine instead of panic they're calling for policy grounded in biology not blind obedience but

01:14:48.560 in canada it seems the government's motto is when in doubt kill everything now you can follow this

01:14:55.120 developing story and support our independent reporting right here in edgewood at save the ostriches.com

01:15:02.080 because this isn't about disease control anymore it's about control period for rebel news i'm sheila gun reid

01:15:11.760 if ottawa can silence farmers destroy science and then call it public health

01:15:16.000 then it's not just the ostriches under threat it's every one of us who dares to question

01:15:20.640 their authority visit save the ostriches.com to learn more well that's our show for today until next

01:15:28.160 week on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night

01:15:32.320 and keep fighting for freedom

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Rebel News Podcast - October 17, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Mainstream media buries the truth of B.C. ostrich story

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