Unpublished Newswire
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency plans to move ahead with a plan to cull ostriches in British Columbia, citing the birds have a genetic composition of avian influenza associated with a human infection in Ohio.The CFIA said in a statement released late Friday evening its National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease identified the current infection in the ostriches with a “novel reassortment” not otherwise seen in Canada.
May 30, 2025 - 23:01 | Kristy Kirkup | The Globe and Mail
Ernie Clement and Addison Barger homered and the Toronto Blue Jays reached a double-digit run total for a second straight game in an 11-7 victory over the Athletics on Friday at Rogers Centre.
May 30, 2025 - 22:12 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says that Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, B.C. is facing a $20,000 fine over failure to quarantine and cull its birds.
May 30, 2025 - 22:06 | | CBC News - Canada
Wildfires across Western Canada have forced thousands of people from their homes, as dry, warm and windy temperatures intensified new flares Friday, causing Manitoba to ask for international help. Manitoba and Saskatchewan are under provincewide states of emergency for the next month, while evacuations have also been ordered in large parts of Alberta and British Columbia.
May 30, 2025 - 21:36 | Temur Durrani, Matthew Konhauser, Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says an investigation is underway to find the person who illegally shot and killed a female black bear near Williams Lake, B.C., leaving behind five cubs.
May 30, 2025 - 21:25 | | CBC News - Canada
Rasmus Astrup has a promise about Ookwemin Minising, the island that will be Toronto’s next waterfront neighbourhood. It will be weird. “This island is a place like nowhere else,” the Danish landscape architect said this week. “The design has to be special; it has to be a little quirky.”Quirkiness isn’t Toronto’s default setting, but Mr. Astrup and his practice SLA will get to bring some. They’ve been hired on a team to rework Ookwemin (formerly Villiers Island), the 40-hectare new district on Toronto’s port lands framed by the Don River. This year they’ll deliver a design for the...
May 30, 2025 - 21:16 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
