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A pair of farmers go up against bird flu hysteria and government overreach. MAHA Man to the rescue? Hundreds of healthy ostriches owned by a small family farm in Canada are marked for death — unless U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can win them a stay of execution. Karen Espersen and Dave Bilinski's Universal Ostrich Farms in the Kootenay region of British Columbia has become an international touchstone for hysteria over avian flu, government overreach, and the property rights of farmers. Cull me, maybe On Dec. 19, 2024, the couple noticed that one of their...

OTTAWA – GoFundMe froze more than $10 million raised by a Canadian trucker convoy, prompting outrage from conservatives and calls for an investigation from Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) who declared the truckers “heros.” But the group has already raised another $2 million from GiveSendGo in the last 36 hours with tens of thousands of dollars pouring in every minute. The convoy is also facing a lawsuit from the city of Ottawa over disruption of services and noise even though the convoy arrived in town while Ottawa was in the grips of a provincial lockdown with...