TRAILER | Culling The Cure: The Aftermath of Canada's Ostrich Slaughter

Tickets are available now for Rebel News' full investigative documentary examining why the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, with RCMP support, spent millions of taxpayer dollars to turn Universal Ostrich Farms into a killing field.

They called it “biosecurity” and “stamping out,” but we showed you the truth: Hundreds of healthy, untested ostriches, senselessly gunned down in the dark on a peaceful family farm.

Now, Rebel News is ready to unveil Culling The Cure: The Aftermath of Canada’s Ostrich Slaughter, a full investigative documentary examining why the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, with RCMP support, spent millions of taxpayer dollars to turn Universal Ostrich Farms into a killing field.

This wasn’t just about one farm, and it wasn’t just about disease control. It’s about science, policy, and power.

The farmers argued their healthy birds were part of ongoing antibody research that could have helped protect future flocks from avian flu culls. The state said they had no value worthy of exemption.

We’ve travelled from the Rocky Mountains to the Arizona desert, from New York City to the halls of Parliament in Ottawa, following the evidence to determine who is right.

This story is bigger than ostriches.

It raises serious questions about how governments use “animal health” policies, how dissent is handled when citizens push back, and whether scientific opportunity was sacrificed in the name of bureaucratic control.

Rebel News was there from the beginning — reporting from inside the farm, documenting the cull, covering the legal battles, questioning officials, and securing footage the public was never meant to see.

Culling The Cure premieres in Kelowna, B.C. on Friday, September 18, 2026. Get your tickets and see additional screening dates across Canada at CullingtheCure.com.

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The documentary is finished. After months of on-the-ground reporting in Edgewood, B.C., Rebel News has completed Culling the Cure — our full-length documentary investigating the government's slaughter of hundreds of healthy ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farm.

We invested in the travel, reporting and professional filmmaking necessary to tell this story properly. Now we're asking for your help to recoup some of those costs and get the finished film in front of as many people as possible.

Your donation will help support our cross-Canada screening tour, promotion and marketing of the documentary — and help make ambitious independent journalism like this possible.

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Drea Humphrey

B.C. Bureau Chief

Based in British Columbia, Drea Humphrey reports on Western Canada for Rebel News. Drea’s reporting is not afraid to challenge political correctness, or ask the tough questions that mainstream media tends to avoid.

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