Canada Culls Hundreds of Ostriches as a Court and a Kennedy Fail to Save Them

The birds, exposed to the avian flu, were killed after Canada’s Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal and a rescue effort ...

Shock, devastation as residents grapple with the massive loss of St. Mary’s fish plant that burnt to the ground

The seafood processing plant caught fire Tuesday night amid a heavy storm, and firefighting efforts were futile due to the ...
The Financial Express

Canada introduces personalized processing times for Canadian PR and citizenship applicants

The IRCC update allows Permanent Residence and citizenship applicants to view personalized processing times on entering their submission dates. (Bloomberg) Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada ...
Yahoo

Ostrich Struts Around the Wildlife Safari Like the Total Baddie He Is

Woahhhh, who’s that really cool guy? He’s totally feeling the music — look at him groove! People on the internet couldn’t stop staring at this hip fella over at the Eudora Wildlife Safari in Aiken, ...
The Hill

The ostrich approach to data won’t solve US hunger

Business titan and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg popularized the phrase: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” That phrase applies to every major institution in American ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Origins of the ‘Ostrich Effect’

In a world of information overload, it can feel soothing to stick your head in the sand. Don’t want to hear what the doctor might say? It’s easy not to make a follow-up appointment. Did a favorite ...
The New York Times

Worried, Frazzled, Indifferent: Processing the Shutdown in a Divided America

As the government shutdown entered its first full week, emotions across the country ranged from uneasy to unconcerned. A prayer among leaders of Hemingway Memorial A.M.E. Church in District Heights, ...
Orlando Sentinel

25-year-old ostrich ‘Big O’ to be adopted by Eustis animal rescue facility

After nearly 25 years spent in an enclosure at a residence in Lake County, Big O — a 7-foot-tall Somali Ostrich — is in the process of being adopted by the Crazy Critters animal rescue facility in ...
Reuters

China sets safety standards for cross-border processing of personal information

BEIJING, Sept 29 (Reuters) - China's market regulator on Monday published the country's first national safety standards for cross-border processing of personal information. The regulation, which takes ...
Medical Xpress

Origins of the 'Ostrich Effect': Researchers pinpoint the age we start avoiding information—even when it's helpful

In a world of information overload, it can feel soothing to stick your head in the sand. Don't want to hear what the doctor might say? It's easy not to make a follow-up appointment. Did a favorite ...
Reuters

Canada pauses cull of ostrich flock that had cases of avian flu amid US push to save them

Canada's Supreme Court grants temporary stay of ostrich culling U.S. officials support farm's fight against culling order Food inspection agency emphasizes importance of disease control policy TORONTO ...