Tokyo, Feb 20: Japan has halted imports of poultry from Canada today after an outbreak of bird flu in that country, the farm ministry said in a statement. The ban will be imposed on live birds as well as meat and meat products, the statement said. Bird flu was discovered on a chicken farm in British Columbia yesterday. The Canadian food inspection agency was still conducting laboratory tests but officials said it had been identified as the H7 strain of avian influenza, the same type of strain found recently in Delaware in the United States. Bureau Report