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Five paws up for Stephen Best dog rescue film “Saving Dinah”

August 26, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Saving Dinah Directed by Stephen Best Starring Amanda Langille, Craig Martin, and Paul James Saunders. 90 minutes.  $1.99 from Amazon Prime Video (rental) or $4.99 to purchase. Produced by the Animal Alliance of Canada. Reviewed by Merritt & Beth Clifton. Bill Sikes,  arch-villain of the 1838 Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist,  might justly be called one of […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Canada, Culture & Animals, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Science, The Americas, Uncategorized, USA Tagged With: Amanda Langille, Barbara Kyle, Barry Kent MacKay, Bill Sykes, Cruella DeVil, Eric Christiani, Heather Sessions, John Lunman, Liz White

Animal deaths at Primarily Primates were not “acts of God”

February 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Why was Primarily Primates less ready for the Texas freeze than a pizza parlor?             SAN ANTONIO,  Texas––“After 4 days without power, we finally have electricity back at the sanctuary!” Primarily Primates posted on the morning of February 19,  2021. “Due to the tenuous situation here in Texas,”  the posting added,  “we will be using […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Sanctuaries, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Barry Kent MacKay, Brooke Chavez, Carroll Soo-Hoo, Lynn Cuny, Merritt Clifton, Nicole Rivard, Priscilla Feral, Vernon Weir, Violet Soo-Hoo, Wally Swett

Pig transport truck kills animal advocate Regan Russell outside slaughterhouse

September 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Accident reprises 1995 death of British protester Jill Phipps             BURLINGTON, Ontario––Regan Russell, 65,  of Hamilton,  Ontario,  was on June 19,  2020 crushed to death by an 18-wheel livestock transport truck delivering pigs to slaughter at Fearman’s Pork Inc.,  the largest and oldest slaughterhouse in Ontario. A local landmark since 1852,  and the scene of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, The Americas, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Anita Krajnc, Barry Kent MacKay, Marc Bekoff, Mark Powell, Merritt Clifton, Regan Russell, Tita Zed

Ontario allows hunters to kill 50 cormorants a day

December 8, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

“The worst wild game management decision in Canadian history” by Barry Kent MacKay Artist & naturalist:  www.barrykentmackay.ca Director of Canadian & Special ProgramsBorn Free             Doug Ford,  the recently elected prime minister of Ontario,  who at one time claimed to be an ethical vegetarian,  has just proposed what I believe is the single worst wild […]

Filed Under: Birds, Birds, Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Fish, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Marine life, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Predators, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Barry Kent MacKay

What’s on the menu? Mice & rats, frozen or live

December 27, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

South African bust sheds light on a dirty business          KLOOF,  South Africa––Six hundred dead rodents plus dying rats,  rabbits and mice,  left unfed for days,  on December 20,  2016 brought home to the Kloof & Highway SPCA branch of the National SPCA of South Africa what spokesperson Sue Noakes termed “the stark reality of […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Reptiles, Snakes, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Anson Wong, Barry Kent MacKay, Chris Mattison, Feeder Factory, Jason Brent Shaw, Merritt Clifton, National SPCA, Rory Goldin, Sue Noakes

Will new Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau be “Justin other bad guy” for animals?

October 22, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Stephen Harper government,  notorious for defense of Atlantic Canada seal hunt,  ousted after 10 years OTTAWA,  VANCOUVER––“The reign of the Stephen Harper government has collapsed,” exulted Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals executive director Lesley Fox on October 20,  2015,  the morning after Harper’s 10-year Conservative Party of Canada regime collapsed in the 2015 […]

Filed Under: Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Fur trapping, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, PMU, Seals, Slaughter, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Alex Atamenenko, Alka Chandna, Barry Kent MacKay, Dave Shishkoff, Debra Probert, Judith Webster, Judy Stone, Justin Trudeau, Lesley Fox, Liz White, Merritt Clifton, Michel Trudeau, pit-bulls, Silver Donald Cameron, Sinikka Crossland, Stephen Harper

Anne Doncaster, 76, founder or cofounder of four noted animal advocacy organizations

April 25, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Anne Doncaster,  76,  founder or cofounder of four noted animal advocacy organizations,  died of cancer on April 19,  2014 in Toronto,  Ontario. Born Anne Procter,  in 1962 she married former Mississauga Board of Trade president David Doncaster,  who survives her,  and raised three daughters before becoming involved in animal advocacy. Recalled Mississauga.com,  “Anne Doncaster attended […]

Filed Under: Canada, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), The Americas Tagged With: Anne Doncaster, Barry Kent MacKay, Merritt Clifton, Toronto Humane Society

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