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Montreal SPCA sues SPCA International to try to get back web name

May 15, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“Having difficulty finding valid legal addresses,”  says plaintiff’s attorney MONTREAL––Proceedings in a lawsuit filed by the Montreal SPCA to try to recover the use of the domain name <spca.com> from SPCA International have been delayed because the plaintiffs are having difficulty finding valid legal addresses at which to serve notice on some of the defendants, […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Canada, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Baghdad Pups, Merritt Clifton, Montreal SPCA, Paul Irwin, Pierre Barnoti, Richard Gordon, Terri Crisp

David Wills, ex-Humane Society of the U.S. vice president, gets life in prison

October 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Life sentence rendered after case was before the courts for five years             CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas––David Keith Wills,  68,  former Michigan Humane Society executive director and vice president for investigations at the Humane Society of the U.S.,  was on September 22,  2020 formally sentenced to serve life in federal; prison. Wills was convicted on October 8,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Crustaceans, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Marine life, Meat issues, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: David Keith Wills, John Hoyt, Kitty Block, Maria Candalaria Losoya, Merritt Clifton, Nelva Gonzales Ramos, Paul Irwin, Wayne Pacelle

Holy cow! Humane Society of Canada loses last bid to keep tax-exempt status

March 17, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Canadian Revenue Agency finds speculating in comic books “inappropriate”          TORONTO,  Ontario––Losing a last appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada,  the Humane Society of Canada appears to be on the verge of losing tax-exempt status,  nine years after flunking a Canadian Revenue Agency audit over alleged misuse of donated funds by Michael O’Sullivan,  the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Marine life, Seals, The Americas, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Dominque Bellemare, John Hoyt, Merritt Clifton, Michael O'Sullivan, Paul Irwin, Stephen Harper

David Wills: archived exposés, 1995-1999

December 28, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by Merritt Clifton David K. Wills,  62,  charged in multiple Texas counties in 2015  for alleged felonious continuous sexual abuse of a child and continuous trafficking of a child, first came to my notice as an investigative subject in September 1989,  through conduct which,  unknown to him,  I personally witnessed.   As news editor at the time […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Top, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: David Wills, HSUS, John Hoyt, Merritt Clifton, Michigan Humane Society, Paul Irwin, Wayne Pacelle

Humane Society of Canada stripped of charitable status

August 21, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

President allegedly bought comic books with society money          OTTAWA––The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal on August 19,  2015 upheld a November 17,  2014 decision to revoke the charitable registration of the Humane Society of Canada,  formally called the Humane Society of Canada for the Protection of Animals and the Environment. An advocacy organization,  the […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Canada, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Canadian Revenue Agency, Dominic Bellemare, Humane Society of Canada, Joe Clark, John Hoyt, Merritt Clifton, Michael O'Sullivan, Paul Irwin

HSUS isn’t talking

November 1, 1995 By Merritt Clifton

by Merritt Clifton November 1995 WASHINGTON D.C. ––At deadline the Humane Society of the U.S. had neither confirmed nor denied a report from an HSUS source that the board of directors,  responding to a petition signed by 41 staffers,  agreed over the Columbus Day weekend,  October 7-9,  to prosecute David Wills,  48,  for allegedly embezzling […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: David Wills, Deday LaRene, Gary Tiscornia, John Hoyt, Merritt Clifton, Paul Irwin, Wayne Pacelle

Humane Society of the U.S. settles affairs without a Wills

October 1, 1995 By Merritt Clifton

by Merritt Clifton        WASHINGTON,  D.C.––Humane Society of the United States executive vice president Patricia Forkan is to assume authority over HSUS domestic operations effective on January 1,  1996.  HSUS president Paul Irwin,  now heading domestic operations,  will move over to head the umbrella organization,  Humane Society International,  while current HSI president John Hoyt,  65,  will […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, USA Tagged With: David Wills, John Hoyt, Merritt Clifton, O.J. Ramsey, Patricia Forkan, Paul Irwin

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