COVID-19 red ink left the Calgary Zoo with a black-and-white choice CALGARY, Alberta, Canada––Giving up hope that a rare giant panda exhibit will continue to pay for itself––and of managing to keep the pandas fed through the COVID-19 pandemic––the Calgary Zoological Society on May 12, 2020 disclosed to media that it has asked the Canadian […]
Holy cow! Humane Society of Canada loses last bid to keep tax-exempt status
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 […]
Will new Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau be “Justin other bad guy” for animals?
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 […]
Even Dildo buyer loses interest in Atlantic Canadian sealing products
ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland––A token Atlantic Canada seal hunt opened on April 12, 2015, but as of May 4, 2015, only 28,778 seal pelts had been landed, according to the Canadian Department of Fisheries & Oceans, of a quota of 468,000. Potential buyers for seal products were nowhere in sight, despite $5.7 million in […]