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Month: December 2025

2025-12-272025-12-27General

Animal Welfare in Ontario – Looking back at 2025

It has not been a good year. The animal welfare crisis is out of control. Rescues drowning in debt and burnt out […]

2025-12-222025-12-23AWS, General, Rescues

Multiple visits by Animal Welfare Services – they continue to do nothing to protect the dogs!

Humane Initiative has been contacted by a number of people who have first hand, eyewitness accounts of the conditions at Nakoma Rescue […]

2025-12-162025-12-16AWS, Legislation

Do you think it is OK for dogs to be kept like this?

The Ontario government does! Provincial Animal Welfare Services has visited this rescue in eastern Ontario twice in the last year. They saw […]

2025-12-112025-12-11Animal Research, Legislation

Animals for Research Act Amendments

Ontario is THE ONLY province that mandates dogs and cats to be sold to research labs. Quebec allows it, but Ontario mandates […]

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  • Debunking PC Gov Claims About Ontario’s Animal Welfare Crisis

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