Donna, Author at Humane Initiative

8 January 20268 January 2026

Time is running out to be heard! Deadline is 5pm on January 9

Animals for Research Act, Bill 75 – New proposed legislation is lacking critical changes to help ease the suffering of innocent animals. Public have until tomorrow at 5pm to tell […]

27 December 202527 December 2025

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 are closing their doors at alarming rates. The […]

22 December 202523 December 2025

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 in Addison, ONT (just north of Brockville). We […]

16 December 202516 December 2025

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 these conditions and felt no further action was […]

11 December 202511 December 2025

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 it. Can you imagine your beloved pet has […]

26 November 202526 November 2025

Ontario – Have Your Say!

Doug Ford has tabled his proposed Legislative changes regarding animals used in research. These amendments have been added to an already existing bill – Bill 75 – Keeping Criminals Behind […]

24 November 202524 November 2025

HOT OFF THE PRESS: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-lab-test-dogs-ridglan-farms Under Ontario’s Animals for Research Act, this inhumane cruelty quietly exists. Doug Ford portrayed the angered, disgusted public figure as the horrors of dog experiments […]

22 November 202522 November 2025

Nearly 6 months – Still no court date?

On June 5, 2025, Stephanie Redlick who operates Above The Stars Equine Rescue, was charged with: As of late November there is still no court date scheduled! These charges came […]

12 November 202512 November 2025

Outrage Directed at CFIA Grows

A heartfelt and furious email from an eyewitness (Mel Clifford) to the cull demands accountability from CFIA for their decisions and subsequent actions as 900 shots ring out and over […]

5 November 20255 November 2025

Where is Binx?

Binx was taken by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry last Wednesday, October 29th. Her location or state of health is unknown. Sweet Binx is (was) one of 16 […]

19 October 202519 October 2025

An Op Ed from the heart

The Pointer newspaper asked me if I would write an article for their Editorial section about the state of animal welfare in Ontario. (Please see link to The Pointer article […]

6 October 20256 October 2025

Marineland Plays the Guilt Card

THE BELUGA’S ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME! Marineland continues not to take responsibility for their actions in this whole entire inhumane failure. Their years of neglect and putting greed over […]

14 September 202514 September 2025

Attention Animal Lovers in Ontario

We continue to get many messages from people pushing back at some of our posts on social media. And I mean really pushing back. Telling us we are liars, we […]

11 September 202511 September 2025

Animals in Distress – AWS Fails to Act – AGAIN!

OH MY GOSH ONTARIO – WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS Why do the animals of this province have to be let down time and time again by the very taxpayer […]

6 September 20256 September 2025

Ontario’s Shameful Animal Welfare Policies – Are they reflecting YOUR values???

On October 20, 2025 – after 137 DAYS ON VACATION our provincially elected officials shuffle back into Queen’s Park to do the people’s business. Yes our business! They work for […]

3 September 20254 September 2025

Would the “real” Doug Ford please stand up!

Three recent quotes from Doug Ford in relation to dogs and cats being used in scientific experiments in Ontario: “You aren’t going to use pets — cats or dogs — to experiment […]

1 September 20251 September 2025

Does this make you mad ENOUGH to act?

WELLESLEY,ONTARIO This puppy mill is known to and actually licensed by the municipality. Mayor Joe Nowak knows all about puppy mills in his little kingdom. This particular puppy mill is […]

26 August 202526 August 2025

Hypocrite!

“I can’t believe they got away with that this long, and I gotta thank the whistleblower that, you know, sent me pictures and texted me and everything else,” he said. “That […]

25 August 202525 August 2025

Six Years Ago Doug Ford made a Promise….We are still waiting!

In 2019, the Ontario government knew that the responsibility of overseeing animal welfare would be changing hands from the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) to […]

20 August 202520 August 2025

Will Justice Truly be Served?

4 LUCKY PAWS RESCUE – THE TRIAL OF KATELYN LIDKEA PETERBOROUGH – TODAY, AUG 20 In under 5 hrs, Katelyn Lidkea will hear her sentence! I have been through this […]

19 August 202519 August 2025

Just Don’t Look Away

Standing up and stopping animal cruelty, abuse, abandonment and neglect falls on ALL OF US. No one gets a pass, permission to look away as if pretending they did not […]

Author: Donna