Dakota Update – Carly Young’s Cruelty Trial Resumes This Thursday
This coming Thursday, January 29 in a Welland courtroom the trial of Carly Young resumes. She is charged under the Provincial Offences […]
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Animal Welfare Service – PAWS Enforcement agency
Bill 35 – Ontario Captive Wildlife Protection Act
This proposed legislation is much overdue. Humane Initiative applauds Liberal MPP’s Lucille Collard and Karen McCrimmon for spearheading this. Ontario has lagged […]
Debunking PC Gov Claims About Ontario’s Animal Welfare Crisis
Humane Initiative was asked by The Pointer newspaper to write an opinion editorial (Op Ed) about the current state of Ontario’s animal […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]