PAWS CHARGES ARE NOT CRIMINAL CHARGES
Many police services throughout Ontario are not aware that Animal Cruelty is part of Canada’s Criminal Code (Sections 445 – 447) and are therefore within their authority and it is […]
Read moreCategory: Legislation
Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act (PAWS Act). As of June/2024, includes the PUPS Act.
– Standards of Care
– Enforcement, justice
– Roles of AWS, Police, bylaw, Animal Control
ONTARIO’S ANIMAL WELFARE CRISIS
We would like to share with you a letter we just wrote to provincial elected leaders and key decision makers regarding how Ontario’s animal welfare crisis is out of control. […]
Read morePAWS Act: Standards of Care – Legal does not necessarily mean HUMANE!
Under Ontario’s Standards of Care, the standards are indicated as “basic”. These are baseline obligations that the province has set to avoid violating the law. These “basic” standards have been […]
Read moreToo Little, Too Late.
This is (or should I say WAS Rudy). Rudy died of parvo 9 days after being purchased. Rudy died because a puppy mill in Ontario never had him vaccinated. They […]
Read moreAnimal Abusers continue to play weak animal welfare “justice” system
People in Ontario who horribly mistreat, torture, neglect and even kill animals in Ontario go to TRAFFIC COURT!!! In very rare cases, the individual will be charged under the Criminal […]
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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 behind every province in having protections for wild […]
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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 Welfare Crisis. We did one previously – in […]
Read moreDo 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 […]
Read moreAnimals 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 […]
Read moreOntario – 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 […]
Read moreStop these laboratories!
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 […]
Read moreWhere 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 […]
Read moreAnimals 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 […]
Read moreOntario’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 […]
Read moreWould 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 […]
Read moreDoes 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 […]
Read moreHypocrite!
“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 […]
Read moreSix 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 […]
Read moreAnimal Testing – Doug Ford speaking out of both sides of his mouth!!!!
A whistleblower (God love them!!!) in London, ONT has blown the lid off of a horrible case of animal cruelty at St.Joseph’s Health Care – London which has ignited a […]
Read moreThis is not going to get better on its own!
Premier Doug Ford, Solicitor General Michael Kerzner, Minister Mike Harris (MNRF) and AWS Chief Melanie Milczynski are not interested in protecting animals – they just are not. They are more […]
Read moreAWS Inspectors Refuse To ID Themselves When Asked
Let us Ontarian’s not forget, the government works for us and is paid for BY us. With that is mind, I think it is more than fair for the taxpayers […]
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