Raising awareness to Ontario’s broken animal welfare legislation and enforcement system
Raising awareness to Ontario’s broken animal welfare legislation and enforcement system
Raising awareness to Ontario’s broken animal welfare legislation and enforcement system
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
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 moreThis 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 morePeople 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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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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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 moreThe 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 moreOntario 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 moreDoug 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 moreHOT 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 […]
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