Canadian tourist in the U.S. accused of kidnapping and torturing a flamingo at a hotel

Chris Knight / nationalpost - Police say the 33-year-old from Ontario entered the wildlife habitat at the Flamingo Las Vegas and grabbed a bird named 'Peachy,' injuring others in the process

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Group calls on Health Canada to make labels mandatory for gene-edited pork

sootoday - HALIFAX — An advocacy group of farmers and environmental organizations wants Health Canada to implement mandatory labelling on pork from gene-edited pigs. Earlier this year, the federal agency approved the sale of gene-edited pigs as food.

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One person injured, dog dead after suspected arson at Windsor, Ont., home

Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Windsor police say they are investigating the Sunday night fire as a suspected arson.

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Manitoba government eyes marine conservation area in western Hudson Bay

Steve Lambert / nationalobserver - Oceans North, an environmental charitable group, said the region is a special ecosystem, home to roughly one-quarter of the world's beluga whale population.

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CFIA official tells of threats and harassment that dogged ostrich cull operation

Globalnews Digital / globalnews - As Canadian Food Inspection Agency workers prepared for a cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm, they came under a variety of harassment from opponents of the operation, said a senior official with the agency. They peaked with the “extr…

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Ottawa gives conditional approval for Marineland to export remaining belugas to U.S.

News Staff / citynews - Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says she has provided conditional approval for the export of Marineland’s remaining beluga whales to the United States. Thompson says in a statement posted on social media that she met with Marineland on Monday a…

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Australia culls dingoes linked to attack on Canadian Piper James, found dead on beach

sootoday - A pack of "aggressive" dingoes involved in the death of 19-year-old Canadian Piper James on an Australian beach is being culled, government officials have announced.

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Marineland seeks permits to ship remaining whales and dolphins to U.S.

Liam Casey / theglobeandmail - Otherwise it will proceed with its backup plan to kill 30 belugas and four dolphins

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Judge upholds cat custody ruling, saying parenthood and pet ownership are different

Rob Drinkwater / nationalobserver - An Alberta judge has divided up a group of cats between two feuding former spouses, saying neither gets to keep all of them because — in Alberta at least — pets aren’t the same as kids and legally shouldn’t be treated as such.

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Nova Scotia youth attacked by three dogs has died, school officials say

theglobeandmail - The ‘large-breed’ dogs attacked a child on Upper Sandy Cove Road in the community of Welshtown on Saturday, RCMP say

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French actor Brigitte Bardot remembered in Canada for fighting seal hunt

News Staff / citynews - French actor Brigitte Bardot who died Sunday at the age of 91, was also an animal rights activist and a vocal opponent of Canada’s seal hunt. Bardot, who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century, is known to be the first high-profile c…

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Fan-favourite lion put down at Toronto Zoo after months of veterinary care

sootoday - TORONTO — The Toronto Zoo says it has euthanized one of its lions after the animal spent several months undergoing veterinary care for a gastrointestinal symptoms.

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Search for grizzly behind 'extraordinary attack' on B.C. school group is called off

sootoday - Conservation officers in British Columbia are no longer actively trying to capture the grizzly bear responsible for last month's "extraordinary attack" on a group of schoolchildren and teachers that left four with severe injuries.

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Two more grizzlies captured, to be evaluated after B.C. attack on schoolchildren

theglobeandmail - Conservation officers continue to search for the bear that left three children and a teacher seriously injured

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Search continues for grizzly bear that attacked students, teachers in B.C.

Wolfgang Depner and Ashley Joannou / theglobeandmail - No decision has been made on whether to euthanize the bear if it is caught

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11 injured in grizzly bear attack on elementary class in Bella Coola, B.C.

Denette Wilford / torontosun - One male teacher 'got the whole brunt of it' and was among those who were taken from the scene by helicopter

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WARMINGTON: All 330 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms have been culled, video evidence shows

Joe Warmington / torontosun - Many questions remain, including why were rifles used to kill the ostriches and will the CFIA conduct autopsies?

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Supreme Court of Canada won't hear appeal of ostrich cull order

The Canadian Press / nationalobserver -

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