Critters

When Jill Edwards leaves home in the mornings she’s not looking forward to what she knows she’s going to see. While others still sleep, Edwards is making her pre-work patrol in lower Downtown around the Yonge corridor from 5:30 to ...

John Bennett — Mine was in a University of Toronto auditorium listening to Greenpeace Founder Bob Hunter describe the first voyage to “Save the Whales” back in 1976. “Save the Whales” became ‎the catch phrase of the 70s, synonymous with ...

St. Lawrence Neighborhood dog owners are a sociable bunch and many congregate on the playground and baseball field in Crombie Park bounded by Frederick, The Esplanade and Sherbourne. Their dogs romp and play and poop. Most local dog owners pick ...

Ontario is moving ahead with enhanced standards of care for marine mammals – such as  dolphins, belugas and walruses – to ensure both greater protection and improved treatment. These new standards of care, reflecting advice from an expert report by ...

Frank Touby — Oct. 8, 2014 and Tank is settling in better. We’re still at our cottage at Lake Erie. He’s still sutured to me at the hip, having lived in a totally male world. But Paulette is slowly making ...

Frank Touby — Oct. 6, 2014 was our first day together outside Tank’s familiar turf of St. Lawrence Neighbourhood. It would be our second night together. It was also the first time he was in for a 90-minute Jeep drive ...

Marty McKendry — This exchange took place in Senate Question Period Oct. 2 as the result of a question on the captivity of whales and dolphins asked by Ottawa resident Caroline McNaught: Hon. Wilfred P. Moore: My question today is for ...

Frank Touby — When Danny Murphy passed away last month, his many local friends were bereft. But most of all, his beloved black Labrador retriever, Tank, was frantic over the loss. Tank was as well known as Danny and had ...

  On Oct. 2, local animal rights activists, along with U.S.-based nonprofit Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), will hold a 12-hour protest at the Maple Leaf Poultry slaughterhouse to protest the brutalization and killing of animals. The protest is part ...

Bring your animals to St. Paul’s Basilica on the Feast Day of  St. Francis, Oct. 4 from 10 a.m. to noon. “They don’t have to be Catholic,” says Fr. Frank McDevitt, pastor of the church and son of an Albion ...