Month: May 2010

JUSTICE Roy Jones this morning gave defendants Portia Simpson Miller and Joseph Matalon leave to withdraw their names as defendants in a Supreme Court motion brought by Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne. Lightbourne is seeking several […] […]

AT LEAST a dozen dogs have died and a woman has suffered severe burns as she battled to save them from a house fire in Queensland. The fire broke out about 3am this morning and […] […]

VANCOUVER— As early as the 12th century, some churches had “foundling wheels” where mothers could place an unwanted baby in a cylinder from the outside, turn the repository to the inside, and ring a bell […] […]

Update: SAINT-JUDE, QUE.—Nearly 24 hours after a landslide swept a house and the family inside it into a giant crater, the bodies of a couple and their two children were found by rescuers in the […] […]

‘Very aggressive strain’ of ringworm and human error blamed for blanket euthanasia. The MPP for Newmarket-Aurora is speaking out against the “mass destruction” of 350 animals at a York Region SPCA and has urged the […] […]

Hundreds of animals have been sentenced to death following a ringworm outbreak at the OSPCA shelter in Newmarket. Approximately 350 dogs, cats, rats and other small animals—will be put down over the next two or […] […]