August 6, 2014Wondering what the new Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) and what it means for you? The federal government passed the Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) to regulate electronic activities of businesses and charities, and the new legislation came into effect on July 1, 2014. Broadly speaking, CASL is a complex piece of legislation that changes the ways …
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July 31, 2014Rupert Wilson, the owner of a two-year-old shepherd-cross dog who was found emaciated and near death near Port Hardy last November, has received a 10-year prohibition on owning animals. Wilson, who was charged under the Criminal Code of Canada following a BC SPCA investigation, was also given a three-month jail term (conditional sentence order), one …
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July 31, 2014An Esquimalt resident has received a lifetime ban on owning animals following a BC SPCA animal cruelty investigation. In August 2013, Hubert Henry was charged under both the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and the Criminal Code of Canada for badly neglecting his female pit bull. The one-year-old dog was tethered outdoors without access …
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July 15, 2014A Metchosin couple has been banned from owning dogs for five years after pleading guilty of animal cruelty. In January, Dave and Beverly Bickerdike were charged under both the Criminal Code of Canada and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act after SPCA animal protection officers responded to complaints that animals in the couple’s care …
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June 9, 2014The BC SPCA is recommending charges of animal cruelty against eight employees of Canada’s largest dairy farm, following a BC SPCA investigation in Chilliwack. “On June 2, the BC SPCA received an undercover video from the non-profit group Mercy for Animals Canada that showed the employees using chains, canes, rakes, their booted feet and their …
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June 4, 2014Charges of animal cruelty have been laid against a Colwood couple following a BC SPCA investigation into a brutal attack on the family’s dog. Joseph White and Elizabeth Johnston have been charged under the Criminal Code of Canada after their dog Bryn sustained severe injuries consistent with blunt force trauma. “When she came into our …
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May 26, 2014The BC SPCA announced today it will be recommending charges of animal cruelty against a Lower Mainland dog walker after six dogs died in her care on May 13. Dubbed the “Brookswood Six” by local media, the dogs were initially reported stolen by the dog walker, but on May 18 she admitted that the dogs …
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April 22, 2014A four-month-old German shepherd puppy is recovering from multiple pellet-shot wounds after being found in a B.C. provincial park near Niskonlith Lake, near Chase. The BC SPCA has launched an investigation and is hoping someone in the community has information about the person or persons responsible. “Some individuals out walking their dogs by Nisquanles Lake …
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April 22, 2014WARNING: Graphic content below The BC SPCA is hoping the public can help solve an animal cruelty case involving a deceased dog found near Revelstoke, B.C. “A member of the avalanche control safety patrol found a large cardboard box at a truck turn-around on the Western boundary of Glacier National Park,” says BC SPCA …
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April 15, 2014The BC SPCA is seeking the public’s help to care for Savannah, an emaciated pregnant mare and four other horses seized this month from a rural property in the Fraser Valley. “The horses were severely undernourished and were suffering from a range of medical issues,” said BC SPCA senior animal protection officer Eileen Drever. “The …
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