3 d. ago Dogs saved from testing lab at Ontario hospital will soon go up for adoption

A group of dogs recently saved from an animal testing facility that was secretly — and shockingly — housed in an Ontario hospital will soon be among the most eligible adoptable pets in the province.Citizens were appalled when news broke last month that scientists at St. Joseph's Health Care in London had been surreptitiously experimenting on pups, forcing them to undergo hours-long heart attacks and eventually killing them in the name of cardiac research.Staff from the medical facility's Lawson Research Institute did their best to hide evidence of the dogs, many of whom were under a year old, going as far as disguising discarded animal food bags and blasting music to cover the noise, according to an Investigative Journalism Bureau exposé that ran in the National Post in early August.Following condemnation from animal activist groups, Premier Doug Ford and the general public, the hospital announced on August 11 t...

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5 d. ago Doug Ford's vow to ban research on dogs will have chilling impact: Carleton researcher

Andy Adler's research was going to help veterinarians with surgery. He shut it down when Doug Ford promised to ban medical testing on cats and dogs.

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9 d. ago Ontario Farmers: Unwanted Agricultural Pesticides and Obsolete Livestock/Equine Medications Events Starting in September

ETOBICOKE, Ontario, Sept. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ontario farmers will have an opportunity this fall to safely dispose of unwanted and obsolete agricultural pesticides & livestock/equine medications(UPLM) through Cleanfarms periodic collection events. This program, offered at no cost to farmers, is funded by Cleanfarms’ crop protection industry members and the Canadian Animal Health Institute […]

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2 w. ago Ontario to end medical research testing on dogs, cats following whistleblower exposé

'If there's anyone else out there that's doing this to animals, come clean, because we're gonna catch you,' says Premier Doug Ford

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2 w. ago Ontario to ban research testing on dogs and cats, premier says

Ontario will ban research testing on dogs and cats, Premier Doug Ford said Monday as he called the practice “cruel. “You aren’t going to use pets — dogs or cats — to experiment on any longer,” Ford said at an unrelated news conference in London, Ont. “Simple as that. We just don’t do that, it’s […]

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3 w. ago UWindsor distances itself from dog testing at London lab tied to professor

The University of Windsor says it does not conduct canine experiments.

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3 w. ago Dogs at centre of London, Ont., hospital testing controversy may be re

Following the announcement that they would stop using dogs in medical research, St. Joseph’s Health Care London says it is working with another agency to explore re-homing them.

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