Animal Alliance of Canada sends lawyer’s letter to Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry regarding illegality of wildlife-killing contest in Belleville Animal Alliance of Canada Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
TORONTO, Feb. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Animal Alliance of Canada, along with allied organizations, has yet again hired lawyer, Peter Copeland, to compose a letter opposing wildlife-killing contests in Ontario.
The letter urges Minister John Yakabuski to ensure that his ministry’s own regulations are enforced. This is regarding a coyote-killing contest sponsored by a hunting supply store in Belleville. That contest offers rewards, or “gains” to those who bring in the dead bodies of the largest coyotes, and the smallest.
Texas scientists: Power outages show why Texas must prepare for climate change
A man walks home with a case of drinking water distributed at the Literacy Achieves nonprofit in Vickery Meadow to nearby residents living without water after a winter storm brought snow and continued freezing temperatures to North Texas on Feb. 18.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
By Ginny Catania and Katharine Hayhoe
1:30 AM on Feb 24, 2021 CST
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Last week, ice, snow and record-breaking cold left millions across Texas without electricity, heat or water, and with homes damaged or destroyed. Roughly 4 million homes and up to 15 million people had no power for several days, and 13 million homes had no water or poor water quality.