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One horse killed, others injured in ’disturbing’ animal cruelty case: Niagara police
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Published Aug 01, 2025 • < 1 minute read
Police have launched an animal cruelty investigation after one horse was killed and several others were injured in Niagara Region.
Niagara regional police say the “disturbing act” occurred at a horse boarding farm near Buchner Road and Highway 140 in Welland.
Police were called Thursday after farm staff found eight horses with injuries and cuts consistent with stab wounds during their routine morning checks.
Investigators say one horse was found dead, one was sent to a veterinary hospital for emergency care, and the others were treated on site.
They say the forensics unit also visited the scene to thoroughly examine the evidence.
Police are asking anyone with information to come forward.
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Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Published Aug 01, 2025 • < 1 minute read
Police have launched an animal cruelty investigation after one horse was killed and several others were injured in Niagara Region.
Niagara regional police say the “disturbing act” occurred at a horse boarding farm near Buchner Road and Highway 140 in Welland.
Police were called Thursday after farm staff found eight horses with injuries and cuts consistent with stab wounds during their routine morning checks.
Investigators say one horse was found dead, one was sent to a veterinary hospital for emergency care, and the others were treated on site.
They say the forensics unit also visited the scene to thoroughly examine the evidence.
Police are asking anyone with information to come forward.
One horse killed, others injured in ’disturbing’ animal cruelty case: Niagara police
Police have launched an animal cruelty investigation after one horse was killed and several others were injured in Niagara Region.
EXCLUSIVE: Puppies secretly tested and killed at Ontario hospital for human heart research
The dogs hidden and killed at the hospital in London, Ont., are among thousands that are subject to scientific testing in Canada every year.
Vigil for dogs killed in research to be held Saturday at St. Joseph's
London's St. Joseph’s Hospital will be the site of a vigil Saturday for dogs and other animals killed in medical experiments shrouded in secrecy, organizers say.
Author of the article:Heather Rivers
Published Aug 08, 2025 • Last updated 18 hours ago • 2 minute read
Photo of puppies in a cage a whistleblower says was taken at the Lawson Research Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ont. The dogs are used for heart research. (Contributed)
Photo of puppies in a cage a whistleblower says was taken at the Lawson Research Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ont. The dogs are used for heart research. (Contributed)
London’s St. Joseph’s Hospital will be the site of a vigil Saturday for dogs and other animals killed in medical experiments shrouded in secrecy, organizers say.
Organized by national animal advocacy group Animal Justice, the vigil at noon will include a memorial space with a banner, photos of some of the animals that have been killed and flowers.
“This vigil is not just a moment of remembrance, it’s a call for change,” Animal Justice said on a Facebook page. “We will stand in solidarity, share words, and reflect with a moment of silence.”
A story published Thursday in the National Post and other Postmedia papers, including the London Free Press, detailed how Lawson Research Institute – the research arm of St. Joseph’s Health Care London – is secretly testing heart attack recovery in humans using dogs and puppies on its sixth floor.
Researchers induce three-hour-long heart attacks in the animals before euthanizing them and removing their hearts for further study, two current staff members say.
Animal Justice also posted a story and photos about the research at Lawson Research Institute on its website Thursday.
The dogs have shown “troubling repetitive behaviours” such as pacing, tail sucking and repeatedly dunking their faces in water, the story said.
The beagles are heard whimpering and screaming in pain during recovery, Animal Justice said.
“Animal care staff are emotionally devastated when animals they bond with are killed,” the story said.
Alanna Devine, director of campaigns for Animal Justice, said Thursday the organization has “been working hard to find loving homes for the dogs and pigs at St. Joseph’s.
“We have been in communication with the hospital asking they release the dogs and pigs for rehoming since whistleblowers reached out to us a couple of months ago,” she said.
Lori Cohen, founder and executive director of the Beagle Alliance based near Winnipeg, has rescued more than 100 beagles from research facilities and is working with Animal Justice.
She said 93 per cent of dogs used in research are beagles because they are “sweet and docile and don’t bite.
“And also they are a manageable size – so facilities can use more of them at a given time which saves space and money,” she said.
In Canada 16,000 beagles are used in research facilities each year and most are euthanized, Cohen said.
St. Joseph’s Health Care London defended the experiments saying they were “regulated and guided by rigorous policies and procedures for high-quality animal care.”
The canine experiments are done “to accurately image post-heart attack injury and healing that we cannot yet decipher using other models,” St. Joseph’s said in the statement.
The story published by Postmedia was written by two reporters with the Investigative Journalism Bureau at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Postmedia supports the collaborative investigative newsroom that partners with academics, researchers and journalists.
The vigil will take place outside the hospital at 268 Grosvenor St.
HRivers@postmedia.com
@HeatheratLFP
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London's St. Joseph’s Hospital will be the site of a vigil Saturday for dogs and other animals killed in medical experiments shrouded in secrecy, organizers say.
Author of the article:Heather Rivers
Published Aug 08, 2025 • Last updated 18 hours ago • 2 minute read
Photo of puppies in a cage a whistleblower says was taken at the Lawson Research Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ont. The dogs are used for heart research. (Contributed)
Photo of puppies in a cage a whistleblower says was taken at the Lawson Research Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ont. The dogs are used for heart research. (Contributed)
London’s St. Joseph’s Hospital will be the site of a vigil Saturday for dogs and other animals killed in medical experiments shrouded in secrecy, organizers say.
Organized by national animal advocacy group Animal Justice, the vigil at noon will include a memorial space with a banner, photos of some of the animals that have been killed and flowers.
“This vigil is not just a moment of remembrance, it’s a call for change,” Animal Justice said on a Facebook page. “We will stand in solidarity, share words, and reflect with a moment of silence.”
A story published Thursday in the National Post and other Postmedia papers, including the London Free Press, detailed how Lawson Research Institute – the research arm of St. Joseph’s Health Care London – is secretly testing heart attack recovery in humans using dogs and puppies on its sixth floor.
Researchers induce three-hour-long heart attacks in the animals before euthanizing them and removing their hearts for further study, two current staff members say.
Animal Justice also posted a story and photos about the research at Lawson Research Institute on its website Thursday.
The dogs have shown “troubling repetitive behaviours” such as pacing, tail sucking and repeatedly dunking their faces in water, the story said.
The beagles are heard whimpering and screaming in pain during recovery, Animal Justice said.
“Animal care staff are emotionally devastated when animals they bond with are killed,” the story said.
Alanna Devine, director of campaigns for Animal Justice, said Thursday the organization has “been working hard to find loving homes for the dogs and pigs at St. Joseph’s.
“We have been in communication with the hospital asking they release the dogs and pigs for rehoming since whistleblowers reached out to us a couple of months ago,” she said.
Lori Cohen, founder and executive director of the Beagle Alliance based near Winnipeg, has rescued more than 100 beagles from research facilities and is working with Animal Justice.
She said 93 per cent of dogs used in research are beagles because they are “sweet and docile and don’t bite.
“And also they are a manageable size – so facilities can use more of them at a given time which saves space and money,” she said.
In Canada 16,000 beagles are used in research facilities each year and most are euthanized, Cohen said.
St. Joseph’s Health Care London defended the experiments saying they were “regulated and guided by rigorous policies and procedures for high-quality animal care.”
The canine experiments are done “to accurately image post-heart attack injury and healing that we cannot yet decipher using other models,” St. Joseph’s said in the statement.
The story published by Postmedia was written by two reporters with the Investigative Journalism Bureau at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Postmedia supports the collaborative investigative newsroom that partners with academics, researchers and journalists.
The vigil will take place outside the hospital at 268 Grosvenor St.
HRivers@postmedia.com
@HeatheratLFP
Vigil for dogs killed in research to be held at St. Joseph's hospital
St. Joseph’s Hospital in London will be the site of a “peaceful” vigil Saturday for dogs killed in medical experiments shrouded in secrecy
Did sex rock couple in parked car to their doom off Brazil cliff?
Author of the article
enette Wilford
Published Aug 11, 2025 • Last updated 22 hours ago • 1 minute read
Adriana Machado Ribeiro. left, and Marcone da Silva Cardoso, who died after car they were believed to be having sex in fell off cliff in Brazil.
Couple Marcone da Silva Cardoso, 26, and Adriana Machado Ribeiro, 42, died on Aug. 4.
A man and woman are dead after a car it’s believed they were having sex in went over a cliff.
Marcone da Silva Cardoso, 26, and Adriana Machado Ribeiro, 42, were in a parked car at Venda Nova do Imigrante scenic overlook in Brazil in the early hours of Aug. 4 when the movement from their intimate moment sent them over the 400-metre (1,300-foot) drop, the U.K. Sun reported.
Cardoso and Ribeiro are said to have been ejected naked from the vehicle after about 100 metres before the car tumbled another 300 metres before coming to a rest, completely destroyed.
The couple of six months had left a party before heading to the area, where the ground was wet, and eventually slid down a hang-gliding ramp, official Alberto Roque Peres told CNN Brazil.
The vehicle was located hours later by a local caretaker.
Cardoso and Ribeiro were found naked at the base of a rock, not far from the mangled wreckage.
“I saw the car’s engine very far away,” witness Tiago Amorim said, according to CNN. “It was a shocking scene, the car was destroyed.”
The case remains under investigation as authorities await forensic reports. There was no initial evidence suggesting others were involved.
“There were no signs of violence at the scene or on the bodies, and the car’s handbrake was engaged,” Peres said, per the Sun.
“Residents reported hearing a loud noise between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m., but because it was dark and the vegetation was thick, no one saw anything at the time.”
Ribeiro was a mother of two, while Cardoso was the father of a four-year-old son.
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Author of the article
enette WilfordPublished Aug 11, 2025 • Last updated 22 hours ago • 1 minute read
Adriana Machado Ribeiro. left, and Marcone da Silva Cardoso, who died after car they were believed to be having sex in fell off cliff in Brazil.
Couple Marcone da Silva Cardoso, 26, and Adriana Machado Ribeiro, 42, died on Aug. 4.
A man and woman are dead after a car it’s believed they were having sex in went over a cliff.
Marcone da Silva Cardoso, 26, and Adriana Machado Ribeiro, 42, were in a parked car at Venda Nova do Imigrante scenic overlook in Brazil in the early hours of Aug. 4 when the movement from their intimate moment sent them over the 400-metre (1,300-foot) drop, the U.K. Sun reported.
Cardoso and Ribeiro are said to have been ejected naked from the vehicle after about 100 metres before the car tumbled another 300 metres before coming to a rest, completely destroyed.
The couple of six months had left a party before heading to the area, where the ground was wet, and eventually slid down a hang-gliding ramp, official Alberto Roque Peres told CNN Brazil.
The vehicle was located hours later by a local caretaker.
Cardoso and Ribeiro were found naked at the base of a rock, not far from the mangled wreckage.
“I saw the car’s engine very far away,” witness Tiago Amorim said, according to CNN. “It was a shocking scene, the car was destroyed.”
The case remains under investigation as authorities await forensic reports. There was no initial evidence suggesting others were involved.
“There were no signs of violence at the scene or on the bodies, and the car’s handbrake was engaged,” Peres said, per the Sun.
“Residents reported hearing a loud noise between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m., but because it was dark and the vegetation was thick, no one saw anything at the time.”
Ribeiro was a mother of two, while Cardoso was the father of a four-year-old son.
Quem era casal que morreu após sexo no carro em penhasco do ES | CNN Brasil
Marcone da Silva Cardoso, de 26 anos, e Adriana Machado Ribeiro, de 42 anos, morreram após o carro em que estavam despencar de uma rampa de voo livre
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Romping couple plunge to their deaths as car rolled off 1,300ft cliff
A COUPLE died when their car plunged 1,300ft off a cliff while they were having sex. Adriana Machado Ribeiro, 42, and Marcone da Silva Cardoso, 26, had driven to a hang-gliding launch ramp after a …
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Did sex rock couple in parked car to their doom off Brazil cliff?
A man and woman are dead after a car they were believed to be having sex with fell from a scenic overlook off a cliff.
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Wyoming man indicted for allegedly hitting wolf with snowmobile, bringing it to bar and killing it
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Mead Gruver
Published Aug 21, 2025 • 2 minute read
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A Wyoming man who allegedly hit a wolf with a snowmobile, taped the wounded animal’s mouth shut and showed it off in a rural bar before killing it has been indicted on an animal cruelty charge by a grand jury nearly a year and a half after the incident.
Cody Roberts last year paid a $250 fine for illegal possession of wildlife but avoided more serious charges as investigators struggled to find cooperative witnesses. Wyoming law gives wide leeway for people to kill wolves and other predators by a variety of means in the vast majority of the state.
Even so, the 12-person grand jury found enough evidence over the past two weeks to support the charge of felony animal cruelty, Sublette County Attorney Clayton Melinkovich said in a statement Wednesday.
Melinkovich had no further comment on the case. Roberts has not commented on the case and did not have a listed working number, nor an attorney on file in state District Court who might comment on his behalf.
If convicted, Roberts faces up to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Widely circulated photos showed a man identified as Roberts posing with the wolf, its mouth bound with tape, on Feb. 29, 2024, in a bar near Daniel, a town of about 150 people about 50 miles (80 kilometres) south of Jackson.
Video clips showed the same animal lying on a floor, alive but barely moving.
The light punishment against Roberts led to calls for a Wyoming tourism boycott, to little apparent effect. Yellowstone National Park had its second-busiest year on record in 2024, up more than 5% from 2023.
Grand juries in Wyoming are rare. The last one to get significant attention, in 2019, found that a sheriff’s deputy did not commit involuntary manslaughter by killing an unarmed man after a traffic stop.
Government-sponsored poisoning, trapping and bounty hunting all but wiped out wolves in the lower 48 states in the 19th and 20th centuries. Starting in the 1990s, a reintroduction program brought them back to Yellowstone and central Idaho, and their numbers have rebounded.
Though wolves remain listed as a federally endangered or threatened species in most of the country, they have no such protection in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, where they can be hunted and trapped.
Exceptions include Yellowstone and neighbouring Grand Teton National Park, where hunting is prohibited and the wild canines are a major attraction for millions of tourists. In 85% percent of Wyoming, wolves are classified as predators and can be freely killed by virtually any means.
The so-called predator zone includes Sublette County, where the wolf was killed. Groups including the Humane Society argued that Wyoming’s animal cruelty law could nonetheless apply there.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Mead Gruver
Published Aug 21, 2025 • 2 minute read
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A Wyoming man who allegedly hit a wolf with a snowmobile, taped the wounded animal’s mouth shut and showed it off in a rural bar before killing it has been indicted on an animal cruelty charge by a grand jury nearly a year and a half after the incident.
Cody Roberts last year paid a $250 fine for illegal possession of wildlife but avoided more serious charges as investigators struggled to find cooperative witnesses. Wyoming law gives wide leeway for people to kill wolves and other predators by a variety of means in the vast majority of the state.
Even so, the 12-person grand jury found enough evidence over the past two weeks to support the charge of felony animal cruelty, Sublette County Attorney Clayton Melinkovich said in a statement Wednesday.
Melinkovich had no further comment on the case. Roberts has not commented on the case and did not have a listed working number, nor an attorney on file in state District Court who might comment on his behalf.
If convicted, Roberts faces up to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Widely circulated photos showed a man identified as Roberts posing with the wolf, its mouth bound with tape, on Feb. 29, 2024, in a bar near Daniel, a town of about 150 people about 50 miles (80 kilometres) south of Jackson.
Video clips showed the same animal lying on a floor, alive but barely moving.
The light punishment against Roberts led to calls for a Wyoming tourism boycott, to little apparent effect. Yellowstone National Park had its second-busiest year on record in 2024, up more than 5% from 2023.
Grand juries in Wyoming are rare. The last one to get significant attention, in 2019, found that a sheriff’s deputy did not commit involuntary manslaughter by killing an unarmed man after a traffic stop.
Government-sponsored poisoning, trapping and bounty hunting all but wiped out wolves in the lower 48 states in the 19th and 20th centuries. Starting in the 1990s, a reintroduction program brought them back to Yellowstone and central Idaho, and their numbers have rebounded.
Though wolves remain listed as a federally endangered or threatened species in most of the country, they have no such protection in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, where they can be hunted and trapped.
Exceptions include Yellowstone and neighbouring Grand Teton National Park, where hunting is prohibited and the wild canines are a major attraction for millions of tourists. In 85% percent of Wyoming, wolves are classified as predators and can be freely killed by virtually any means.
The so-called predator zone includes Sublette County, where the wolf was killed. Groups including the Humane Society argued that Wyoming’s animal cruelty law could nonetheless apply there.
Wyoming man indicted for allegedly hitting wolf with snowmobile, bringing it to bar and killing it
A Wyoming man who allegedly killed a wolf has been indicted on an animal cruelty charge.
