CBC News reports on how Toka and Thika, two elephants formerly resident at the Toronto Zoo, are adapting well to their sunset years in a California sanctuary.

For Toka and Thika, retirement is turning out just fine. There's warm sunshine, new friends to spend time with and the chance to do whatever they want ( Read more... )

For people like myself who look back on visits to Marineland wtih fond memories, news like this shared by the Toronto Star's Sammy Hudes is terribly depressing.

Ontario’s animal welfare agency announced six new animal cruelty and neglect charges against Marineland on Monday as part of a continuing investigation into the care of land mammals at the ( Read more... )

Savage Minds introduces the first of several posts to be made this month by Coltan Scrivner about personhood, starting from the question of whether other primates are people.

When the concept of a person is brought up, many seem to begin by comparing the “other” to humans, using our species as a measuring stick. We take for granted that our ( Read more... )

National Geographic's Jani Actman reports on new hope from China re: the world trade in elephant ivory.

China will shut down its domestic ivory trade by the end of 2017, according to an announcement made today by the Chinese government ( Read more... )

CBC's Amara McLaughlin reports on the charges of animal cruelty brought up against Niagara Falls' Marineland. I would say it's time: Certainly the conditions facing animals there, including the cetaceans on display, have often been criticized.

The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has charged Marineland with five counts of ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg talks about Poland's problems with economic growth, notes that McMansions are poor investments, considers what to do about the Olympics post-Rio, looks at new Japanese tax incentives for working women, looks at a French war museum that put its stock up for sale, examines the power of the New Zealand dairy, looks at the Yasukuni ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Noor Javed reports on the potential for the Bowmanville Zoo, one of the oldest in Canada, to survive the summer. Or not, as the case may be.

A sudden burst in attendance and outpouring of support for the Bowmanville zoo is sparking hopes that the embattled facility may be able stay open after all ( Read more... )

Noor Javed of the Toronto Star's reports on the impending end of Bowmanville's zoo, open since 1919.

The exotic animals of the Bowmanville zoo - wolves, tigers, and baboons to name a few- will be looking for new homes after the east-end facility announced Thursday it will be closing at the end of the 2016 season ( Read more... )

Eric Andrew-Gee's article in The Globe and Mail looks at the import of the escaped capybaras of High Park.

[A]s the hunt settled into a waiting game, the capybaras themselves erupted into the city’s collective consciousness. Newspapers breathlessly reported every sighting. TV news trucks became a fixture around High Park. Social media went wild ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes the rise of populism in Mexico, looks at how Europe is losing its reputation as a renewable energy leader, looks at political protest in Zimbabwe, and looks at changing habits of Saudi oil ministers.
• Bloomberg View notes the politicization of the Israeli army, looks at an effort to smuggle Korean pop culture into North Korea, and ( Read more... )