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A polar bear who has called Assiniboine Park Zoo home for the last 18 months is on her way back to Toronto.
Juno arrived at the zoo in March 2017 on a temporary basis. She’s been living in the Leatherdale International Polar Bear Conservation Centre ever since.
By Liam Casey, The Canadian Press
A Canadian pig with a huge social media following is out of pain, cancer-free and able to strut around her Ontario home with ease weeks after undergoing surgery.
Owner Steve Jenkins said Esther the Wonder Pig’s “bad year” is now behind her.
By The Canadian Press
BANFF, Alta. – One of three black bear cubs abandoned in a washroom and returned to the wild in Banff National Park this summer has apparently been eaten by a grizzly bear.
Parks Canada says conservation officers found the one-year-old bear’s carcass on Aug. 28 after her GPS collar went into mortality mode when it was stationary for 24 hours.
UPDATE: September 12 — Genaille was arrested Wednesday in the 400 block of Boyd Avenue after a short foot pursuit. He remains in custody.
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Winnipeg police are looking for a man they say stabbed a dog in the face on August 31 in the Lord Selkirk Park area.
WINNIPEG — A new temporary location is housing the Brenda Leipsic Dog Park while construction continues on the second stage of the southwest rapid transitway.
The park, located at the northwest corner of Parker Avenue and Georgina Street, is 3.5 acres in size and can be accessed via Parker Avenue.
By The Canadian Press
BANFF, Alta. – A warning is in effect in Banff National Park after a wolf approached campers in a busy campground.
Parks Canada ecologist Jesse Whittington said the warning on the Bow Valley Parkway, which runs between Banff and Lake Louise, was issued this week because a collared wolf entered the Castle Mountain campground at night on Aug. 27.
By The Canadian Press
RIVERS, Man. – Police in southern Manitoba had to get down and dirty when they were called this week about five puppies trapped in a tunnel.
Officers from the police service in Rivers, about 40 kilometres northwest of Brandon, found four males and one female in an underground burrow that had been dug out by the mother dog.
An eight-year-old girl was injured over the weekend when a black bear attacked her tent at a backcountry campsite on South Cross Lake.
Manitoba Sustainable Development says the attack happened on Saturday and the girl suffered cuts to her face. She was treated and released from hospital, but is said to be in otherwise good condition.
