Attention politicians! Dog owners DO vote!
Written by Steve Barker on September 30th, 2009
The former mayor of Paradise Newfoundland found out the hard way yesterday that not only do dog owners vote, they don’t forget.
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Maddie, Carter, and Capone are going home!
Written by Steve Barker on September 21st, 2009
The city of Sarnia has issued a press release saying that the three dogs from my earlier story are going to be released to their owners. Great news!
The story of Maddie, Carter, and Capone
Written by Steve Barker on September 19th, 2009
UPDATE Sept 21 2009: All three dogs have been determined to not be “pit bulls” and have been released to their owners.
ORIGINAL STORY September 19 2009: The Dog Legislation Council has been dealing with an issue that, up until yesterday, was kept under the radar in the hopes that things could be worked out amicably between the dogs’ owners and Sarnia Animal Control. Since the story hit the local newspaper yesterday, September 18, I feel it’s necessary to let everyone know what’s going on.
Detailed version of Antonia’s column
Written by Steve Barker on September 18th, 2009
Further to my entry about Antonia Zerbisias’ column in the Toronto Star, her blog has the same text, but with all the links to various stories kept intact. Makes for a more interesting read. Facebook users, click “View Original Post”.
Bryant and bike courier a class issue
Written by Steve Barker on September 18th, 2009
Antonia Zerbisias, columnist for the Toronto Star, focuses on the stark contrast between the public “spin” afforded Bryant (thanks largely to his public relations firm) and the virtual demonization of Sheppard by the same mainstream media outlets.
Kudos to Nackawic! No more BSL!
Written by Steve Barker on September 12th, 2009
Congratulations to Nackawic town council for listening to your dog owners! There are plenty of other places in this country that could learn a thing or two from you.
Congratulations to Kris, Cheyenne, Dakota, and Tahoe!
Written by Steve Barker on September 12th, 2009
Congratulations to Kris, Cheyenne, Dakota, and Tahoe for being presented with the Presidential Volunteer Service Award. Just stay away from Ontario as you travel the continent saving lives.
HSUS killing dogs again!
Written by Steve Barker on February 16th, 2009
You’d think that, after the Michael Vick debacle, the so-called “Humane” Society of the United States might reconsider their blanket belief that all dogs seized from dogfighters should be killed. Well, apparently not!
Welcome to the new chicobandido!
Written by Steve Barker on September 17th, 2008
Welcome to the new chicobandido site. It’s still under construction and I’m still trying to figure out why the right side shows up at the bottom on some people’s computers. Don’t worry, I’ll get it right soon! All of the chicobandido.blogspot.com articles and comments have been transferred over here, but they’re still available on the [...]
Goodbye Ontario!
Written by Steve Barker on January 30th, 2008
Recently, I made the decision to move from Ontario to British Columbia.
Media catches up
Written by Steve Barker on October 31st, 2007
Tuesday uncovered a few more media outlets covering the story of the eleven-year-old boy ordering his dog to attack other children.I won’t be so presumptious as to pretend that letters to the editors from myself and others made a difference. It’s probably just the rest of the news organizations catching up to the Toronto Star. [...]
Where is the media?
Written by Steve Barker on October 29th, 2007
Thank you to the Toronto Star for being the ONLY paper to print this story.I was not able to find the story in any other newspaper. This incident did not happen in a small, obscure town with only one daily or weekly paper. This happened in Toronto, with at least six daily newspapers and many [...]
Agenda? Who? Us?
Written by Steve Barker on October 26th, 2007
The blatant media pandering to an irrational public fear is starting to get a little old.Below, I’ve copied all three articles from the St. Catharines Standard about a dog and woman being bitten by a “pit bull”. I had to do this because, unfortunately, the Standard, like the rest of the Osprey Media publications, start [...]
Dangerous and Disruptive Pets Survey
Written by Steve Barker on October 19th, 2007
Here is a brief summary of a survery conducted by Ipsos Canada. The summary was also produced by Ipsos, so the “interesting tidbits” listed for each city have been selected by the editors of the news release and, as such, may not actually be the most revealing statistics. I’m hoping to get the full report [...]
Woo Hoo!
Written by Steve Barker on October 2nd, 2007
Not much leaves me speechless, but this story at CNN sure did. Based on the history of cases like this in the U.S., I was not expecting a positive outcome for the dogs.Most of Vick’s dogs will go to families and a ‘sanctuary’ Thanks to KC Dog Blog and Donna at Bad Rap for this [...]
Labrador Retriever owner charged with owning a "pit bull"
Written by Steve Barker on September 26th, 2007
One of my own biggest frustrations over the past few years has been how difficult it has been to gather dog owners of ALL breeds together. Together, we’re one of the largest demographics in the country and, together, politicians would have no choice but to listen.Many, many of the people who have supported the fight [...]
Miakoda’s dead
Written by Steve Barker on September 24th, 2007
I received this letter today from East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Please read and act. Miakoda’s dead. My baby. My pride & joy. Cole’s best friend…….is dead. All because of some irresponsible *******. I’ll got into more detail later, but what happened was the temp outside was nice, all the neighbors were out working the yards [...]
MPP’s call for police investigation of McGuinty’s government
Written by Steve Barker on September 7th, 2007
As if we didn’t already have enough reasons to vote the Ontario Liberal government out of office, here’s another. ROBERT W. RUNCIMAN, MPPLeeds-Grenville PETER KORMOS, MPPNiagara Centre For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 6, 2007 PC AND NDP MPP’s call for police investigation of “slushgate” (Toronto) – Progressive Conservative and New Democratic MPP’s joined forces today to call [...]
Ontario "slush fund" report due soon
Written by Steve Barker on July 16th, 2007
Ontarians could finally learn the truth about the so-called Liberal “slush fund” controversy when Auditor General Jim McCarter releases his probe as early as today. Read the entire Toronto Star article.
Subscribing to chicobandido
Written by Steve Barker on July 13th, 2007
To subscribe to the chicobandido blog, copy/paste one of the following addresses into your news reader: Atom: http://chicobandido.blogspot.com/atom.xml RSS: http://chicobandido.blogspot.com/atom.xml?alt=rss Subscribing is a term for using a news reader (also called an RSS/Atom reader or a feed reader) that will regularly and frequently check blogs, news websites, etc, and show you their most recent articles, [...]