{"id":11854,"date":"2012-10-11T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11854"},"modified":"2012-10-17T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:29:28","slug":"ontario-government-responds-to-marineland-allegations-with-crack-down-on-animal-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/ontario-government-responds-to-marineland-allegations-with-crack-down-on-animal-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario government responds to Marineland allegations with crack down on animal abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/ontario-government-responds-to-marineland-allegations-with-crack-down-on-animal-abuse\/article4601088\/?cmpid=rss1&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGlobeAndMail-Front+%28The+Globe+and+Mail+-+Latest+News%29\">Globe and Mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ontario government says it plans to beef up regulations to protect animals kept in zoos and aquariums, including Marineland.<\/p>\n<p>Community Safety Minister Madeleine Meilleur made the announcement in a statement this morning ahead of a noon news conference.<\/p>\n<p>She says the province will work with animal experts and other stakeholders to come up with standards for caring for captive animals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Niagara This Week &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news\/news\/article\/1516372\">Ontario proposes animal welfare law changes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe and Mail: The Ontario government says it plans to beef up regulations to protect animals kept in zoos and aquariums, including Marineland. Community Safety Minister Madeleine Meilleur made the announcement in a statement this morning ahead of a noon news conference. She says the province will work with animal experts and other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,832,2],"tags":[8170,8169,8168,4192,5480,8166,8165,510,8164,67,5992,451,1080,2049,8167,7896],"class_list":["post-11854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-animal-abuse","tag-animal-experts","tag-animal-welfare-law","tag-animals","tag-aquariums","tag-captive-animals","tag-community-safety-minister","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-madeleine-meilleur","tag-marineland","tag-news-conference","tag-niagara-this-week","tag-ontario-government","tag-province","tag-regulations","tag-zoos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15139,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11854\/revisions\/15139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}