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Meet The Pandas!

CP | Posted 05.18.2013 | Canada

TORONTO -- The Toronto Zoo's two new stars can finally meet their fans. An exhibit featuring giant pandas on loan from China officially opens to th...

Althia Raj

What If Something Happened To These National Treasures?

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 03.27.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA — The delivery of two of China’s prized giant pandas in Toronto Monday was heralded as a sign of warmer relations between that country’s ...

HELLO PANDAS

CP | Diana Mehta, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.25.2013 | Canada Living

TORONTO - They arrived to much fan fare — a hands-on greeting from the prime minister, a roar of applause and a rousing performance from a school ba...

Three Polar Bear Cubs Dead At Toronto Zoo

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.09.2013 | Canada

TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo says three polar bears born at the facility to the same mother last Thursday have died.The first male cub died shortly after...

Toronto Council Kills Zoo Sale.. Ford Brothers Notwithstanding

CBC | Posted 12.05.2012 | Canada Politics

The Toronto Zoo is not for sale. Just a few days after the City of Toronto took a step toward selling or leasing Canada's largest zoo, cou...

Anyone Want To Buy A Zoo?

CBC | Posted 12.02.2012 | Canada

Mayor Rob Ford is in favour of selling the Toronto Zoo, preferably at a profit for the taxpayers. "I'd love to see us sell the zoo and mak...

Don't Pack Your Trunk Just Yet

CP | Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.25.2012 | Canada

TORONTO - Wrangling over the transfer of three aging elephants from the Toronto Zoo to a wildlife sanctuary in California persisted Tuesday with each ...

Toronto Elephants To Stay Put Until Cooler Weather

CBC | Huffington Post Canada Travel | Posted 09.21.2012 | Canada Travel

The trio of elephants at the Toronto Zoo won't be leaving town this summer. The organization tasked with transporting them to a Californi...

California All The Way For Toronto Elephants

CP | Posted 09.16.2012 | Canada

LOS ANGELES -- For elephants to fly, you have to do more than load trunks on a plane. Pat Derby, co-founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Societ...

Toronto Elephants Can't Move To California Yet: Group

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 08.20.2012 | Canada Travel

TORONTO - Toronto Zoo staff finally got a look Wednesday at some records that had held up the transfer of three elephants to a U.S. sanctuary.But it's...

Toronto Zoo's Cute Fight

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 06.19.2012 | Canada Living

It's no secret that we at The Huffington Post Canada love baby animals. So we're thrilled to find out about the Toronto Zoo's Cute Fight. Yep, a Fa...

The Toronto Zoo's Elephants Won't Forget

Peter Worthington | Posted 07.29.2012 | Canada
Peter Worthington

The system is being foiled in the case of the proposed and agreed upon plan to send the Toronto Zoo's three remaining African elephants to an elephant sanctuary in California run by PAWS. To some, it seems a predictable case of the bureaucracy -- i.e.: the zoo people who want the prestige of having elephants -- trying to short circuit or sabotage decisions of those who are their bosses.

10 Great Day Trips For Families

Travelocity | Posted 05.25.2012 | Canada Travel

Summer vacation is upon us and many families are planning their next great adventure. Excitement can be found close to home as our great nation boasts...

White Lions Make Dazzling Debut In TO

CBC | Posted 07.04.2012 | Canada

A pair of young, cuddly looking white lions made their debut at the Toronto Zoo on Friday. A male and a female cub were on di...

Treatment Of Elephants Causes Toronto Zoo To Lose International Accreditation

CBC | Posted 06.18.2012 | Canada Living

The decision by Toronto city council to send three elephants from the Toronto Zoo to an animal sanctuary in California has apparently cos...

Welcome To The World, Baby Penguin

CBC | Posted 05.10.2012 | Canada

Toronto Zoo officials are hailing their African penguin-breeding program a success after announcing the birth of the zoo's first chick. ...

Toronto Zoo Tiger Fatally Wounded In Fight

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.14.2012 | Canada

TORONTO - A rare Sumatran tiger died at the Toronto Zoo on Thursday after she was badly injured in a fight with a younger male tiger, zoo officials sa...

Toronto Zoo Accreditation At Risk Following Elephant Transfer Concerns

CBC | Posted 01.19.2012 | Canada

The Toronto Zoo's accreditation could be at risk following city council's decision to send three elephants to a California animal sanctua...

Toronto Zoo Keepers Fight to Keep Elephants

CBC | Posted 01.09.2012 | Canada

The elephant keepers at the Toronto Zoo want city council to revoke its decision to send the zoo's elephants to a California sanctuary. ...

Zoo Elephants Deserve a Second Lease on Life

Camille Labchuk | Posted 12.27.2011 | Canada
Camille Labchuk

The ethical dimension of confining elephants in zoos has generated a great deal of debate in Canada. Elephants are intelligent, sensitive creatures whose physical, psychological and emotional needs simply cannot be met in zoos. Releasing them to sanctuaries is the best way to express our compassion for animals.

Bob Barker Wins, Toronto Loses Its Elephants

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.25.2011 | Canada

TORONTO - With sad hearts, staff at the Toronto Zoo are starting the long process of preparing three aging elephants for a move to a California sanctu...

Second Polar Bear Cub Dies

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.13.2011 | Canada

TORONTO - Officials at the Toronto Zoo say a second polar bear cub has died of injuries inflicted by its mother.A 10-year-old polar bear named Aurora ...

Polar Bear Cubs Rejected By Mother At Toronto Zoo

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.12.2011 | Canada

TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo says staff are working to save two surviving polar bear cubs that have been rejected by their mother.The zoo says a 10-year-...

Toronto Zoo For Sale

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.27.2011 | Canada

TORONTO - Toronto city councillors voted on dozens of proposed service cuts Tuesday after weeks of meetings, debates and protests.Faced with a massive...

Buyers Eyeing Toronto Zoo, Says Mayor Rob Ford

CBC | Posted 11.15.2011 | Canada Politics

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says "people are knocking on my door" trying to buy the city's marquee zoo and theatres. The newly-ele...