-- MONTREAL -- Montreal animal welfare officials rescued 93 rats and three rabbits earlier this week from a woman the shelter described as a "hoarder," a psychiatric term for people who obsessively collect animals and keep them in squalid conditions.Whether it's Tamil Tiger flash mobs shutting down Toronto... or "Aboriginal warriors" taking over border crossing points... it seems we've pretty much given up really trying to maintain any sort of social cohesion.
But the shelter had to leave behind at least 150 other critters — lizards, hedgehogs, dogs, cats and "too many rats to count" — because the hoarder refused to surrender.
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RELATED: Hmmm... not everybody's a softie...
The YWCA is evicting a tenant who complained publicly about assault, death threats, drugs and alleged prostitution in a housing residence run by the agency.The Y gets how many taxpayer dollars every year?
Patricia Huculak, a 39-year-old mother of two living in the YWCA's Riverdale apartment for battered women, received an eviction notice Wednesday afternoon that gives her until Aug. 31 to move out.
Hey... just askin'.
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LAST WORD: Bright lights, big city...
..."you don't pass my kid, I'll kill ya"...
Sondergaard wouldn't say what connection the accused women have to the school, so as not to identify students. He said the issue that allegedly motivated the threats involved three staff members and was "trivial" in nature.*
Police estimate at least 150 letters were mailed out in the second incident and around 200 in the third.
Rafat Parsaei, 45, and Carole Tovell, 67, both of Toronto, and Linda Pitney, 62, of Shelburne, were each charged with six counts of threatening death and four counts of intimidation. Tovell was also charged with one count of criminal harassment.
