Calgary City Council has filed a petition with the Queen’s Bank Court for dogs involved in a deadly dog attack on June 5 to be euthanized in a humane manner.
The request, which was filed under the Dangerous Dogs Act, is related to the attack that killed 86-year-old Betty Ann Williams.
The city said community peacekeepers captured the three dogs involved in the attack and that the animals remain in custody pending the outcome of the Dangerous Dogs Act.
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In a statement Thursday afternoon, Calgary City Council said the request only deals with the disposition of dogs and asks the court to order that the dogs involved be humanly slaughtered.
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The Calgary police service and regulations are still investigating the incident. More information will be given when the investigations are completed.
Thursday’s development comes after Mayor Jyoti Gondek announced the city will conduct its own investigation into the deadly incident.
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Alberta Health Services conducted an internal review of the dog’s attack response and concluded that the consolidation of the EMS dispatch system did not affect response time.
It was previously reported that paramedics took about 30 minutes to arrive, but an initial AHS assessment suggested the call was not prioritized as a life-threatening call.
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Gondek said earlier that he is not buying claims from Health Minister Jason Copping that the incident was not a malfunction of the EMS shipping system.
He reiterated statements from previous councils that consolidating the sending of EMS to a provincial system “will not work”.
“The system is broken,” the mayor said.
“The end result is that longer response times and unnecessary additional steps in the process of reporting a complex emergency drastically affect patient outcomes.”
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5:27 Record with the Mayor of Calgary, Jyoti Gondek Record with the Mayor of Calgary Jyoti Gondek – June 10, 2022
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