Good Morning All.. and may it truly be a good morning for Francesca and Brindi!

Francesca, may God be with you and Brindi and may all the hopes, prayers and petitions of your tens of thousands of supporters all around this world move the hearts and minds of the judge, the prosecution, the city officials and the uglies to compassion, justice and loving kindness.

Message to the Premier of Nova Scotia & Ombudsman for the Province of Nova Scotia (copied to Canadian Prime Minister):
“Something Stinks in the Province of Nova Scotia”

Dear Sirs,
Please will you take to heart the tens of thousands of voices pleading for mercy for poor Brindi dog, voices from the constituents of Halifax, ...residents of Nova Scotia, citizens of Canada and the world.

Mayor Kelly point blank refuses to exercise his authority as mayor, to order the withdrawal of charges against Ms Rogier, or to instruct the private attorneys the city has retained, using tax payers money in its relentless pursuit of a death order against this already shockingly abused dog illegally incarcerated on death row for more than 19 months, to withdraw the city's prosecution case or to settle for an admission of guilt fine and to agree that Brindi be allowed to go home to her long suffering, emotionally and financially devastated owner. Mayor Kelly also claims that it would be illegal for him to intervene in the jurisdiction of the courts, but he and his council have had no problem with contravening the law by holding onto a private citizen’s property for 16 months longer than the 3 months allowed by law!

I would also like to question what kind of system keeps a dog alive in the most horrible conditions for 20 months, just to seek a Euthanasia Order? During her time on death row, Brindi has passed several training tests, as well as tests by 3 Animal Behaviorists who claim the dog is friendly, sociable and not a danger to society, so why still the insistence on euthanasia? I would also like to comment that during these dreadful 19 months, which amount to a punitive sentence for both dog and owner in themselves, Ms. Francesca Rogier has also been obliged to pay a fee of $25.00 A DAY for the “board” of her dog Brindi at the Halifax SPCA, been denied visitation rights for the privilege, except for a few recent supervised 30 minutes a week, and spent thousands of her own dollars, trying to save her dog from the city. Ms. Rogier has therefore ‘paid’ 100 times more money in fines than any case of its kind in the history of Halifax, Nova Scotia or probably Canada for that matter. Has this financial cost to her, the emotional cost of almost 2 years spent trying to have her dog returned home, not ‘lesson’ enough for the ‘crimes’ she has been found guilty of, not forgetting that her dog’s health and life expectancy (if the city doesn’t succeed in getting its ‘kill’ order) has forever been compromised by the devastating effects of being locked up for all this time?

Please will you now intervene in this case at the very 11th hour, on behalf of Brindi, Francesca and their multitudes of supporters across the globe and make this mayor see reason, exercise compassion and behave as any decent, honorable public official would, who understood the concept of good governance and being responsible and answerable to the people who voted him into office?
With grateful thanks,

Trish Malkoff,
Johannesburg,
South Africa

Ombudsman: <ombudsman@gov.ns.ca>
Prime Minister: <pm@pm.gc.ca>
Everyone should also email their own letters

Bravo Viktor! This goes to the very heart of the matter in a nutshell!

It was the City of Halifax that laid the charges against Ms Rougier in the first place, after losing their first attempt in the Supreme Court to kill Brindi, and therefore the City of Halifax, which brought this second case to court.

We all know from your awesome website, that people from around the world have been inundating the mayor’s office with calls, emails, faxes & petitions calling for the mayor to do the right and honorable thing, which is to return Brindi to her home. But his office has always replied with the same lame excuse, that the mayor has no jurisdiction over the courts.

However, as the Mayor of Halifax, he does have jurisdiction over his own city council, to instruct the withdrawal of the charges against Ms Rogier and in so doing, to strike the case from court. The question everyone should be asking him now, the question his councilors and his legal team should be asking him, the question he should be asking himself, is when is he going to align himself with the voices of his constituents, the voices of outraged animal lovers from across Canada and throughout the world, and exercise his authority to do so, and if not, why not?

If he persists with the same worn-out, lame excuse that to intervene would be breaking the law, then he should be asked why he has found it so very easy not to intervene whilst the City of Halifax has clearly broken the property laws by holding onto a constituent’s private property for 19 months to date, 16 months longer than the 3 months allowed by the law? I for one intend to call his office again today to ask these very questions, again!

Viktor, all of Brindi’s supporters owe you a debt of utmost thanks for the tireless work you have done for her and Francesca and we will win yet. Good people, please do what Viktor asks of you this weekend and if you live in Halifax, try to be at the court on the 9th of March to support Francesca. Bless everyone who has given of themselves to this cause.

not only cameras, all the brindi supporters in canada who can make it there, to carry out sentence on the mayor if necessary!

As mayor, the miserable little sob has jurisdiction over the city of Halifax to withdraw the charges against Francesca Rogier and drop the court case

I wish everyone would go to Brindi's owner's Blog Page http://freebrindi.blogspot.com/ and read her latest post for March 3rd about the real story behind the Nova Scotia SPCA's treatment of Brindi.. and weep! It's a true horror story to put it mildly. And now their mission is to ask the judge in the upcoming court case not to grant the City of Halifax's request to have Brindi euthanased, but instead to re-home her, with anyone, other than her beloved owner, Francesca Rogier, who has fought so long and so hard, at such great expense, to save and be reunited with her precious child!

The City of Halifax and the NS SPCA must be stopped and Brindi must be given back to Francesca now!
Contact:
Mayor Peter Kelly:
kellyp@halifax.ca
phone: +902-490-4010
fax: +902-490-4012

Kristin Williams NS SPCA
director@spcans.ca
phone +902-835-4798
fax: +902-468-9761

Too true Regina, but staff members at the SPCA should suffer the same fate as the mayor - there was nothing stopping them allowing plentiful precious time for Francesca with Brindi, or using just a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of dollars their contract with the City of Halifax was worth to them, by improving Brindi's jail cell. They were in complete cahoots with the mayor and the city, acting out of pure spite and look where it's gotten them, they've lost their precious contract and their double-crossing partners in crime are now trying to offload the whole nasty mess onto the SPCA. What goes around comes around and the mayor can look forward to losing all his support and his entire political career just as swiftly.

Oh and another thing, the mayor and the city are not averse to breaking the law themselves when it comes to pursuing their own goals, they ignored the property laws against keeping someone's property more than 3 months by keeping Brindi for 19 months to date.

I totally agree and the mayor is the biggest coward of all - as the mayor of the city of Halifax, which took the case to court in the 2nd place, after they lost once in the Supreme Court, Peter Kelly has the authority to withdraw the case any time he wants to - he obviously doesn't want to, 'cause he's gunning for the owner!

Anyone who calls the mayor's office (and everyone should) and gets fed the same line of bullcrap from his pa that the mayor can do nothing now that case is in the hands of the courts, can simply point out that it is the City of Halifax that brought this case to court, and as the mayor of the City of Halifax, Peter Kelly has the authority and the power to withdraw the case any time he chooses to do so.