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Scott Stinson: Despite attacks, this Ontario city expects its residents to coexist with coyotes
Two attacks inside a week in Markham suggest that the hands-off approach has consequences
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It is springtime in the greater Toronto area, which means it’s coyote hunting season.
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To be clear, it is the coyotes that are doing the hunting. Not us.
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On Sunday evening, a young girl was bitten in the head by a coyote in a parkette in the middle of a residential area in Markham. Her injuries weren’t serious, but it was the second time in a week that someone had been bitten by a coyote in the neighbourhood. The previous victim, a 16-year-old girl, was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
This feels, as a resident of Markham, a little alarming. And perhaps an indication that the general attitude from authorities over the last few years toward coyotes, which has been to welcome them as though they were furry citizens, with all the rights that entails, has been too charitable.
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