Dogs 'humanely sacrificed' at private lab in Toronto area

The vast majority of Canada’s leading university research labs have stopped using dogs as test subjects in scientific research — a practice that Ontario Premier Doug Ford has promised to ban with forthcoming legislation.

But pharmaceutical testing on dogs continues in lesser-known, often private research firms, including a large Scarborough research facility where the animals undergo sometimes invasive — and fatal — experimentation.

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Nucro-Technics Inc., which bills itself as Canada’s largest contract research organization (CRO), conducts studies using dogs — including heart research — in a 60,000-square-foot facility with more than 170 scientific support personnel involved in chemistry, microbiology and toxicology testing.

The company performs “cardiopulmonary safety