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Podcast: CANADALAND
Episode: Marineland Guilty Under Animal Cruelty Laws. Why is it Still Open?
Description: Part family-owned theme park and part roadside zoo, Marineland was once the kind of place where you could get kissed by an orca and feed corn pops to bears.But then it kept being that kind of place, well into this century, and the problems piled up: newspaper exposés, official investigations, a federal law designed to end the captivity of whales and dolphins once and for all. Yet the Niagara Falls mainstay would defiantly reopen year after year. Until this year. Marineland still welcomes visitors, but, like a dead mall, nearly everything in...