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NEWARK, N.J. – When an emaciated pit bull found at the bottom of a trash chute in New Jersey was rushed to a veterinary emergency room last month, doctors there thought he would be dead within the hour. Instead, the scrappy pup, nicknamed Patrick, has defied the odds and is getting stronger by the day. "He is a tremendous fighter," said Dr. Thomas Scavelli, the director and founder of the Garden State Veterinary Specialists, the pet hospital in Tinton Falls where Patrick is being treated. "There are very few animals, or any life form, that could have gone through and...

Vancouver's visible minority population is on track to become the majority over the next two decades. visible minority groups are growing rapidly and will account for 59 per cent of the metro region's total population by 2031, up from a current figure of about 40 per cent. Immigration — led by China and South Asia — is a leading factor in the changing demographic picture. But many visible minorities will also be the children or grandchildren of immigrants. Indeed, of the estimated two million visible minorities living in the region in 20 years' time, one in three will be Canadian-born......

Expect to see more minarets punctuating our West Coast skyline in decades to come. Muslims are on target to make up half of the country's expanding non-Christian religious population by 2031. Metro Vancouver will be home to more than 230,000 Muslims within two decades, compared to 72,000 now. The projected rapid growth of Islam in Canada might paint a controversial scenario for some people. -- that Europe will be almost dominated by Muslims by 2040, with some fear-mongers claiming the continent should be renamed "Eurabia." Such worries -- that European Christianity is on the defensive and that waves of Muslim...