Bill Bruce
Bill Bruce joined the City of Calgary in 1981. In 2000 he became Director of Animal and Bylaw Services Bill had a vision of moving the focus from enforcement to a broader goal of achieving and maintaining compliance to the City’s bylaws, The areas of priority have been activities that effect public health and safety, The focus was to reduce the number or aggressive incidents involving dogs, increase the return to owner rates for both dogs and cats and work towards becoming a zero kill municipality. Bill is now retired but is called upon to provide support to organizations such as the caacQ
Toni Andréa Belschner
An attorney and a mediator who has been involved in animal issues for over 20 years.
Has been a member of several boards of administration for many non-profit organizations.
Is interested in ethics, moral dilemmas and how they can be reconciled in an ever-evolving world.
Darlene Cheechoo
Currently, Ms. Cheechoo is the Chief of the Cree Nation of Waskaganish.
Prior to this role, Darlene was the Chairperson/President of the Board of Compensation/CREECCO.
She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ottawa; Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University; Common Law and Civil Law from the University of Ottawa and her Masters of Law at SWU in California.