Max, a nine-year-old Yellow Lab, provided support to a nine-year-old girl as she testified at the trial earlier this month, marking the therapy dog's first time in B.C. Supreme Court.
The zoo says one of its two adult female polar bears, Aurora, gave birth to the two cubs on Nov. 11.
The B.C. government's priorities for shelter funding are being questioned after the death of a homeless man on the Sunshine Coast.
Robert Cote is a vice-president of legal affairs at the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec and has been suspended with pay.
In a 6-3 split decision, the court ruled that the arguments in favour of bilingual legislation brought forward by two appellants were inconsistent with the historical documents they relied on.
In a brief statement, the company said it shut down the stores as part of a review of how they were performing.