PooPrints Canada has set up shop at the Affinity in the 2200 block of Douglas Road. Their mission: to collect a DNA sample from every dog in the building.

Each dog poop bag has to be cut open by hand, the contents liquefied and put straight into the city's sewage treatment plant.

Dartmouth's Lake Banook and Lake MicMac were identified in a pollution control study released earlier this year as having high levels of canine E. coli.

Dozens of bags full of dog excrement are being tossed on a building rooftop in North Vancouver.

“While most owners are responsible and pick up after their pets, it only takes a handful to cause a problem,” says Ian Wilson, Park Services Manager.

The mayor of Coquitlam is sounding off about irresponsible dog owners who are choosing to sling their dogs' excrement versus disposing it in the garbage.