On June 13, 2020 a shipment of 500 puppies arrived at the Toronto Pearson Airport from the Ukraine, 38 were dead. Not only are the breeders themselves responsible for this …
Bill 156: Our Electoral System is the Real Ag-gag.
Bill 156, Security from Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act, is Ontario’s response to ongoing undercover investigations and increasing civil disobedience tactics by animal activists that have resulted in the …
Remembering Regan Russell
It has been a week since Regan Russell died so tragically. It has been the first time I have been able to put pen to paper in her memory. We …
Bill 156: Ontario Votes to Hide Animal Cruelty.
BREAKING: Ontario has voted to hide animal cruelty on farms. The Ontario Progressive Conservative Government has just passed Bill 156: The Security from Trespass and Food Safety Act, without amendments …
A Preventable Tragedy: Protecting Animals From Barn Fires is the Least our Government Can Do.
Did you know that there are no federal or provincial laws to protect animals from barn fires in Canada? Despite the enormity of modern barns that house animals such as …
Double-Crested Cormorants are not Political Weapons
It’s time to protect all migratory birds, including cormorants! For more than 14 years, environmental and animal protection groups including Animal Alliance of Canada, Animal Protection Party of Canada, Born …
The Great Fall of Animal-Use Industries.
Animal-use industries are collapsing amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. All of a sudden some of Canada’s longest standing and prolific animal exploitive industries are finding themselves vulnerable to the economic …
A reply to “Why a Blanket Ban on Wildlife Trade Would Not Be the Right Response”
By Barry Kent MacKay, General Manager As I sit in my home office, dutifully socially isolated from the rest of humanity, I find myself growing weary of the “deniers”. And …
World Week for Animals in Labs: Humans are not the only victims of COVID-19
It is World Week for Animals in Laboratories and with the pandemic these animals need us more now than ever.
The ‘Return’ of Wildlife.
As COVID-19 protocols continue to keep people indoors for essential social distancing, there have been an abundance of sightings of wildlife beginning their ‘return’ to humanized geographies. Although the viral …