SIDNEY, BC – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, has tabled the first Green Party bill:  Bill C-417 An Act to amend the Fish Inspection Act and the Consumer Packaging and Labelling …

MONTREAL — They are white and fluffy, have round, black eyes and long eyelashes, and make adorable squirmy noises when touched. They are two new robotic baby seals that two senior care centres in Montreal bought from Japan for $6,000 each. And they’ve provoked outrage from seal hunters in Quebec’s Magdalen Islands. The province’s health [...]

 
A fad is haunting Canada; the fad of Canada Goose jackets. Many of these jackets feature coyote fur-trimmed hoods. But a movement is haunting Canada Goose, Inc.; the anti-fur, pro-animal rights movement. Fads come and go. The animal rights movem…

Between February 23 and 24, 2012, Animal Place and Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary co-ordinated the largest farm animal rescue in California history. More than 4,400 hens were pulled from A&L Poultry in Turlock, California after the owner left the he…

I have always said that if I could be an animal, I’d choose a dolphin. Really, the similarities are quite obvious: my love of swimming, my chatty, personable nature, my sleek, grey skin. Ok, maybe not that last one. Anyways, naturally it is very good news that if I were a dolphin, some people would [...]

Animal Equality has carried out a ground-breaking two-month undercover investigation on a “Quality Assured” (Red Tractor) farm in Britain. Over 200 hours of footage and recorded conversations, and more 300 photos provide a shocking insight into the Bri…

Dear Readers; Pam Anderson and her PETA pals are at it again. This time they tried to have a bunch of whales declared as ‘human’ because they were  being held in ‘slavery’ at Seaworld! —————————————- By Lauren Steussy A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to give killer whales at SeaWorld constitutional [...]

Listen to an interview with Paul York, an organizer with the Animal Rights Club at the University of Toronto
From the event page:
The University of Toronto is the site of roughly 90,000 unnecessary animal death per year, for the purposes of research an…

The Canadian commercial seal hunt is a disgrace to Canada. It’s time to end the annual slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups.

Dear Readers; If you ever had any doubt that Pam Anderson and her friends at PETA  were NUTS, then this should clear up any confusion in a hurry! ——————————————————— An animal rights group wants Illinois to install highway monuments in memory of cattle killed when trucks hauling them flipped in two separate wrecks. People for [...]

Discover the true meaning of Christmas with Toronto Pig Save this Christmas Day. TPS Choir sings adapted Christmas Carols at Quality Meat Packers’ unloading area at 677 Wellington St. West on Sunday, December 25, 2011.For more information, please visit…

* Please note there is some swearing in this video.
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The idea that feminists “should” or “should not” be anything is contentious. Of course when one says you “should” be anything, we are bound to become defensive.
The idea that feminists “should” be vegetarian, though, is, I’ve recently discovered, so…

While some argue that feminism is inextricably linked to speciesism and, therefore, vegetarianism or veganism, others don’t see that connection as necessary.
For some feminists who are also vegans, feminists who consume animal products are hypocritic…

Toronto Pig Save activists bear witness and protest at what they refer to as the “Un-Royal” Agricultural Winter Fair.
On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, “The Market Lamb and Market Kid Auction” included the sale of #200 lamb, who was born less than two mont…

Toronto Pig Save activists bear witness and protest at what they refer to as the “Un-Royal” Agricultural Winter Fair.
On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, “The Market Lamb and Market Kid Auction” included the sale of #200 lamb, who was born less than two mo…

Dear Readers;  Keepers at a Canada zoo have decided to split two male penguins amid fears they are gay. Now before all the P.C. crowd gets their bustle in a hustle, let me explain that they need the penguins to reproduce, and then they can go back to doing what they like to do. Of [...]

With all the protests and riots lately, your ever helpful, and ever hopeful scribe, has come up with the perfect way to have a protest movement here in the twenty first century! Rather than have all these different marches and sit-ins and demonstrations and movements and causes and rallies and gatherings that take place all [...]

On a recent trip to Toronto, Canada to celebrate World Animal Day with Jill Robinson, Founder and CEO of Animals Asia I first went to a protest organized by Toronto Pig Save, a group founded by Anita Krajnc. This wonderful grassroots organization is ma…

Liz Marshall, the director of Water on the Table, is working with photographer Jo-Anne McArthur on a new cross-platform documentary about the price animals pay as subjugated, commodified and oppressed beings in the human-controlled global industrial ca…