Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Or they could have just let this beautiful fish live.
Ice fishing has always struck me as so cruel. The fishes don’t even get one season where they aren’t being terrorized by trophy hunting (which is what this is).
Ice fishing has always struck me as so cruel. The fishes don’t even get one season where they aren’t being terrorized by trophy hunting (which is what this is).
“Millions of taxpayers’ dollars were poured down the drain, wasted to massacre these sensitive, intelligent animals who, by that point, were entirely healthy." — @camillelabchuk.bsky.social, executive director of Animal Justice
#BCostrichfarm
Today we learned the feds spent $6.8M to kill the ostriches. This includes $2.3M in staff time & $1.3M to lawyers. To kill HEALTHY birds.
Imagine how many animals could have been helped if the feds simply gave this cash to farmed animal sanctuaries.
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Fishing is the largest massacre of wildlife anywhere on our planet, and fishing gear is the largest contributor to plastic pollution in the oceans. Meanwhile fish farms are horribly cruel and polluting.
No one should be eating more fishes.
Thank you so much for your advocacy. It's really frustrating to get so little response. Our legislators need to do better!
I was up early to join David Common on CBC's Metro Morning! We talked about Ontario's move to ban cosmetic surgeries on pets like cat declawing, ear cropping, and debarking. Good news, but slicing off dogs' tails should also be banned.
Have your say: www.regulatoryregistry.gov.on.ca/proposal/52973
It is such a puzzle that many politicians are so slow to take up better legal protections for animals. Polls consistently show that the public demands better than unregulated factory farms, shoddy roadside zoos, and brutal experiments on animals!
Canadians care, yet this issue never makes it onto the political agenda
#Opinion by @lindamcquaig.bsky.social
We are so close to the Star Trek promise of a universal translator!
I'm grateful to @lindamcquaig.bsky.social for reminding us of the animals that many forget. Factory farms are almost completely unregulated in Canada and are free to abuse animals in horrible ways. In 2026, let's change this.
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“The province has very extensive authority under the PAWS Act to go in & care for the whales in the short term & protect them from being euthanized by Marineland.”
— @camillelabchuk.bsky.social, executive director of Animal Justice
#OnPoli
After decades of profiting from cruelty, Marineland is threatening to kill its 30 remaining whales 💔 It's time for Ontario to step in to protect the whales & send Marineland the bill!
@camillelabchuk.bsky.social: “Marineland has a moral obligation to fund the future care of these animals.” ⬇️
NEW op-ed from our ED @camillelabchuk.bsky.social: St. Joseph’s Hospital is ending dog experiments after our exposé. Premier Doug Ford has promised new laws to ban dog & cat experiments—but we also need federal leadership & funding for #CrueltyFree alternatives.
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“It is 2025, but these completely preventable killings continue to happen. It’s absurd that Stampede organizers permit this brutal spectacle to continue where horses are doomed to die nearly every year.” — @camillelabchuk.bsky.social, ED at Animal Justice
In Ontario, you don't even need a license to operate a zoo🤯
“If I wanted to open up a zoo in my backyard, fill it with dangerous, exotic animals who don’t do well in captivity… I would be perfectly able to do that." — @camillelabchuk.bsky.social, Animal Justice ED
Thanks, Arno!
Today @animal-justice.bsky.social is at the Ontario Court of Appeal defending our victory over the province’s ag gag law. The government is trying desperately to reinstate their ban on undercover videos from farms. Wish us luck! @jesslsr.bsky.social
Free at last! Animal Justice’s executive director, @camillelabchuk.bsky.social, recently took part in a groundbreaking moment as The Beagle Alliance facilitated the release of 2 beagles from a Canadian research lab. Now, for the first time, they’re experiencing freedom 🐾💙
No one has done more to harm the legal interests of animals than Senator Plett. He relentlessly opposed every single bill to make life slightly better for animals who are miserably suffering in captivity or being slaughtered. Today is a happy day for animals & I look forward to progress soon!
Today Sen. Don Plett turns 75 & retires—ending a decade of Senate obstruction for animal bills.
He nearly killed Canada's whale & dolphin captivity ban. He DID kill the live horse export ban by running out the clock. Same for ape/elephant captivity.
#DonPlettLiberationDay
