Why was Primarily Primates less ready for the Texas freeze than a pizza parlor? SAN ANTONIO, Texas––“After 4 days without power, we finally have electricity back at the sanctuary!” Primarily Primates posted on the morning of February 19, 2021. “Due to the tenuous situation here in Texas,” the posting added, “we will be using […]
Pig transport truck kills animal advocate Regan Russell outside slaughterhouse
Accident reprises 1995 death of British protester Jill Phipps BURLINGTON, Ontario––Regan Russell, 65, of Hamilton, Ontario, was on June 19, 2020 crushed to death by an 18-wheel livestock transport truck delivering pigs to slaughter at Fearman’s Pork Inc., the largest and oldest slaughterhouse in Ontario. A local landmark since 1852, and the scene of […]
Ontario allows hunters to kill 50 cormorants a day
“The worst wild game management decision in Canadian history” by Barry Kent MacKay Artist & naturalist: www.barrykentmackay.ca Director of Canadian & Special ProgramsBorn Free Doug Ford, the recently elected prime minister of Ontario, who at one time claimed to be an ethical vegetarian, has just proposed what I believe is the single worst wild […]
What’s on the menu? Mice & rats, frozen or live
South African bust sheds light on a dirty business KLOOF, South Africa––Six hundred dead rodents plus dying rats, rabbits and mice, left unfed for days, on December 20, 2016 brought home to the Kloof & Highway SPCA branch of the National SPCA of South Africa what spokesperson Sue Noakes termed “the stark reality of […]
Will new Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau be “Justin other bad guy” for animals?
Stephen Harper government, notorious for defense of Atlantic Canada seal hunt, ousted after 10 years OTTAWA, VANCOUVER––“The reign of the Stephen Harper government has collapsed,” exulted Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals executive director Lesley Fox on October 20, 2015, the morning after Harper’s 10-year Conservative Party of Canada regime collapsed in the 2015 […]
Anne Doncaster, 76, founder or cofounder of four noted animal advocacy organizations
Anne Doncaster, 76, founder or cofounder of four noted animal advocacy organizations, died of cancer on April 19, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario. Born Anne Procter, in 1962 she married former Mississauga Board of Trade president David Doncaster, who survives her, and raised three daughters before becoming involved in animal advocacy. Recalled Mississauga.com, “Anne Doncaster attended […]