Saving Dinah Directed by Stephen Best Starring Amanda Langille, Craig Martin, and Paul James Saunders. 90 minutes. $1.99 from Amazon Prime Video (rental) or $4.99 to purchase. Produced by the Animal Alliance of Canada. Reviewed by Merritt & Beth Clifton. Bill Sikes, arch-villain of the 1838 Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, might justly be called one of […]
“Cargo cult” politics make caribou the bison of the Canadian North
Far North learns the hard way that climate & geography can’t prevent effects of global warming EDMONTON––Neither cold and wind, short summers and seemingly endless winter, voracious summer mosquitoes and blackflies, nor the distance from urban civilization present the harshest of the many harsh realities currently facing the Canadian Far North. Rather, the Far […]
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 […]