Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

R. Brassard Ⓥ

@veganrick.bsky.social

1K followers 1.1K following 880 posts

No one should be ashamed of not being a #Vegan... One should only be ashamed if you have seen the crimes against animals, and still you are not a #Vegan... #AnimalRights #AnimalWelfare #EndVivisection #EndAnimalTesting #AnimalRescue #EndFactoryFarming

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · Oct 18

Time to change your life. Time to change the world.
#uspoli #cdnpoli #auspol #nzpol #EU #UK #Food #Health #Water #Environment #ClimateCrisis #NotOldMacDonaldsFarm #Meat #AnimalWelfare #AnimalCruelty #AnimalRights #AnimalRescue #GoVegan #Vegan #Plantbased #Education

www.dominionmovement.com/watch

Watch Dominion (2018) - full documentary - Dominion Movement - Animal rights documentary DOMINION | We Will Rise Together

Watch the 2018 Australian documentary Dominion for free.

www.dominionmovement.com

17 42

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 28m

Ontario’s #Bill5 threatens the province's polar bears, says environmental group

There are between 800 and 1,000 wild polar bears in #Ontario

#Canada 🇨🇦 #PolarBears #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #AnimalWelfare #DougFord #Wildlife #EndangeredSpeciesAct #AnimalRights #AnimalLaw

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

There are around 25,000 polar bears in Canada, which represents 60 per cent of the world population for the species. (Elisha Dacey/CBC)

The Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat is the largest facility of its kind dedicated solely to polar bears. (Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat)

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 48m

#IUCN upholds long-tailed macaques’ endangered status after complaint

#LongTailedMacaques #EndangeredSpecies #AnimalTesting #Wildlife #AnimalResearch #Biomedical #USpoli #Cdnpoli #EU #UK #Auspol #AnimalLaw #Cambodia #Vietnam #Laos #MonkeyTrade #AnimalRights

news.mongabay.com/2025/10/iucn...

Monkey poaching has reportedly declined in Cambodia as the populations and habitats of long-tailed macaques are believed to have declined in recent years. Images supplied by source.

Inspections at Brussels Airport found long-tailed macaques exported from Vietnam. Image supplied by Animal Rights BE.

Reporters visited a long-tailed macaque breeding facility in Pursat province. The farm is owned by Vanny Bio, one of the companies indicted by U.S. federal prosecutors. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Using publicly available data, Mongabay was able to map out many of the suspected long-tailed macaque farms across Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, as well as an established smuggling point in Thailand. Image by Andrés Alegría / Mongabay.

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 2h

Marineland’s scandalous decline

Tracking Marineland’s controversial journey and what could happen to their remaining 30 beluga whales. 🎙️🎧🔊

#Marineland #Belugas #NiagaraFalls #Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #AnimalWelfare #Marinelife #Wildlife #AnimalRights #Whales

www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

Marineland’s scandalous decline | CBC Radio

Tracking Marineland’s controversial journey and what could happen to their remaining 30 beluga whales.

www.cbc.ca

1 1

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 3h

#Halloween #Wildlife #Birds #Pets #Animals #Environment #Nature #AnimalWelfare #Cdnpoli #USpoli

The Fur-Bearers @thefurbearers.bsky.social · 1d

Carving pumpkins, dressing up, and heading out for candy are Halloween traditions – but did you know some of them could put local wildlife at risk? Here are a few simple ways that you can ensure your Halloween celebrations are fun and safe for everyone in your neighbourhood: buff.ly/C42LGPF

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 4h

#Marineland #Belugas #NiagaraFalls #Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #Marinelife #Wildlife #AnimalWelfare #AnimalCruelty #DougFord #PAWSAct #AnimalRights

Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 6h

Killing this many belugas at once, in close proximity to each other, could be illegal animal cruelty.

The survivors deserve safety, proper care, & a future free from suffering, with as many as possible sent to seaside sanctuaries!

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Stop Marineland from Killing 30 Belugas!

Marineland is threatening to kill 30 beluga whales unless the government gives in to its demands. Urge Ontario to act now.

action.animaljustice.ca

3 2

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 4h

#Marineland #Belugas #NiagaraFalls #Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #Marinelife #Wildlife #AnimalWelfare #AnimalCruelty #DougFord #PAWSAct #AnimalRights

Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 6h

Animal Justice has filed a complaint with Niagara Police calling for action to prevent #Marineland from mass-killing all 30 surviving beluga whales.

The complaint was submitted along with a letter from marine mammal scientists to the govt, warning that killing belugas en masse would cause distress.

1 2 3

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 4h

#USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #USleg #AnimalLaw #FreeWebinar #Public #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights

Animal Legal Defense Fund @animallegaldefense.bsky.social · 6h

The Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Legislative Affairs team has been busy fighting for animals in Congress and across the states. 🐾 Join our free webinar to hear updates, celebrate wins, and see what’s next. ⚖️ aldf.org/article/webi...

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 18h

#Gusta Capitalizes on #YvesVeggieCuisine Shutdown to Expand Product Line

#Quebec #Canada 🇨🇦 #Plantbased #Vegan #Health #Food #Business #Grocery #CrueltyFree
#Cdnpoli

vegconomist.com/company-news...

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 1d

Canada imported nearly 1,800 endangered wild-caught monkeys for research, sparking calls for a ban

#Canada 🇨🇦 #Macaques #AnimalTesting #Cdnpoli #AnimalCruelty #Wildlife #Monkeys #SkyTaxi #AnimalResearch #IUCN #CITES #Cambodia #Mauritius #AnimalRights

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

A long-tailed macaque kept for use in clinical research, at the National Primate Research Center in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2020. Nearly 1,800 wild-caught macaques from Mauritius and Cambodia were imported to Canada between 2021 and 2023.
Sakchai Lalit/The Associated Press

1 1

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 1d

Beluga trainer fired by #Marineland speaks out

#NiagaraFalls #Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #Belugas #AnimalCruelty #Whales #Cetaceans #Marinelife #AnimalWelfare #ONpoli #AnimalLaw #PAWSAct #AnimalRights #Wildlife

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

www.ctvnews.ca

1 1

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 1d

Fired #Marineland beluga trainer speaks out on dangerous conditions for animals at park 🎥

#NiagaraFalls #Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #Belugas #Whales #Cetaceans #AnimalCruelty #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #PAWSAct

globalnews.ca/video/114771...

globalnews.ca

1 3

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 1d

French MPs Submit Proposal Calling for the End of Caged Farming for Laying Hens in the EU

#France 🇳🇱 #EU 🇪🇺 #BatteryCages #Hens #Eggs #EndTheCageAge #FactoryFarming #Food #Chickens #AnimalLaw #AnimalWelfare #Animals #AnimalRights #Farming #AnimalAg

vegconomist.com/politics-law...

Hens in a battery cage
©Compassion in World Farming

1 4

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 1d

Might be? 🧐

#UniversityofMichigan study finds large animal farms might be a significant source of air pollution

#USA 🇺🇸 #Cows #Pigs #CAFOs #Beef #Dairy #Pollution #Air #Water #FactoryFarming #Pork #Meat #Health #HealthInsurance #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #Environment
www.wpr.org/news/michiga...

Cows are seen at a concentrated animal feeding operation in St. Croix County, Wis., on June 11, 2024. (Ben Brewer for Wisconsin Watch)

Hogs feed in a pen in a concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, on the Gary Sovereign farm, in Lawler, Iowa on Oct. 31, 2018. Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 2d

#SouthernRightWhales are having fewer calves: what this says about ocean health

#RightWhales #Marinelife #Cetaceans #Climate #GlobalWarming #Whales #Ecosystem #Australia #SouthAfrica #SouthAmerica #Wildlife #NewZealand #Oceans #MarineLife

theconversation.com/southern-rig...

Researchers observing a southern right whale mother and calf. Whale Research Unit, University of Pretoria, Author provided (no reuse)

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 2d

Southern resident killer whales show signs of slow decline toward disappearance

Scarce food sources and pollutants from tankers are driving the decline, says researcher

#BC #Canada 🇨🇦 #Orcas
#Washington #USA 🇺🇸
#Whales #Cetaceans #Blackfish #Marinelife #Cdnpoli #USpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A whale is pictured leaping out of the ocean
An orca named J47 breaches in this Sept. 23, 2025 handout photo. A survey found the number of endangered southern resident killer whales off the coast of B.C. is plateauing and could eventually dwindle. (THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Two orcas are peeking out of the waves.
Orcas named J45 and L116 swim in this Jan. 23, 2025 handout photo. ( Center for Whale Research/Canadian Press

An orca named L125 breaches in this Sept. 8, 2025 handout photo. (Center for Whale Research/Canadian Press)

2 2

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 2d

#GovernmentOfCanada + #FurFarming = 🙈🙉🙊

In Search of Numbers: The Gaps in Fur Farming Data

#StatisticsCanada #Wildlife #AnimalCruelty #AnimalWelfare #Cdnpoli #AnimalRights #BCpoli #ABpoli #SKpoli #MBpoli #ONpoli #polQc #NBpoli #NSpoli #PEIpoli #NLpoli #Canada 🇨🇦

thefurbearers.com/blog/in-sear...

Foxes, mink, and other wildlife are kept in wire-bottom cages to be killed solely for their fur on Canadian fur farms, like this one in Quebec.
Photo by WeAnimals

3 3

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 2d

Wolves have returned to #Denmark 🇩🇰, and not everyone is happy about it

#EU 🇪🇺 #Wolves #Nature #Wildlife #Environment #IllegalHunting #Europe #AnimalWelfare #Animals #AnimalRights #AnimalAg #Livestock #Conservation

theconversation.com/wolves-have-...

The European grey wolf (Canis lupus lupus). Rudmer Zwerver/Shutterstock

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 2d

Officials move to ban controversial meat product: 'The largest slaughter of wild land animals in the world'

#Belgium 🇧🇪 #EU 🇪🇺 #Australia 🇦🇺 #Auspol #NSW #KangarooMeat #Food #Health #AnimalCruelty #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #AnimalLaw

@eurogroupforanimals.org

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

1 3

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 3d

In just a day, volunteers found hundreds of #birds that crashed into GTA buildings

About 2,000 birds have died in the #GTA in the last month flying into buildings...

#Toronto #Markham #Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #FLAP #BirdMigration #AnimalRescue #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #AnimalWelfare

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Some municipalities in the GTA have policies in place to mitigate the risk of bird deaths, but they often leave out private property and existing buildings. (Submitted by Fatal Light Awareness Program)

Visible patterns on glass can help deter birds from windows. Reflective glass can confuse birds by reflecting surrounding greenery, causing collisions and often death. (Summitted by Fatal Light Awareness Program)

3 4 3

Reposted by R. Brassard Ⓥ

Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 3d

Turkeys deserve compassion, not cruelty. If you're celebrating #Thanksgiving, please be kind—leave them off your plate 🦃🧡

2 2

Reposted by R. Brassard Ⓥ

Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 3d

Join us at our next networking event, "Ethics in Action: Networking for Professionals Committed to Animal Protection"🤝🐾

📍192 Spadina Ave, Toronto
🗓️Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from 6:00-8:30 pm
✅ RSVP: animaljustice.ca/EthicsInAction

1 1

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 3d

#Marineland #Belugas #NiagaraFalls #Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #PAWSAct #AnimalWelfare #Wildlife #AnimalCruelty #Marinelife #AnimalLaw #Law #AnimalExploitation
#AnimalRights #Animals #CanadaEthics 🇨🇦

Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 3d

"In my opinion, Marineland is holding a figurative gun to the heads of these belugas & attempting to extort taxpayers to pay for its problem."

Animal Justice’s executive director @camillelabchuk.bsky.social shares her take on Marineland’s disturbing ultimatum in a new Toronto Life Q&A.

Marineland is threatening to euthanize 30 belugas. Can it do that? - Toronto Life

The executive director of Animal Justice weighs in

torontolife.com

1 1 3

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 3d

Homes sought for northern dogs and cats coming to local #SPCA

Fourteen #dogs, 30 #cats heading south as space frees up thanks to successful adoption campaign

Link 4 pics 📸 ⬇️

#Ontario #Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #AdoptDontShop #FosterVolunteers #AnimalRescue

www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/h...

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 4d

Syilx Okanagan Nation chiefs deny issuing cease and desist letter in ostrich cull controversy

#Edgewood #BC #Canada 🇨🇦 #Ostriches #AvianFlu #CFIA #Health #AnimalWelfare #UniversalOstrichFarm
#FirstNations #BCpoli #Cdnpoli #Indigenous

#FreedomConvoy #CanadianQAnon

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Katie Pasitney, left, with her mother, Karen Espersen, co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms on Sept. 22. Pasitney has previously said a 'signatory Indian tribe' has placed the farm and its ostriches under its protection. (Aaron Hemens/The Canadian Press)

2 1 3

R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 4d

Sounds like #Exploitation to me.

Canadian investor says Ford government ignoring proposal to redevelop #Marineland
It would include hotels, casinos,an indoor water park & a winter complex, as well as a marine mammal sanctuary.

#AnimalRights #ONpoli #Cdnpoli

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Animal-rights groups have for years raised concerns about Marineland.
Tara Walton/The Canadian Press

Beluga whales swim in a tank at Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., in June, 2023.
Chris Young/The Canadian Press

Investor Marc Wade says he hoped to work with the Ontario government on a plan for purchasing the site for an entertainment complex and wildlife sanctuary, pictured in this supplied rendering.
Supplied

1 2 5