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R. Brassard Ⓥ

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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

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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

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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

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R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 11h

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...

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R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 22h

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)

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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 1d

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

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R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 23h

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

Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 23h

"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

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R. Brassard Ⓥ @veganrick.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 1d

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)

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

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

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

Marineland belugas deserve legal protection, not posturing and politics

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

www.law360.ca/ca/naturalre...

Photo of V. Victoria Shroff
V. Victoria Shroff

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

#Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting #whales, #seals and #polarbears
...remove key pieces of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted in 1972...

#USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #Oceans #AnimalWelfare #Wildlife #Marinelife #AnimalRights
#Cdnpoli #UK #EU #Auspol #NZpol

apnews.com/article/seal...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

apnews.com

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

#NiagaraFalls mayor stresses urgency of finding #Marineland #belugas a new home as it’s running out of food

Jim Diodati says no time to waste to relocate #whales, other #animals from closed #Ontario park

#Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #Wildlife #AnimalRights #AnimalWelfare

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

A drone shot of Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., in recent months shows some of the 30 surviving beluga whales. The mayor says he's heard from people around the world offering help as the defunct amusement park says it's running out of money to care for the whales. (Patrick Morrell/CBC)

A bear looks up from an enclosure at Marineland when the park was still open to the public in 2023. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)

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

#LongTailedMacaque #AnimalTesting #Wildlife #IUCNRedList #AnimalResearch #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #CharlesRiverLabs
#Cdnpoli #USpoli

Action for Primates @actionforprimates.bsky.social · 2d

Conservation status of the #longtailedmacaque maintained as Endangered on the IUCN Red List - despite challenge by animal research industry - due to habitat loss & high levels of exploitation, including by global trade for research & toxicity testing: www.iucnredlist.org/species/1255...

Long-tailed macaque juvenile wild-caught in Indonesia, roughly carried; Action for Primates

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

30,000 Monkeys in our Backyard 🎥

A shocking true story of one small town’s fight against the U.S. monkey testing industry.

...premieres worldwide on November 1.

#Bainbridge #Georgia #USA 🇺🇸 #USpoli #Monkeys #Wildlife #AnimalTesting #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights

www.speciesunite.com/30000monkeys

Monkey closeup

30,000 Monkeys in our Backyard

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

#VegNews

🚨BREAKING 🚨 For the first time in their history, @voguemagazine and @glamourmag will ban new animal fur in their editorial content and advertising. #furfree

vegnews.com/the-best-faux-…#EndFurFarmingn#Fashiono#Wildlifef#AnimalCrueltyt#AnimalWelfarer#AnimalRightsts

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

Vegan MREs Coming to US Military Rations by 2027

#USpoli #USA 🇺🇸 #USMilitary #MREs #Food #Health #Vegan #Nutrition #Plantbased

#Cdnpoli #UK #EU #Auspol #NZpol #AnimalWelfare #AnimalLaw #AnimalRights

vegconomist.com/society/vega...

Vegan MREs Coming to US Military Rations by 2027 - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine

Mercy For Animals has played a key role in pushing for more plant-based options in military rations. A 2022 survey conducted by the group found that 81% of

vegconomist.com

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

#Marineland #Ontario #NewfoundlandLabrador #Canada 🇨🇦 #ONpoli #Cdnpoli #NLpoli #AnimalRescue #Belugas #Whales #MarineSanctuary #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights

Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 2d

Will #Marineland’s whales find sanctuary in Burgeo, Newfoundland & Labrador? 🐋 The town’s mayor says with a Marine Protected Area in development off the south coast, Burgeo could be the best place for the whales Marineland has threatened to kill.

Burgeo Entertaining Possibility of Transferring Marineland’s Belugas to South Coast

The Mayor of Burgeo is offering up the possibility of transferring 30 beluga whales from Marineland in Niagara...

vocm.com

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

Do you want to see the reality of what is going on in the Canadian Fur Farming industry? 🎥

#Canada 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #FurFarming #Wildlife #ShortFilms #Education #Documentary #Animals #Fashion #AnimalCruelty #Health #Environment #TaxpayerSubsidies #Movies #Youtube #AnimalRights

The Fur-Bearers @thefurbearers.bsky.social · May 13

What’s really happening behind the scenes on Canadian fur farms? Find out in the premiere of our new short film, Canadian Fur Farms: Exposed. Animal cruelty, taxpayer subsidies, health & environmental risks - the truth is undeniable. It’s time to act now. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dty...

Canadian Fur Farms: EXPOSED

YouTube video by The Fur-Bearers

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

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#Canada 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #EndFurFarming #Wildlife #AnimalCruelty #AnimalWelfare #Health #Fashion #AnimalRights #CanadaParliament

The Fur-Bearers @thefurbearers.bsky.social · 4d

Last week, MP Gord Johns officially read petition e-6589 into Parliament, joining The Fur-Bearers and other advocates in calling on the federal government to end fur farming in Canada. www.westerlynews.ca/home/ndp-mp-...

NDP MP Gord Johns calls to put an end to fur farming

“Banning fur farms is a move that has the support of the public, environmentalists, infectious disease experts and First Nations, and yet this government continues to shell out taxpayer dollars to sup...

www.westerlynews.ca

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

#Cdnpoli #Canada 🇨🇦 #SupremeCourtOfCanada #FurIsDead #FurFarming #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights

The Fur-Bearers @thefurbearers.bsky.social · 2d

Canada’s Supreme Court Justices were fur-free for the first time at the ceremonial opening of the judicial year – leaving their white mink fur robes in the past! This underscores the broader cultural shift away from using fur from wildlife. Learn more: buff.ly/XUI5Tgf

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

Why it’s so hard to find a new home for Marineland’s 30 belugas

#Whales’ fate up in the air after Ottawa declined Niagara Falls, Ont., park’s export request

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

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

View from above of the Marineland waters where belugas are
Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., as seen in drone footage in July shows remaining belugas at the defunct amusement park. With Ottawa turning down export permits for the park's 30 remaining belugas, there's scrutiny over what could happen to them and where they could be relocated. (Patrick Morrell/CBC)

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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 2d

Learn more & speak up for hens ⤵️

Sobeys Broken Cage-Free Promise | Animal Justice

Animal Justice exposes cruelty at Sobeys supplier farms. See the truth behind Sobeys’ broken cage-free egg promises & demand change. sobeysdroppedtheball.ca

sobeysinvestigated.ca

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

#WorldEggDay #Cdnpoli
#Canada 🇨🇦 #Sobeys #CageFreePromise #AnimalWelfare #Hens #Food #AnimalCruelty #AnimalRights

Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 2d

In cages, hens spend every day suffering in stress, fear, & unimaginable pain 💔 Sobeys—a massive, wealthy grocer—promised to stop selling eggs from caged hens by 2025.

Yet today, 80% of Sobeys’ eggs come from birds trapped in cages. It’s time to end this abuse! #WorldEggDay

Hens in battery cages at Sobeys egg supplier.

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

The #KarachiZoo Is Proof That Man Is The Cruelest Animal

The tragedy of Karachi Zoo is not just caged animals dying a slow death in the name of “education” but the haunting reflection of our own moral decay.
#Pakistan 🇵🇰 #Zoos #AnimalWelfare #Wildlife #AnimalRights #Ethics

www.dawn.com/news/1931259

Male lion laying on concrete infront of dirty pool of water

Monkey in a caged, concrete, barren enclosure

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Action for Primates @actionforprimates.bsky.social · 3d

Monkeys from #Mauritius subjected to a 44 hour transport ordeal on #SmartLynxMalta for testing labs in USA. Forced to endure multiple flights & stops, including 11 hours at Brussels Airport. A relentless & inhumane trade in monkeys’ lives. Shame on @Ramgoolam_Dr & @SeeMauritius

Long-tailed macaques in Mauritius monkey farm; Cruelty Free International

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