Circle K Goes Cage-Free!

Couche-Tard expands its cage free commitment, with 2,000 franchise-owned stores around the world committed to stop selling eggs from caged hens by 2025.

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12 Women Animal Lawyers Who Are Changing the Game in 2023

The field of animal law has grown exponentially in Canada over the past decade. Animal law has grown from a small and largely unknown area of practice into a respected area of the […]

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Rally Against Big Plastic: Animal Justice in Court to Protect Single-Use Plastic Ban

Concerned Canadians gathered outside the Federal Court to show their support for protecting the ban on many single-use plastic products.

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Canadian Walruses Rented to New SeaWorld Park

Smooshi, Koyuk, and Boris will be far from their natural home of the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas, and displayed for entertainment at a new SeaWorld facility.

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Brits Concerned by Canada’s Lagging Animal Welfare Standards

A coalition of trade groups and animal welfare advocates is sounding the alarm about Canada’s animal welfare standards.

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Government Petition: Stop Killing Animals for Military Trauma Training Exercises

Despite the majority of our allies choosing more effective techniques, pigs are still being blown up, shot or poisoned by the Canadian military in outdated trauma training exercises.

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Toronto Rally Against Big Plastic Producers Suing Canadian Government

Environmental Defence and Animal Justice supporters will be outside the federal court building in Toronto to send a message to plastics producers to stop challenging environmental regulations and act on plastic pollution.

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Poisoning Ground Squirrels With Strychnine is Being Banned

Health Canada’s ban on products containing strychnine for use to kill Richardson’s ground squirrels does not go far enough.

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Call On Canada To #ExpandtheBan on Single-Use Plastics

Contact the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault to thank him for taking action against plastic pollution, and to encourage the government to #ExpandtheBan!

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Animal Protection Groups File Application for Investigation of Illegal Coyote Hunting Contest Under Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights

TORONTO—Animal Justice and Coyote Watch Canada have filed an application for investigation under Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights (“EBR”)— a cornerstone statute that gives Ontarians a right to request an investigation when […]

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Animal Justice & Coyote Watch Canada File Application for Investigation of Illegal Coyote Hunting Contest

Animal Justice and Coyote Watch Canada have filed an application for the investigation of an illegal coyote hunting contest under Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights.

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Student Animal Law Research Paper Contest 2023

The Student Conference will take place on Friday, September 29 2023 in the lead up to the Canadian Animal Law Conference, at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in Toronto, Ontario.

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Birds Left Behind as Loblaws’ Profits Soar

Loblaws boasted to shareholders for years about its commitment to helping hens by going cage-free, but is now breaking its promise.

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