About Us - Animal Justice
WEBAnimal Justice is Canada’s only national animal law advocacy organization. We believe that animals need lawyers, and our legal team works to protect animals from cruelty and neglect. Canada has some of the worst animal protection laws in the Western world, and our mission is to overhaul the legal system to better reflect our country’s ...
Animals on Farms in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBFarmed animals in Canada suffer on a scale that is difficult to imagine. In 2022, over 841 million land animals were killed for food in Canadian slaughterhouses.The total number is unquestionably higher, because government statistics don’t include the millions of animals who die in transport en route to slaughter each year––or who arrive so sick or injured that they must be killed upon ...
Animal Experiments in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBProgress Against Animal Testing for Cosmetics & Toxicity. In 2023, Canada passed two groundbreaking laws to protect animals used for research. The first is legislation aimed at phasing out the use of animals in toxicity tests.Toxicity tests are used to test chemicals to see whether they are harmful to the environment or human health, and many of these tests fall into the cruellest and most ...
Crisis of Cruelty in Canada’s Zoos - Animal Justice
WEBNov 5, 2022 · Crisis of Cruelty in Canada’s Zoos. By Animal Justice. November 5, 2022. X. Animal Justice is releasing the largest investigation of zoos that has ever been undertaken in Canada. We visited nearly every zoo in Ontario—the roadside zoo capital of the country. Our video footage reveals widespread suffering, injuries, death, and troubling ...
Zoos, Aquariums, and Circuses in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBIn 2022, Animal Justice conducted the largest-ever investigation of Canadian zoos, revealing widespread suffering, injuries, death, and troubling threats to public safety. In 2018, Sault Ste. Marie became the first Canadian municipality to ban keeping animals in zoos. More than two dozen municipalities in Canada, plus the entire province of ...
Bill to Ban Live Horse Exports Clears House of Commons Committee
WEBApr 18, 2024 · In September 2023, Liberal MP Tim Louis tabled private member’s Bill C-355 to end live horse export for slaughter. In June 2023, Senator Pierre Dalphond and Canadian icon Jann Arden joined forces to introduce Senate Bill S-270, the Horse Protection Act, which also aims to ban live horse exports. Animal Justice will keep fighting to ban this ...
Legal Protections for Pets in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBIn 2019, after a campaign by Animal Justice and other animal protection groups, Bill C-84 passed into law, closing loopholes in the Criminal Code related to bestiality and animal fighting. This change was a victory for animals, but did not address some of the fundamental problems with the existing law. The continued existence of puppy mills ...
Canada’s Puppy Mill Problem - Animal Justice
WEBHow to Report a Puppy Mill. In the face of poor laws and little enforcement, it’s up to each of us to speak out if we learn of a puppy mill in our community. In Ontario, reports of an animal in distress or being abused can be made to the Ontario Animal Protection Call Centre at 1-833-9-ANIMAL (264625).
Ontario About to Issue New Permits for Penned Dog Hunt …
WEBBy Animal Justice. March 27, 2024. Last year, Ontario passed a sickening new law to expand penned dog hunting in the province, which was in the midst of being phased out. In this disturbing bloodsport, hunters train dogs to chase and maul foxes, coyotes, and rabbits in an enclosed area—where they have no chance of escaping, and are often killed.
Animal Justice Pushes for Answers Following Death of Beluga …
WEBAug 27, 2021 · Animal Justice is urging Canadian officials to investigate after a young beluga whale died less than three months after being exported from Marineland in Ontario, Canada.. In 2019, we learned that Connecticut-based Mystic Aquarium intended to import five belugas from Marineland. After U.S. officials issued the import permit, Mystic Aquarium disclosed that three of the whales slotted for ...