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Cover photo credit: TJ Watts, last photo of Takaya March 24, 2021 will mark a year since the famous west coast wolf known as Takaya was killed by a hunter on Vancouver Island.  Two months before his killing winter storms had taken him by strong currents to an urban Victoria …

Many Victorians were introduced to locally born Jordan Reichert of the Animal Protection Party of Canada (APPC) in the 2015 federal election and he is excited to announce he will be returning as a candidate for the 2019 federal election. Since 2015, Jordan has become the deputy leader of the …

Tristin Hopper standing on the body of a raccoon he killed. Tristin Hopper of the newly formed online magazine “The Capital” has recently returned to Victoria to base his free-lance career here. His welcome was worn out for many Victoria residents on August 23, 2019 with this tweet: Tristin Hopper’s …

Penny is a sweet and very popular pig living at RASTA Sanctuary on Vancouver Island.  The unique part of her rescue story is that she perpetrated the event herself … Two years ago, as a man sped along a busy highway in Saskatchewan, he was amazed to see a small …

Gracie, a 160-pound “pot belly” pig, is lucky now to be living her life at A Home for Hooves farm sanctuary in Duncan, BC.   She has a pen and shelter with her name inscribed to let you know that it is “her place”. Finally, she has a place. Gracie was …

Temper tantrums and bad behaviour steer wildlife management in British Columbia. In February 2018 my friend and colleague Jordan Reichert posted my Victoria Animal News story “A One-Man Bounty on Wolves in BC,” to his public page.  In that article I revealed a plan by a BC hunter, Steve Isdahl, …

Jordan Reichert is a community, animal, environmental, and social justice advocate born and raised in Victoria, B.C.  Having run previously in the 2015 federal election for the Animal Protection Party of Canada, and in the 2017 provincial election as an independent, Reichert has decided to run for municipal council in …

On May 3, 2018 witnesses observed a grizzly cub under a bridge near Grand Cache, Alberta. They called the Grand Cache Animal Society. Brandy Gienger, one of the founders of the Society, went to the site to check on the condition of the cub. She advised the provincial Fish and …

Vancouver/Victoria – A new Angus Reid poll reveals that where no pets policies are already illegal, landlords and tenants are more likely to support tenants having the right to have pets in their homes. The poll found residents in provinces like Ontario were most likely to support the right of …

The old adage ”In like a Lion, out like a Lamb,”refers, of course, to the vagaries of March weather, but this March it’s been “Out with lions,” (mountain lions, or cougars), and also “out with” one unfortunate little lamb. On March 6th, three cougars (two juveniles and one adult female) …