Culture

Pets OK BC & The Mustard Seed Street Church to Co-Host Town Hall Meeting on Pets & Housing Pets OK BC and The Mustard Seed Street Church welcome the public and key stakeholders to join in a community town hall to consider the issue of pets and housing. As BC …

Big Money for Government – Hunting By Kelly Carson, President of the B.C. Deer Protection Society Part 3 of a multi-part series on conservation officers, trophy hunting and culls in B.C. One of the first things you’ll notice when you download the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations’ 2014-2016 …

CONSERVATION OFFICER WANTS TRAP RETURNED TO TRAPPER By Kelly Carson of DeerSafe Victoria Part 2 of a multi-part series on conservation officers, trophy hunting and culls in B.C.  Read part one here. One afternoon in February, 2016, Lynne Cracknell and her husband took their dogs for an outing near White …

Awaiting Rescue, Black Bear Cub Destroyed by Conservation Officer Part 1 of a multi-part series on conservation officers, trophy hunting and culls in B.C. By Kelly Carson of DeerSafe Victoria. On Friday, May 6, 2016 Tiana Jackson was driving from her home to Dawson Creek, 50 km away.  Three kilometres …

Interview with Darren Chang, Animal Advocacy Camp organizer and animal activist/advocate. Date: MAY 21-22 Location: The WISE Hall (1882 Adanac St, Vancouver, BC) AAC missed 2015, why do you think it is important that it is back again this year? Conferences are important and useful ways for like-minded people to converge …

Streets of Victoria Finally Free Of Animal Exploitation. It was an all night meeting between the City, representatives from the carriage industry, and the Victoria Horse Alliance, but in the end history was made. Council passed a motion to phase out the carriage horses, who they had previously defended, by …

View Royal rabbits get forever home, but more money still needed for rescue efforts. View Royal rabbits trapped on the Helmcken overpass now number nearly 100 and will soon be heading from their small precarious plot of land on the Helmcken overpass all the way to a sanctuary in Texas, but funds are …

When Gary Charbonneau went to the 2014 Vancouver Park Board Public Hearing on Whales in Captivity, something didn’t sit right with him.  “I was concerned with the lack of information the aquarium presented, including questionable statements so I decided to investigate.” This became the impetus for Charbonneau’s second film, Vancouver …