6 JUL 2018 · July 6, 2018   Camille is joined by guest host Samantha Kompa, an Ontario human rights lawyer, to discuss protecting ethical vegans against discrimination in the workplace, hospitals, schools, prisons, and more. Camille and Sam fill listeners in on their recent presentation at the International Vegan Rights Alliance symposium in Scotland, and delve down into how provincial human rights laws and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms can protect people who believe it's wrong to harm animals. Plus, they share details of some of their delicious plant-based food finds in Scotland! Camille and Sam also discuss the many ways animals are suffering in Canada's recent heatwave, and the hypocrisy of prosecuting dogs left in cars but never going after transporters who truck pigs in sweltering hot conditions. They give the details on new footage of horrific suffering on B.C. egg farms, and speculate on the future of Marineland after the death of its owner. This episode's hero is the town of Banff, for outlawing noisy fireworks, and the zero is Senator Don Plett, for obstructing animal protection legislation.   Twitter:  Animal Justice Peter Sankoff Camille Labchuk Facebook: Animal Justice Peter Sankoff Instagram: Animal Justice Camille Labchuk   Special thanks: To our producer, Shannon Milling. To Kevin Lacroix for the podcast logo and for the musical sting in our podcast intro. To DJ Quads for our intro, transition and outro music.     Join the Animal Justice mailing list Yes, I want to stay in touch! 

22 JUN 2018 ·   Hosts Peter Sankoff and Camille Labchuk bring you a very special episode, live from the Animal Justice 10-year anniversary gala! The gala brought together many of Canada's top animal rights lawyers, academics, and advocates, so Peter took the opportunity to interview them. You'll hear from  Alanna Devine of the Montreal SPCA, Vancouver lawyer Rebeka Breder, Animal Justice's own Anna Pippus, Kimberly Carroll, Nick Wright, and Shannon Milling, longtime supporter Rajiv Nambiar, MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, and law professors / academics Valéry Giroux, Katie Sykes, Jodi Lazare, Angela Lee, and Lesli Bisgould. Plus, the hosts discuss the tragic Senate spectacle of Bill S-203 being repeatedly blocked from reaching a vote, Montreal's new ban on horse carriages, and more than 70 rabbis worldwide urging people of Jewish faith to embrace veganism. Learn why this week's hero is MP Robert Sopuck, best known for spearheading efforts to block improvements to Canada's animal cruelty laws. Happily, he won't run again in the next election! (And check out Peter's video debunking Sopuck's misinformation about an animal cruelty bill.) This week's zero goes to our justice system for prosecuting an activist who exposed horrific suffering on Ontario mink farms, while the abusive farms go unpunished.   Twitter:  Animal Justice Peter Sankoff Camille Labchuk Facebook: Animal Justice Peter Sankoff Instagram: Animal Justice Camille Labchuk   Special thanks: To our producer, Shannon Milling. To Kevin Lacroix for the podcast logo and for the musical sting in our podcast intro. To DJ Quads for our intro, transition and outro music.     Join the Animal Justice mailing list Yes, I want to stay in touch! 

12 JUN 2018 ·   Animal Justice is celebrating 10 years! Hosts Peter Sankoff and Camille Labchuk sit down with Nick Wright, founder of Animal Justice, for an in-depth look back at how the group got started, the early days, and how the organization has grown in the first decade of leading the legal fight to save animals. Plus, Peter and Camille discuss a prominent article in the Washington Post about why commercial fishing has to stop ignoring the immense suffering of fish, a Globe & Mail op ed from Jessica Scott-Reid on media coverage of undercover investigations, why there are still no charges one year later in a shocking chicken cruelty investigation, and a powerful speech in the Senate in support of a bill to ban whale and dolphin captivity. Plus, the farm involved in Anita Krajnc's #PigTrial case is back in the news after a barn fire that saw over 3,000 mother and baby pigs burn alive.   Twitter:  Animal Justice Peter Sankoff Camille Labchuk Facebook: Animal Justice Peter Sankoff Instagram: Animal Justice Camille Labchuk   Special thanks: To our producer, Shannon Milling. To Kevin Lacroix for the podcast logo and for the musical sting in our podcast intro. To DJ Quads for our intro, transition and outro music.     Join the Animal Justice mailing list Yes, I want to stay in touch! 

25 MAY 2018 · May 25, 2018   Peter is on vacation this week, so Camille is joined by special guest co-host Anna Pippus, Animal Justice's director of farmed animal advocacy. Tune in for an enlightening conversation about Anna's legal work on behalf of animals confined in farms. Animals used in farming are the largest group of animals abused and killed in Canada every year, yet laws regulating their lives and treatment are often non-existent, or weak and under-enforced. Anna and Camille also delve into the psychology of repeated exposure to animal abuse, and some promising food policy initiatives, like revisions to the Canada Food Guide, that have the potential to reshape our food system and save millions of animals from a lifetime of suffering. Plus, you'll get the low-down on our recent intervention in a case that challenges Ontario's animal protection laws, upcoming veg fests where you can find our team, and some high-profile recent animal cruelty cases and investigations that have made headlines. This includes 14 animal cruelty charges laid against Millbank Fur Farm near Guelph, Ontario, following an extensive undercover investigation by Last Chance for Animals, and a new Mercy For Animals investigation exposing disturbing treatment of baby chicks at an Ontario hatchery. Camille and Anna also talk horses: a shocking video showing two downed carriage horses in Victoria, and a barn fire that killed 16 horses at Sunnybrook Stables in Toronto. Finally, find out why the Whale Sanctuary Project is this episode's hero, and Marineland is named the zero. Links: Whale Sanctuary Project narrows sanctuary search down to two sites, including Nova Scotia Marineland's lawyer registers to lobby against whale and dolphin protection bills Marineland alleges ‘bullying' by animal advocates, while still suing whistleblowers New poll: Canadian public largely opposes whale and dolphin captivity   Find us on social media: Twitter:  Animal Justice Camille Labchuk Anna Pippus   Facebook: Animal Justice   Instagram: Camille Labchuk Anna Pippus   Special thanks: To our producer, Shannon Milling. To Kevin Lacroix for the podcast logo and for the musical sting in our podcast intro. To DJ Quads for our intro, transition and outro music.