About Us - Animal Justice
Animal 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 ...
Save Boogie: Help Send Lonely Monkey to a Sanctuary!
Despite filing multiple legal complaints with authorities, Boogie remains in a small, lonely cage. Boogie deserves to be sent to a sanctuary like Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary, in Sunderland, Ontario—which is already home to an olive baboon seized from Bervie in 2022. Boogie’s situation is dire, and she doesn’t deserve to wait any longer.
Zoos, Aquariums, and Circuses in Canada - Animal Justice
In 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 ...
Tell Senate to Pass Bill to Ban Horse Exports for Slaughter
The vast majority of Canadians want to see an end to this cruel practice. The government committed to banning the export of horses for slaughter back in 2021, and MP Tim Louis introduced Bill C-355 to make good on this promise in 2023. Bill C-355 has passed the House of Commons but is now being stalled in the Senate, where conservative Senators ...
Crisis of Cruelty in Canada’s Zoos - Animal Justice
Nov 5, 2022 · Crisis of Cruelty in Canada’s Zoos. By Animal Justice. November 5, 2022. X Email Share. 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 ...
Legal Protections for Pets in Canada - Animal Justice
In 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 ...
Animal Experiments in Canada - Animal Justice
Progress 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 ...
Animals on Farms in Canada - Animal Justice
Farmed animals in Canada suffer on a scale that is difficult to imagine. In 2023, over 859 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 ...
Canada’s Puppy Mill Problem - Animal Justice
How 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 …
Stop Penned Dog Hunting Expansion | Animal Justice
City. Yes! I would like to receive updates from Animal Justice. Doug Ford is about to issue new licenses for dog hunting pens—where captive coyotes, foxes, and rabbits are used as live bait for hunting dogs to chase & kill. The Ontario government had quietly backed away from plans to expand this bloodsport, but instead bowed to the hunting lobby.