Camille Labchuck Quotes

Camille Labchuck Executive director of AnimalJustice. “We’ve got this obligation to animals as a society to try to help them if we can.” “Canada hadn’t passed any serious new animal protection legislation since the eighteen hundreds. That’s pretty shocking to most people.” “We’ve got this obligation to animals as a society to try to help them if we can.” “We never would have come this far, and people never would have known about the industry,…

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Animal Rights Lawyer, Camille Labchuk, on Canada’s Laws to Finish Shark-Finning and Cetacean Captivity and Animal Rights and Wrongs

Camille Labchuk (@CamilleLabchuk) executive director of Animal Justice (@AnimalJustice) talks with Mark Leiren-Young (@Leirenyoung) about Canada’s new laws to cancel cetacean captivity and finish finning sharks and the fight for legal rights for animals and vegans.  Skaana connects you with eco-heroes sharing ideas about oceans, eco-ethics, the environment and how you can change the world. “Canada hadn’t passed any serious new animal protection legislation since the eighteen hundreds. That’s pretty shocking to most people.” –…

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Animal Rights Lawyer, Camille Labchuk, on Canada’s Laws to Finish Shark-Finning and Cetacean Captivity and Animal Rights and Wrongs

Camille Labchuk (@CamilleLabchuk) executive director of Animal Justice (@AnimalJustice) talks with Mark Leiren-Young (@Leirenyoung) about Canada’s new laws to finish shark-finning & cancel cetacean captivity and fighting for legal rights for animals and vegans.  Skaana connects you with eco-heroes sharing ideas about oceans, eco-ethics, the environment and how you can change the world. “Canada hadn’t passed any serious new animal protection legislation since the eighteen hundreds. That’s pretty shocking to most people.” – Camille Labchuk…

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Water sampling: what are we doing? Q&A with Mark Mattson

Mark Mattson tests an outfall on the Humber River for E. coli bacteria during an interview with The Globe & Mail, circa 2002. Last week I sat down with Mark Mattson, President of Swim Drink Fish and the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, to get more insight into how the organization protects water.  I have been working here for five months as part of the Toronto water quality monitoring team. This summer I went down to the…

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