Animal lawyer & executive director of @AnimalJustice. I tweet about animals, law, food, politics.
Toronto
Joined March 2009
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Congratulations to Vancouver’s new mayor Pete Fry, a friend to animals!
theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
Only one hour into my work day and I've already had to receive and enter four separate 2FA codes. Just for basic services. The time suck of 2FA has gotten SO out of hand.
It's almost as though we need a new voting system, fit for multi-party democracies! @FairVoteCanada
The PQ got a smaller share of the vote this election then they did in 2007, when they finished third.
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Quebec dairy farmers are running misleading ads that suggest cows get to live in pastures. In reality, over 70% of Quebec dairy cows spend their lives chained by the neck inside stalls in barns. I'm glad @lesoleildeqc covered this troubling ad campaign.
lesoleil.com/actualites/agri…
Want to help pass stronger laws for animals? This Friday in Toronto we're hosting a political advocacy workshop with some impressive speakers. Join us!
(Stand-alone tix available for. $20, you don't have to attend the whole conference.) alaconference.ca
🏛️ Turn public concern into real policy change for animals!
Join @CamilleLabchuk, Cheri Shanker, Aaron Freeman, Pierre Sadik, & Sayara Thurston at #ALAC2026 for a special interactive workshop on how to lobby for animals—including a hands-on simulation!
🎟️ bit.ly/47jY5ym
ALT This image is a poster for the Animal Law & Advocacy Conference, taking place from October 2-4 in Toronto. It features the title "Effective Political Advocacy for Animals" and photos of five speakers: Camille Labchuk, Cheri Shanker, Aaron Freeman, Pierre Sadik, and Sayara Thurston. Animal Justice's logo and website (alaconference.ca) are included.
Camille Labchuk retweeted
"The narrative that there was no choice but to move these sensitive, highly intelligent animals within an irresponsibly short timeline is false. Marineland’s ownership wanted to unlock the massive real estate wealth that lies beneath its decrepit water tanks, & these unfortunate souls were standing in the way.” — @CamilleLabchuk, executive director of Animal Justice
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Four belugas and one dolphin have died in the US/Spain since the Marineland transfers. There will be more.
These whales were failed by Marineland and everyone else involved.
chicagotribune.com/2026/09/2…
Join us next month in Toronto to talk about banning fur farms in Canada!
Join us for a special Ethics in Action event!
Speakers Alanna Devine (@AnimalJustice) & Jeff Phillips (@FurBearers) will explore why ending fur farming is vital for animal protection, public health, & environmental safety 🦊
🗓️ Oct 21, 2026, 6:00 PM
📍CSI, Toronto
🎟️ RSVP 👉 bit.ly/4dtwo9N
ALT This poster advertises an event titled "One Health, One Future: Building Momentum to End Fur Farming," scheduled for Wednesday, October 21st, at the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto. Organized under the banner of "Ethics in Action"—a networking initiative for professionals committed to animal protection—the event features guest speakers Alanna Devine, Director of Advocacy at Animal Justice, and Jeff Phillips, Federal Government Relations Lead at The Fur-Bearers. Visually, the graphic displays headshot portraits of both speakers alongside a photograph of a white mink, and provides an RSVP link at animaljustice.ca/ethics-in-action.
Privatizing airports will make air travel more expensive. This is VERY basic math. Companies aim to extract profit for shareholders and will force us to pay more.
In a country where airlines already engage in monopolistic gouging, the last thing we need is privatized airports.
See @ArshyMann's writing about what happened when Australia privatized its airports in the 1990s. Spoiler alert: air travellers got gouged and politicians came to regret it!
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Ontario is planning to BAN horse slaughter in provincial plants! Why? Because they acknowledge the public is largely against killing horses for food.
This is huge. The feds should take note & ban the live export of horses to Japan for slaughter.
regulatoryregistry.gov.on.ca…
I joined @TomiLahren to talk about the tragedy facing Marineland’s belugas. Two have already died in the U.S., and now aquariums can force them to have more babies. Appalling.
30 Beluga Whales STUCK in Canada’s Marineland 🐋
Now they’re being airlifted in a “rescue” — but U.S. parks can still breed them, and one already died after the flight to Shedd.
@TomiLahren @CamilleLabchuk @TLisFearless
Full episode ↓
link.podtrac.com/fearless_yt
Rodeo is so cruel and legally problematic that Alberta just passed a bill to exempt rodeo from general animal welfare laws.
Tells you everything you need to know about this abusive practice.
thestar.com/opinion/contribu… via @torontostar
Canada banned whale & breeding captivity in 2019.
These belugas were supposed to be the last generation to suffer in captivity, but they won't be.
US aquariums can now breed them because Canada didn't attach any no-breeding conditions to export permits, undermining our laws.
Marineland begins transporting 6 beluga whales to U.S. aquarium, marine park
globalnews.ca/news/11973067/…
Canada's government still hasn't come clean about the export permits for these belugas, and whether they approved their "rescue" to American aquariums that want the belugas to use as breeding stock—which is ILLEGAL in Canada.
cp24.com/news/2026/07/20/six…
Camille Labchuk retweeted
This week 20,000 pigs burned to death in a factory farm fire in Ontario.
They haven't let photographers inside. But here's what another pig factory farm looked like after it burned.
It's hard to imagine the suffering of these intelligent, sensitive animals — trapped, without any means of escape or hope of help, as the flames engulfed them.
It's harder to imagine the greed of an industry too cheap to even install sprinkler systems.
It stuns me that we let farmers confine 20K sentient pigs inside a single factory farm—just imagine their terror at burning alive inside a miserable warehouse. Please take a look at your food choices and consider opting out of this system.
cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ho…
The truth is that these large-scale, industrial operations don't care about the well-being of animals. They just care about profit. Why pay for sprinklers when insurance covers the fire, and they're back to business as usual?
#CdnAg #CanadianFarmers #FamilyFarm
Reptile expos treat snakes, lizards, and other sensitive little beings like commodities, often stuffing them inside reused takeout containers. They shouldn't be allowed and these animals are NOT appropriate pets.
🚨 Animals do NOT belong in takeout containers! We’ve filed a legal complaint over disturbing conditions at a Manitoba reptile expo.
We witnessed wild animals crammed into tiny plastic containers with nowhere to hide & little room to move. These stressful conditions likely violate animal protection laws 💔
ALT A social media graphic by Animal Justice showing several snakes and leopard geckos confined in small, clear plastic deli cups with price tags on a table. Overlaid text reads: "Animal Justice lawyers file complaint over shocking & likely ILLEGAL conditions at Manitoba reptile expo."
It stuns me that we let farmers confine 20K sentient pigs inside a single factory farm—just imagine their terror at burning alive inside a miserable warehouse. Please take a look at your food choices and consider opting out of this system.
cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ho…