Some exciting news – I’m now a contributor to the Huffington Post Canada! Law school has kept me busy enough that there’s not much time to blog on here, but I’ll try to keep cross-posting pieces I contribute to other publications.
Here’s the HuffPo piece I wrote a few weeks ago after Toronto City Council voted to retire its three surviving elephant to the PAWS Sanctuary in California – Zoo Elephants Deserve a Second Lease on Life. Such a great victory for these three majestic animals – they deserve to enjoy some wide open spaces after decades spent in the confines of a Canadian zoo. Thank you, Toronto councillors, for showing compassion and empathy for the elephants.
And here’s another piece I wrote, in response to the obscene and disturbing shooting of two escaped steers by police in Gatineau – Gatineau Steer Shooting: Let’s Stop the Bull. The YouTube video of the steers being gunned down has hit hundreds of thousands of views, and people around the world are expressing their revulsion with police actions. I suggest that we should consider the fate that awaited the animals had they made it to the slaughterhouse instead of escaping. The public reaction to their shooting says to me that we are innately sensitive to animal suffering, so we must now turn our minds to the conditions farmed animals experience at all stages of their lives – and deaths.
Sorry for being a bad blogger. I promise to start updating each Monday with my Hill Times Spin Doctors piece!
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