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Make your voice count

Your voice is needed on these important issues. Here’s how you can take action — and why it matters.

50 ways to help

Your actions make a difference

Make sure your elected officials know that you are an advocate for animals. When you contact your elected official, you’re putting a face and a name on an issue.

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Sad chicken in a battery cage

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End cruel confinement

Ask Canada grocery retailers to require real progress for farmed animals.

mouse animal testing

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Urge Canada to invest in humane science

In Canada, millions of animals are still used in painful experiments.

Caged monkeys

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Stop the import of endangered primates

Canada imports endangered primates to suffer in research and testing laboratories. 

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Foie gras production typically involves feeding the animals through metal pipes forced down their throats, making their livers blow up to 10 times their natural size – a process known as gavage. The birds are then killed and their livers harvested as a fatty “delicacy.”
Urge Quebec to prohibit force-feeding for foie gras

Force-feeding animals until their organs become diseased urgently needs to end.

Big cat in captivity

Humane World for Animals

End the captivity of wildlife for entertainment

Big cats, elephants and great apes are suffering in captivity across Canada.

Dogs on a dog meat farm
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Help dogs get a second chance in Canada

Allow rescue organizations in Canada to continue to help dogs from around the world.

Lion at a roadside zoo

Michael Bernard

Stop the captivity of wildlife in Quebec

Help us ensure that no animal suffers at the hands of roadside zoos in Quebec ever again.

Gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park
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British Columbia: End wildlife killing contests

Please act now to help ban wildlife killing contests in British Columbia.

A beluga whale on display at Marineland
Animals are suffering at Marineland

Marineland has a history of being investigated for animal abuse, neglect and exploitation.

black mink fur farms in Asia
Ban fur farming across Canada

Hundreds of thousands of animals—mostly mink and foxes—are living in misery on factory fur farms in Canada. Join our call for an end to this cruelty.

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Canadian Horse Defence Coalition

End the export of live horses for slaughter

Horses are flown by air, crammed into wooden crates without water, food or rest.

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