Animal Justice

Animal Justice is celebrating 10 years! Hosts Peter Sankoff and Camille Labchuk sit down with Nick Wright, founder of Animal Justice, for an in-depth look back at how the group got started, the early days, and how the organization has grown in the first decade of leading the legal fight to save animals.

Animal Justice is celebrating 10 years! Hosts Peter Sankoff and Camille Labchuk sit down with Nick Wright, founder of Animal Justice, for an in-depth look back at how the group got started, the early days, and how the organization has grown in the first decade of leading the legal fight to save animals.

June 12, 2018   Animal Justice is celebrating 10 years! Hosts Peter Sankoff and Camille Labchuk sit down with Nick Wright, founder of Animal Justice, for an in-depth look back […]

Camille is joined by special guest co-host Anna Pippus, Animal Justice's director of farmed animal advocacy. Tune in for an enlightening conversation about Anna's legal work on behalf of animals confined in farms.

Camille is joined by special guest co-host Anna Pippus, Animal Justice's director of farmed animal advocacy. Tune in for an enlightening conversation about Anna's legal work on behalf of animals confined in farms.

May 25, 2018   Peter is on vacation this week, so Camille is joined by special guest co-host Anna Pippus, Animal Justice’s director of farmed animal advocacy. Tune in for […]

Animal cruelty is notoriously under-prosecuted, but even when there is a successful conviction, the outcome isn't always ideal. Learn about a man convicted of animal offences in Saskatchewan who packed up, moved to B.C. and just had dozens of dogs seized once again. The hosts also discuss an Alberta breeder who is awaiting trial on animal cruelty charges, yet is allowed to carry on with his breeding business in the meantime because he wasn't subject to bail restrictions. Meanwhile, a Nova Scotia woman starved a bunny rabbit to death and a PEI man severely neglected 10 dogs (five had to be euthanized), but they each received only a short ban on animal ownership, and got to keep other animals already in their possession.

In Episode 8 of Paw & Order, hosts Peter Sankoff and Camille Labchuk revisit the Australia live export scandal. After a whistleblower exposed immense suffering and abuse endured by sheep shipped to the Middle East, change may finally be coming to a brutal industry. But what about Canada? Live export happens here at home, too, and it's bad news for animals. Thousands of horses are shipped by air every year to Japan, where they are slaughtered for meat.

Peter talks about breed-specific legislation (BSL) with Alanna Devine—our very first podcast guest! Alanna is a lawyer and director of animal advocacy at the Montreal SPCA. She has played a key role in the legal fight against Montreal's pit bull ban, and a proposed provincial breed ban in Quebec. Tune in to learn why BSL is unscientific, ineffective, expensive, and spells a death sentence for innocent dogs.

Camille Labchuk and Peter Sankoff tackle the topic of false advertising, and how animal lawyers use consumer protection laws creatively to expose and combat animal suffering.