🌱 Less About Vegan Food, More About Vegan Issues 🌱
Welcome to The Victoria Vegan – your online source serving Victoria, British Columbia since 2006! Our focus is to cover various local issues and happenings that are relevant to vegans and animal rights activists, and organizing occasional events.
Check out our Vegan Venue Guide, now with 50+ listings, and will be updating other sections as quickly as possible, but in the meantime feel free to browse the Blog archive, with stories going back to 2010!
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Upcoming Events
Keep up-to-date with events in the area, check back here regularly, or sign up for our email updates!
- Fri, Oct 10th, 6pm – Green Cuisine community meet-up
Every month Green Cuisine has a community meet-up, come say hi to your friendly locals! Details on their Instagram page. - Sat, Oct 11th, 11am – the 10th Edition of the Save-A-Turkey Trot 5k fun walk/trot/run that’s a fundraiser for Home For Hooves – all the details here!
- Sat, Nov 1st – Happy World Vegan Day!
- Mon, Nov 3rd, 6-8:30pm – Blackfish film screening with the UVic Animal Justice Club, all welcome, free, details here.
- Thu, Nov 27th, 7-9pm – Holiday Plant-Based Cooking Class with Saskia Bjornson and Dr. Jordan Morton, details here!
- Every Second Wednesday
VeganSupply.ca free pick-up option – order on their website, and pick up on Wednesday, right here in town (schedule and more details here.)
Newest Posts
The 2025 Save-A-Turkey Trot was held on October 11th, and was the 10th edition of the event! This year also…
A few days ago I was cycling along Oxford St by the Cook Street Village when I saw the strangest…
This isn’t a typical topic for The Victoria Vegan, but many vegans also support rescues, and try to give rescued…
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The 2025 Save-A-Turkey Trot was held on October 11th, and was the 10th edition of the event! This year also…
Does Anyone Go Vegan After Being Yelled At?Considering Why We Need To Be More Mindful With How We Protest Last…
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UPDATE Nov 26/2024: There’s a surprising update to this story – we’ve got one more reason Oreos aren’t vegan:…
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On Wednesday, October 15th I attended the Wildlife Co-Existence Event organized by the Vegan Congress at Emily Carr University…