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		<title>Event Report for the 2025 Save-A-Turkey Trot</title>
		<link>https://thevictoriavegan.ca/blog/event-report-for-the-2025-save-a-turkey-trot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 2025 Save-A-Turkey Trot was held on October 11th, and was the 10th edition of the event! This year also featured a Trot in Calgary as well! The Victoria Vegan has been a co-host of the event for a number of years, and happy we broke our previous fundraising record for Home For Hooves! Check [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Victoria&#8217;s Peacock Paradox</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I was cycling along Oxford St by the Cook Street Village when I saw the strangest thing: two police officers putting a peacock in a &#8216;paddy wagon&#8217;. (Side note: peacocks are the flashy males, peahens are females, and known collectively as peafowl, but I&#8217;ll use the term peacock for the purpose [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Price of Caring For Pets in 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[➡Editors Note: Be sure to check out the Updates at the bottom. This isn&#8217;t a typical topic for The Victoria Vegan, but many vegans also support rescues, and try to give rescued animals the best lives they can, so this is likely a topic of interest to many of our readers, and may welcome some [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Oreos &#8211; A Surprising Divider of Vegans</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 03:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[UPDATE Nov 26/2024: There&#8217;s a surprising update to this story &#8211; we&#8217;ve got one more reason Oreos aren&#8217;t vegan: they&#8217;re now from a company that does animal testing. PETA has put out the word that Mondelez, the company that owns Oreos, has done some pretty awful stuff recently. (PDF backup.) Now if only PETA would [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Letters Needed: Mt Doug Pumpkins Attract Wildlife to Dangerous Roadside</title>
		<link>https://thevictoriavegan.ca/blog/letters-needed-mt-doug-pumpkins-attract-wildlife-to-dangerous-roadside/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 19:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re asking Victoria residents who care about wildlife to write Saanich Council about the pumpkins that have been left along the Mt. Doug Parkway the last few years. While they may seem quaint and innocent enough, they&#8217;re actually attractants, which draw in a number of species to this busy roadway. Small rodents like rats or [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Event Report For the 2024 Save-A-Turkey Trot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 2024 Save-A-Turkey Trot was held on October 5th, and was the 9th edition of the event! The Victoria Vegan has bee a co-host of the event for a number of years, and we&#8217;ll be back for the 10th edition in 2025! In the meantime, find the full report here at AboutTheRide.ca, the host this [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Fresh New Look!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The site was originally designed in 2006, hand-coded from scratch, and not terribly fun to update, but it served its purpose and hosted all the info we need! But it desperately needed an update, and while it&#8217;s been on my radar for a few years, just didn&#8217;t have time to get around to it until [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Back Online &#038; Updated Domain Name!</title>
		<link>https://thevictoriavegan.ca/blog/back-online-updated-domain-name/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2022 06:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello Victoria, just a quick update, that the website is now back!   The &#8220;.com&#8221; domain name was stolen (domain registrar didn&#8217;t alert that it was expiring, then was bought by another entity, I suspect in cahoots, who now wants hundreds for it), but I picked up the &#8220;.ca&#8221; domain name instead, and have finally [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Save-A-Turkey Trot 2018</title>
		<link>https://thevictoriavegan.ca/blog/save-a-turkey-trot-2018/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2018 22:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a few years, but the OrganicAthlete Victoria Save-A-Turkey Trot is back for the fifth Trot! It&#8217;s a fun 5k run/walk/trot and this year it&#8217;s also a fundraiser for A Home for Hooves and RASTA animal sanctuaries. (It&#8217;s so nice to have animal sanctuaries on the island now, this wasn&#8217;t the case when we [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A New Project: VeganStart.org!</title>
		<link>https://thevictoriavegan.ca/blog/a-new-project-veganstart-org/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2014 22:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very excited to announce a new project to promote veganism: VeganStart.org is accessible and practical, and offers an introduction and stepping stone to veganism. For those who might find it challenging to commit fully to a vegan diet, or a 7 day &#8216;kickstart&#8217;, this could be what&#8217;s needed to give veganism a try. The program [...]]]></description>
		
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