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		<title>Does Anyone Go Vegan After Being Yelled At?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 06:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Does Anyone Go Vegan After Being Yelled At?Considering Why We Need To Be More Mindful With How We Protest Last weekend, Vancouver-based activists from Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) and new Victoria group The Critical Cat (formerly The Raging Kucing) allied for a number of actions, including a protest of the downtown restaurant &#8216;pig&#8217;. You can view the [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Victoria Election 2014: Help Make the Carriage Horses an Issue</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 22:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Please help make it clear to candidates this is an election issue for you, and you&#8217;re interested in their position so you can make an informed choice at the polls on November 15th. You can simply ask: &#8220;What is your position on the horse-drawn carriages?&#8221; or ask for more specifics. Please take a minute to [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vancouver Aquarium Demonstrates its Corrupt Values</title>
		<link>https://thevictoriavegan.ca/blog/vancouver-aquarium-demonstrates-its-corrupt-values/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;m in Vancouver (just for a couple years &#8211; yuck, I miss Victoria!), I&#8217;m involving myself in some of the local activism. A current urgency is the dealings with the Vancouver Aquarium. They have plans to expand their facility, and opposition has increased significantly since the release of the documentary Blackfish, campaigns and [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Media Release &#038; Action: Accident Renews Call for Horse Carriage Ban</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2014 05:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Credit: CHEK News footage. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAccidentRenews Call for Horse Carriage Ban Victoria, BC &#8211; May 23,2014 &#8211; After confirmed reports of a carriage horse throwing andinjuring its driver and colliding with two cars and a motorcycle thisevening, local activist group Carriage-Free Victoria is renewing their call oncouncil to ban this industry. Victoria-based animal activist DaveShishkoff has [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Catching Up: Victoria Screening of The Ghosts in Our Machine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 21:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back on April 23rd, I participated in the Open Cinema &#8216;Connecting The Docs&#8217; feature screening of Canadian documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine, which tracks photographer Jo-Anne McArthur as she investigates a fur farm, livestock farms, and animal laboratories and the animals used in these exploitative industries. The event itself had a big social media [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Oak Bay &#038; CRD Deer Updates</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, the Oak Bay News published a letter from Nils Jensen &#38; the Oak Bay Council on the deer. (Original PDF can be found here, a bit better formatting, from the City of Oak Bay website.) It&#8217;s great they&#8217;re increasing feeding fines and allowing taller fences (there was a 6&#8242; height restriction, which [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bryan Adams: Killing Seals Wrong, but Rodeo Okay?</title>
		<link>https://thevictoriavegan.ca/blog/bryan-adams-killing-seals-wrong-but-rodeo-okay/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello readers! Earlier today I spotted this tweet from Lori, an article on Bryan Adams, who&#8217;s sometimes described as vegan, playing at the Calgary Stampede. #calgarystampede #AnimalCruelty @bryanadams so disappointed 🙁 #notvegan— Lori Wheeler (@lorijwheeler) April 25, 2014     Disappointing to say the least, the rodeo is a monstrous event, torturing hundreds of animals [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Available in Victoria: On Their Own Terms</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You may have heard of FoA VP Lee Hall&#8217;s new book, On Their Own Terms: Bringing Animal Rights Philosophy Down to Earth, and now it&#8217;s available in town, at Sarah&#8217;s Place &#8211; if you haven&#8217;t seen this vegan boutique, make sure you stop in! It&#8217;s on the outside of Market Square on Pandora, and is [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s Animal Law and Policy Must Change: Friends of Animals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Canada frequently trails others in its attitudes and policies regarding animals. Whether it&#8217;s a lack of a meaningful Endangered Species Act or protection of the trees and lands, or support of international treaties, protection for fur-bearing animals or ordinary anti-cruelty measures, Canada&#8217;s record is abysmal. Many people think of Canada and think of the annual [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>UVic Rabbit Killing: Nature Abhors a Vacuum</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Shishkoff, Editor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Alley Cat Allies has published an interesting document called The Vacuum Effect: Why Catch And Kill Doesn’t Work (read the PDF here: http://www.alleycat.org/NetCommunity/Document.Doc?id=534 ) researching the efficacy of kill or ‘cull’ programs, mainly in relation to feral cat populations. It’s no surprise to learn that the elements that drew cats to the area will [...]]]></description>
		
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