🌱 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!
- Sept 27th – Oct 5th (Ends @ 1pm) – Online auction fundraiser for Home For Hooves! Dozens of items to bid on, help them reach their goal of raising $15,000!
- Thu, Oct 9th – Cinnaholic’s 4th Year Anniversary with specials on cinnamon buns, details here!
- Thu, Oct 9th – (LADYSMITH) Music Bingo, fun and fundraiser in one, for VegFest Nanaimo 2026, details here.
- 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!
- Every Second Wednesday
VeganSupply.ca free pick-up option – order on their website, and pick up on Wednesday, right here in town (details here.)
Newest Posts
We’re asking Victoria residents who care about wildlife to write Saanich Council about the pumpkins that have been left along…
The 2024 Save-A-Turkey Trot was held on October 5th, and was the 9th edition of the event! The Victoria Vegan…
The site was originally designed in 2006, hand-coded from scratch, and not terribly fun to update, but it served its…
Does Anyone Go Vegan After Being Yelled At?Considering Why We Need To Be More Mindful With How We Protest Last…
It was a grey, cool day, one I’m sure seals could appreciate for the ‘Save Our Seals Sprint’ 5km fun…
A few days ago, the Oak Bay News published a letter from Nils Jensen & the Oak Bay Council on the…
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