Animal Rights Toronto

AR Chats @ Wishbone
2025-04-19 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | Wishbone Animal Rights Lab, Suite 305, 600 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1M6, Canada
Come join with other like-minded and like-hearted people to chat, brainstorm, and strategize about standing up for the animals!
On the agenda: Along with general discussion about getting animal-active, planning has begun for the 2025 Toronto Animal Rights March! Anyone interested in volunteering as an organizer, we look forward to seeing you.
Zoom link available. Contact Jenny McQueen, Colleen Burns, or Sue Spahr for details.
A few details about AR Chats @Wishbone:
Whether you’re a seasoned advocate or someone new to the scene, this is a judgment-free, no-pressure environment that welcomes every idea and supports every comfort level. Because each person is uniquely wired and different tactics resonate with different people, there’s no one foolproof form of activism.
After each session, attendees are encouraged to participate in a street action to put your new skills and energy into practice (this is totally voluntary, no pressure).
Some attend one week, but can’t come to the next one…just attend when you can.
Please feel free to bring a plant-based food item to share.
Let’s return Toronto and other cities in Ontario to the thriving, prolific animal activism centres they once were!
As the building that houses Wishbone is a heritage building boasting one of the last attendant-operated elevators in the city of Toronto (but only during weekday office hours), Wishbone will unfortunately not be accessible to anyone requiring a lift to the third floor. Our apologies in advance for this inconvenience.
Wishbone Animal Rights Lab…where vegan is the default, NOT the option.
Note: Please check the Facebook event page for updates.

Vegan Fashion Show - AJA Zoom
2025-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
Our next AJA Lunchtime Live is on Thurs, April 17!
Between animals used for down and feathers, leather, wools, and fur, over five billion animals are subjected to cruel practices every year by the fashion industry.
As organizer of The Vegan Fashion Show, head of a public relations agency, and a model, Vikki Lenola joins us to talk about how we can help these animals by making the fashion industry more compassionate.
We’ll discuss:
– the ethical and environmental harm of animal-based fashion
– the latest innovative and sustainable non-animal materials
– how culturally diverse vegan fashion is becoming
– the biggest challenges vegan fashion needs to overcome
– how The Vegan Fashion Show has been a bridge between the vegan community and the fashion community.
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f you’re interested in advocating in this area of animal protection or simply want to know what’s up in vegan fashion options for your own buying knowledge, make sure to join us for this gathering!
REGISTER (free): https://training.animaljusticeacademy.com/lunchtime-live-registration-03312025
Thursday, April 17, 2025
12:00-1:00pm ET on ZOOM

Toronto Cow Save Vigil for the Cows
2025-04-15 10:00 - 12:30 | St. Helens Meat Packers Ltd, 1-3 Glen Scarlett Rd., Toronto, Ontario, M6N 1P5, Canada
Toronto Cow Save holds vigils for the cows to bear witness to, to speak up for, and to bring awareness to the hundreds of lives who are needlessly and violently stolen daily at Toronto slaughterhouses.
NOTE: please check the Facebook event page before attending for changes or cancellation.
Please join us! Bring a friend. Be their voice.
Placards, leaflets, and support are provided.
After the vigil, we go to a coffee shop to decompress, share our experience, and to organize for animals. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join.
Learn more at TorontoCowSave.com

Fur Protest at LVMH
2025-04-13 14:30 - 15:30 | 150 Bloor St West, 150 Bloor St West, Toronto
Join us as we return to our protesting of LVMH and others on Bloor for their continued use of fur in their product line.
This is a worldwide campaign and we will never cease our efforts until they commit to dropping the sale of fur in their stores and on their website.

Protest Whole Food for Failing Chickens
2025-04-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Whole Food Market Avenue Rd, 87 Avenue Rd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Join Mercy For Animals volunteers to demand that Whole Foods stop sourcing Frankenchickens—birds selectively bred to grow monstrously large unnaturally fast.
We are working hard to expose the truth behind the chicken industry’s continued use of Frankenchickens and to pressure Whole Foods, who pledged to stop sourcing them by 2024, to keep their promise and publish a plan for banning Frankenchickens from their supply chain. Learn more about the campaign here: https://frankenchickens.com/
We will be at the Whole Foods located at 87 Avenue Rd, Toronto, ON M5R 3R9 Saturday, April 13 at 1 PM to inform the public about this issue and hold them accountable to their promise. We will have a banner, signs, and leaflets to use the day of. Come with yourself and bonus if you can bring a friend!
By attending this and other Mercy For Animals events, you agree to our Volunteer Terms (https://mercyforanimals.org/volunteer-terms/) and Volunteer Handbook.
If you have any questions feel free to message me on Facebook or by email at animalsmatter@hotmail.com.
Thank you,
Kelli Demontneay
Note: Please check the Facebook event page for updates.

Bake Sale Fundraiser for activist Leeanne Manuel
2025-04-12 10:00 - 15:00 | Ontario
From 10 – 3 at Amimal Liberation Kitchen. 100 Broadview avenue, just south of Queen Street in the east end of Toronto

Cube of Truth: Toronto
2025-04-06 15:00 - 18:00 | 595 Bay Street, 595 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
If you are interested in staying up to date on future chapter activity, please join the following volunteer group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1888163914763063/
Before attending a Cube of Truth, it is mandatory that you learn our AV Outreach Protocol by watching the full AV Masterclass, which includes the latest “Holding Non-Vegans Accountable” outreach workshop, and reading our AV Outreach Flowchart document here: activism101.com
The Cube of Truth is a street outreach campaign that employs direct action with the public, in a structured manner. We use standard practice footage displayed on screens to expose the truth about animal agriculture to the public and one on one conversations to educate them about animal exploitation.
Masks, signs, and outreach cards are provided by the organisers. Please bring a fully charged laptop or tablet if you have one, with our standard Cube footage and recommended media player already downloaded and ready to play on a loop. It is important to prepare your device ahead of time. Make sure your device is muted, has Wi-Fi disabled (to preserve battery life), has brightness maximized and password protection disabled.
Recommended Media Player: www.videolan.org/vlc
Cube Footage: www.anonymousforthevoiceless.org/event-footage
When attending a Cube of Truth, please do not bring bags or personal belongings unless you absolutely need to. If you do, this means you will be wearing your bag for the duration of the event, so pack lightly. Any items brought to the Cube are your responsibility. ORGANISERS WILL NOT BE STORING AND ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PERSONAL BELONGINGS IN ANY WAY.
Always wear weather appropriate PLAIN BLACK clothing without any graphics, logos of other organisations, and/or messages not in line with our abolitionist stance, or wear AV branded clothing without the line “animals · environment · health”. This is essential to our aesthetic. You can purchase official AV clothing on our website: cubeoftruth.com. Absolutely no animal derived clothing, footwear and no fake fur (including faux fur trims) is to be worn at a Cube of Truth.
Respect AV chapter organisers and other volunteers at all times, adhere to our structure and represent our core values while attending a Cube of Truth. The seriousness and professionalism of our actions are directly proportional to how the public perceives us.
Thank You for Standing With Us.
Note: Please check the Facebook event page for updates.

Cube of Truth: Burlington
2025-04-05 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-29 14:00 - 16:00 | 1477 Lakeshore Rd, Burlington, 1477 Lakeshore Rd, Burlington, Ontario, L7S 1B5, Canada
If you are interested in staying up to date on future chapter activity, please join the following volunteer group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2138152503095759/
Before attending a Cube of Truth, it is mandatory that you learn our AV Outreach Protocol by watching the full AV Masterclass, which includes the latest “Holding Non-Vegans Accountable” outreach workshop, and reading our AV Outreach Flowchart document here:
activism101.com
The Cube of Truth is a street outreach campaign that employs direct action with the public, in a structured manner. We use standard practice footage displayed on screens to expose the truth about animal agriculture to the public and one on one conversations to educate them about animal exploitation.
Masks, signs, and outreach cards are provided by the organisers. Please bring a fully charged laptop or tablet if you have one, with our standard Cube footage and recommended media player already downloaded and ready to play on a loop. It is important to prepare your device ahead of time. Make sure your device is muted, has Wi-Fi disabled (to preserve battery life), has brightness maximized and password protection disabled.
Recommended Media Player: www.videolan.org/vlc
Cube Footage: www.anonymousforthevoiceless.org/event-footage
When attending a Cube of Truth, please do not bring bags or personal belongings unless you absolutely need to. If you do, this means you will be wearing your bag for the duration of the event, so pack lightly. Any items brought to the Cube are your responsibility. ORGANISERS WILL NOT BE STORING AND ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR PERSONAL BELONGINGS IN ANY WAY.
Always wear weather appropriate PLAIN BLACK clothing without any graphics, logos of other organisations, and/or messages not in line with our abolitionist stance, or wear AV branded clothing without the line “animals · environment · health”. This is essential to our aesthetic. You can purchase official AV clothing on our website: cubeoftruth.com. Absolutely no animal derived clothing, footwear and no fake fur (including faux fur trims) is to be worn at a Cube of Truth.
Respect AV chapter organisers and other volunteers at all times, adhere to our structure and represent our core values while attending a Cube of Truth. The seriousness and professionalism of our actions are directly proportional to how the public perceives us.
Thank You for Standing With Us.
Note: Please check the Facebook event page for updates.

Adidas 3 Day Online Pressure Campaign
2025-04-01 09:00 - 2025-04-03 17:00 | Online Event
Join Our Three-Day Online Campaign to Urge Adidas to Ban the Sale of Kangaroo Leather.
We are launching a three-day online action to encourage Adidas to cease the use of kangaroo leather in their products. Here’s how you can participate:
Day 1: Social Media Campaign: Join us in a comment blast on Adidas’ social media platforms. Let’s make our voices heard.
Day 2: Customer Service Call:s Help amplify our message by calling Adidas’ customer service line to request an end to the use of kangaroo leather.
Day 3: Email Advocacy: Participate in an email blast by sending a pre-written message to Adidas, urging them to take action.
Each activity will be launched at 9:00 AM EST across our Facebook and Instagram platforms. We encourage you to share this campaign with your network to maximize its impact.
Further details about each action will be shared on the designated day.
We are committed to promoting this cause while standing firmly against any form of oppression or hateful language.
For inquiries, feel free to reach out to Not Your Skin. Together, let’s make a difference!
Note: Please check the Facebook event page for daily actions.

"The Ghosts In Our Machine" Film Screening @Hot Docs
2025-03-30 15:00 | Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, 506 Bloor St W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A feature doc by Toronto’s Liz Marshall revealing the lives of individual animals within the machine of our modern world.
Aside from our companion animals and the wild or stray species in urban spaces, we mostly experience animals as food, clothing, test subjects or entertainment. This moral dilemma remains largely hidden. The Ghosts in Our Machine—directed by Toronto filmmaker Liz Marshall—reveals the lives of individual animals trapped in, and rescued from, our modern world’s machinery.
Through the lens of animal rights photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences intimately connect with a cast of non-human animals. From undercover investigations to joyful rescues across North America and Europe, each photograph and story exposes global industries—Food, Fashion, Entertainment, and Research. The Ghosts in Our Machine follows McArthur’s mission to spark awareness of an issue many prefer to ignore: Are non-human animals mere property, or sentient beings deserving of rights?
Join director Liz Marshall for a virtual post-screening Q&A
Tickets: https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/films/ghosts-in-our-machine

CN Tower Fur Protest
2025-03-29 15:00 - 16:00 | CN Tower, 290 Bremner Blvd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Weird location for a fur protest? Sure, but “any port in the storm”. We want to continue to get our message out there and we’ll be at the anti-fishing protest before (are you coming to that? Link below) so why not spread the anti-fur message while we are down there? We are sure we will see lots of fur. Please join us. For the animals. ❤️
Check event page for updates: https://facebook.com/events/s/cn-tower-fur-protest/1600792447290562/

Toronto - World Day for the End of Fishing and Fish Farming
2025-03-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, 288 Bremner Blvd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Join us on the sidewalk as we protest alongside the international event – World Day for the End of Fishing and Fish Farming at https://end-of-fishing.org/
Signs will be provided or you’re welcome to bring your own too.

The Rez Dog Crisis. Zoom.
2025-03-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
🐕💔 The Rez Dog Crisis: Animal Justice Academy Lunchtime Live 💔🐕
📅 March 27 | 12 PM ET
🎙️ With Katie Powell & Jumpsey Mercer
🆓 Register free: https://training.animaljusticeacademy.com/lunchtime-live-registration-03272025
Dog overpopulation in many remote First Nations communities in Manitoba has reached a crisis point due to a severe lack of resources—limited access to veterinary care, spay/neuter services, and even basic food supplies.
As a result, thousands of dogs and puppies freeze to death in Manitoba’s harsh winters, suffer from starvation, or are shot in culls—often enduring slow, painful deaths.
To add to the tragedy, dog attacks occur in communities lacking bylaws, enforcement officers, dog food, and vet care. Children in reserve communities are 180 times more to be attacked by a dog than other children.
Join us as Katie Powell(Save A Dog Network Canada) & Jumpsey Mercer (Pukatawagan community & dog advocate) unpack this urgent issue.
We’ll look at how colonial harm, racism, and intergenerational trauma factor into the challenges. We’ll find out about the rescue groups and First Nations community members and leaders working tirelessly to find solutions. And we’ll discuss the need for federal and provincial governments to step up to support a comprehensive, Indigenous-led plan to protect dogs and community safety in Manitoba.
Plus, hear about the first-ever Rez Dog Networking Conference happening in May!
🐾 Don’t miss this crucial conversation—register now! ⬆️

Farm Animal Sanctuary care
2025-03-25 16:30 - 17:30 | Online Event
Join the IG live stream at 4:30pm est at https://www.instagram.com/p/DHmb3kFytTj/?igsh=MWkycm5vdDZoZGdvMA==

Elbows up against the fur trade
2025-03-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto, M5H 2N1, CA
We’ll be at the corner of Bay and Queen St to meet up, and at 2:30 will attempt to mingle within Nathan Philips square.
We’ll have the big ‘Canadians against fur’ banner and the ‘end the fur trade’ banner.
A last minute event, for a very busy downtown gathering.
Check Event page for updates: https://facebook.com/events/s/elbows-up-against-the-fur-trad/3853478964964694/

Lucy The Stolen Lives of Elephants - film
2025-03-21 08:00 - 17:00 | Carlton Cinema in Toronto, 20 Carlton St, Toronto, Ont, M5B 2H5, Canada
First documentary film that investigates how zoos deceive the public under the guise of education and conservation. At the heart of the film is Lucy living in Edmonton, alone, in a concrete cage with painted trees while her advocates fight Edmonton City Council to release her to a sanctuary.
March 21 – Theatrical Release at Carlton Cinema in Toronto, ON
April 2 – Event Screening at Westdale Theatre in Hamilton, ON
Additional screenings TBC Broadcast Premiere: April 6, 2025 – documentary Channel

Preliminary Court Appearance - Farm Building Protest
2025-03-20 08:30 | 10 Armoury Street, 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jenny McQueen is facing criminal charges for attempting to protest the inside the Farm building at the Canadian National Exhibition – aka CNE’s “the ex”.
This court date, in room #202 at 10 Armoury Street in Toronto, is merely a brief appearance to set future dates. Sketch artist David Louis Wall is following this case, and will be in court sketching those in attendance.
The defense lawyer or their representative will likely be attending via zoom.
McQueen says “At a time when animal rights activists are releasing footage from inside disgusting farms, and even inside gas chambers where pigs are lowered, screaming for their lives, the pampered mother pig at the CNE, and the other live animals, resting on hay with their cute babies around them is completely deceiving the visiting public.”
Jenny was with a group of individuals who had all bought tickets to visit the CNE on 18th August 2024. She was the only one arrested.
Petition to end live animal displays at the CNE: https://www.change.org/CNE-Farm-Lies
#CNEFarmTrial

Preliminary Court Appearance - Raptors Live Export Protest
2025-03-19 08:30 | 10 Armoury Street, 10 Armoury Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jenny McQueen is facing criminal charges for protesting on the court of play at the Raptors game on 19th December 2024.
This court date – Room #203 at 10 Armoury Street in Toronto, is merely a brief appearance to set future dates. Sketch artist David Louis Wall is following this case, and will be in court sketching those in attendance.
The defense lawyer or their representative will be attending via zoom.
The protest was to bring attention to the horrendous live exports of horses from Canada to Japan for a type of sushi.
You can still take online action – Animal Justice have the following link for you to contact the new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and ask him to be a #HeroForHorses & end this cruelty now.
Tell Mark Carney to follow through on the Liberals’ promise before the next federal election
https://bit.ly/3DKDhor
#CdnPoli
#RaptorsHorseTrial

All Day Vigil & Outreach
2025-03-17 11:00 - 19:00 | St. Helens Meat Packers Ltd, 1-3 Glen Scarlett Rd., Toronto, Ontario, M6N 1P5, Canada
Please join us for an all-day vigil for the pigs and cows event on Monday, March 17 followed by Plant Based Treaty outreach.
See schedule below.
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🐮 Toronto Cow Save vigil for the cows
📍 St. Helen’s Meat Packers, 3 Glen Scarlett Rd., Toronto
[ maps.app.goo.gl/LHaCW53xARwUHVc56 ]
🕥 11:00am – 12:30pm
🥗 Picnic
📍 Victoria Park, Hamilton
[https://maps.app.goo.gl/XhS7y3Y1osA4nm3A6]
🕥 2:00 – 3:00pm
🌿 Plant Based Treaty Outreach
📍 Hamilton City Hall
[ https://maps.app.goo.gl/jdhEHB8R2phvopze6 ]
🕥 3:30 – 5:00pm
🐷 Toronto Pig Save vigil for the Pigs
📍 Fearman’s slaughterhouse, Appleby Line at Harvester Rd., Burlington
[ https://maps.app.goo.gl/DP9sM1pS7P1UFwSA6 ]
🕥 5:30 -7:00pm
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NOTE: please check back before attending for changes or cancellation.
Please join us! Bring a friend. Be their voice.
Learn more about the cow vigils at TorontoCowSave.com and pig vigils at TorontoPigSave.org.
Please read regarding safety at ASM vigils: https://drive.google.com/…/1Syrzx0ZwiApqtskukzI…/view
ASM Code of conduct:
Code of Conduct

PaintPix & Chill@ The Lab
2025-03-16 12:00 - 15:00 | Wishbone Animal Rights Lab, Suite 305, 600 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1M6, Canada
PaintPix & Chills have become popular, so we’ve decided to make them a permanent regular fixture at Wishbone. Due to the need for artists need to spread out and create, the event is capped at 15 participants.
Enjoy a relaxing, enjoyable afternoon and let your creative juices flow freely with Kieran Hayes, volunteer at Wishbone (aka The Sunday Guy).
BYOM (bring your own materials) or feel free to use what’s available at the Lab. All skill levels from zero to Picasso are welcome.
We are a default-vegan centre, so if you’re bringing food, it must be plant-based only.
As the building that houses Wishbone is a heritage building boasting one of the last attendant-operated elevators in the city of Toronto (but only during weekday office hours), Wishbone will unfortunately not be accessible to anyone requiring a lift to the third floor for this particular event. Our apologies in advance for this inconvenience
Note: Please check the Facebook event page for updates.

Support Canada - Buy Cruelty-Free Canadian Coats
2025-03-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dundas Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
After the latest instalment of AR Chats at Wishbone we will be heading down to Yonge and Dundas.
https://www.facebook.com/share/195vEkSLUV/
We are trying something a little different, along with something we have done before. We want to attract shoppers by displaying a Canada and Animals-First stance.
Join us wearing your best Canadian Vegan Coats, if possible. Red and White is another great option! Bring Canadian Flags and other Canadian memorabilia. We will highlight all the alternatives people can buy, where to pick them up and also let them know which brands are not only cruel but not Canadian.
We will be also be dragging out some old fave signs from J and P’s basement – namely Canada Goose, Rudsak, Mooseknuckles and Nobis, just to let people know what they shouldn’t be supporting.

AR Chats @ Wishbone - Saturday March 15th
2025-03-15 11:30 - 13:30 | Ontario
Saturday March 15, 2025 from 11:30am – 1:30pm
Date selection and planning begins for the 2025 TORONTO ANIMAL RIGHTS MARCH! Anyone interested in volunteering as an organizer, we look forward to seeing you!
New year, new resolve, new strategies.
Join with other like-minded and like-hearted people to chat, brainstorm, and strategize about standing up for the animals!
On the agenda: Along with general discussion about getting animal-active and business by FurFree Toronto, date selection and planning begins for the 2025 Toronto Animal Rights March!
A few details about AR Chats @Wishbone:
Whether you’re a seasoned advocate or someone new to the scene, this is a judgment-free, no-pressure environment that welcomes every idea and supports every comfort level. Because each person is uniquely wired and different tactics resonate with different people, there’s no one foolproof form of activism.
After each session, attendees are encouraged to participate in a street action to put your new skills and energy into practice (this is totally voluntary, no pressure).
Some attend one week, but can’t come to the next one…just attend when you can.
Please feel free to bring a plant-based food item to share.
Let’s return Toronto and other cities in Ontario to the thriving, prolific animal activism centres they once were!
As the building that houses Wishbone is a heritage building boasting one of the last attendant-operated elevators in the city of Toronto (but only during weekday office hours), Wishbone will unfortunately not be accessible to anyone requiring a lift to the third floor. Our apologies in advance for this inconvenience.
Wishbone Animal Rights Lab…where vegan is the default, NOT the option.

Compassion Fatigue?
2025-03-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
It’s such a tragic irony we see over and over again with animal advocates…
You get drawn into working with animals because you have such a tender and caring heart, and then that heart ends up getting PUMMELLED by constantly having a front-row seat to the worst abuses of animals imaginable. 🙁
Empathy overload happens when you’re constantly exposed to the suffering of others without enough resources to properly process this. Compassion fatigue is the depletion of feeling and caring capacity because of empathy overload…and it’s taking way too many animal advocates down.
In this active Animal Justice Academy Lunchtime Live workshop on Thursday, March 13, AJA Director and coach for changemakers Kimberly Carroll will take us through three ways to deal with empathy overload and compassion fatigue:
1. Better boundaries to provide some sanctuary from the constant onslaught of painful situations and stimulus
2. Simple, tangible techniques to regularly process emotional pain
3. A short daily routine to build up your inner resilience
During this online gathering, we won’t just talk about these strategies, we’ll test-drive them in our time together, so you can come out of this session feeling some relief and having
powerful new tools to put to use.
ABOUT KIMBERLY: As a coach for changemakers, Kimberly helps activists, non-profit folks, and mission-inspired leaders and entrepreneurs build the inner resilience and outer strategies to change the world while not losing themselves in the process.
REGISTER FREE: https://training.animaljusticeacademy.com/lunchtime-live-registration-03132025

The Trifecta on Bloor
2025-03-01 14:00 | Louis Vuitton Maison Toronto, 150 Bloor Street West, Toronto, M5S 2X9, CA
Let’s keep up the pressure on these three disgusting stores that continue to think that fur and skins are for selfish humans to wear.
Please meet at LVMH 150 Bloor St. at 2:00. We will then visit Hermes and Loro P

Great British Breakfast - Aunty Em’s pop up
2025-03-01 12:00 - 18:00 | Ontario
The great British popup!!
Full English Breakfast Focaccia (bacon, beans, just egg, tomato loaded rosemary focaccia) $8
Chick’n pot pie with mash $15
(Pie only $12)
Sausage roll $3
Sticky toffee pudding $6

Movie Night at the Lab: The Invisible Vegan
2025-02-28 18:00 - 21:00 | Ontario
Join us for a vegan celebration of Black History Month with a movie night screening of The Invisible Vegan.
The Invisible Vegan is a 90-minute independent documentary that explores the problem of unhealthy dietary patterns in the African-American community, foregrounding the health and wellness possibilities enabled by plant-based vegan diets and lifestyle choices. Featuring interviews with luminaries such as Cedric the Entertainer (actor and comedian), John Salley (former NBA player and wellness advocate), and Clayton Gavin (aka Stic of the hip-hop duo Dead Prez), this documentary shows how intertwined histories of slavery, twentieth-century socioeconomic inequalities, and the rise of Big Food, have led to the increased consumption and dependence on meat, processed, junk, and fast food.
Inspired by Ralph Ellison’s 1952 firsthand account of alienation as an African-American in The Invisible Man, the title of this documentary evokes the ways in which prevailing attitudes and stereotypes about veganism within the African-American community have rendered the benefits of this lifestyle invisible within spheres of popular culture, social experience, and political debate.
There will be a “concession stand” but feel free to bring your own plant-based snacks & drinks. This is another opportunity to connect with the Toronto animal rights community.
Bring a snack, invite a friend.
Everyone is welcome!
Note: Please check the Facebook event page for updates.

All Day Vigil & Outreach
2025-02-26 07:30 - 20:00 | Fearmans Pork Inc., 821 Appleby Line, Burlington, ON, Burlington, L7L 4W9, CA
Please join us for an all-day vigil for the pigs and cows event on Wednesday, February 26th followed by Plant Based Treaty outreach.
See schedule below.
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🐷 Toronto Pig Save vigil for the pigs
📍 Fearman’s slaughterhouse, Appleby Line at Harvester Rd., Burlington
🕥 7:30-9:30am
🐮 Toronto Cow Save vigil for the cows
📍 St. Helen’s Meat Packers, 3 Glen Scarlett Rd., Toronto
🕥 11:00am to 1:00pm
🥙 Lunch (Optional)
📍 Thien Tam Restaurant, 2907 Dundas St W, Toronto
🕥 1:30pm – 3:00pm
🌱 Plant Based Treaty Toronto Outreach
📍 Wishbone Animal Rights Lab, 600 Bay Street, 3rd floor
🕥 3:30pm – 6:00pm: Outreach (materials provided)
🕥 6:00pm – 8:00pm: Refreshments
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NOTE: Please check the Facebook page before attending for changes or cancellation.
Please join us! Bring a friend. Be their voice.
Learn more about the cow vigils at TorontoCowSave.com and pig vigils at TorontoPigSave.org.
Please read regarding safety at ASM vigils: Global Safety Rules
ASM Code of conduct:
https://thesavemovement.org/code-of-conduct/

Protest Whole Foods for Failing Chickens
2025-02-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Whole Food Market Avenue Rd, 87 Avenue Rd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Join Mercy For Animals volunteers to demand that Whole Foods stop sourcing Frankenchickens—birds selectively bred to grow monstrously large unnaturally fast.
We are working hard to expose the truth behind the chicken industry’s continued use of Frankenchickens and to pressure Whole Foods, who pledged to stop sourcing them by 2024, to keep their promise and publish a plan for banning Frankenchickens from their supply chain. Learn more about the campaign here: https://frankenchickens.com/
We will be at the Whole Foods located at 87 Avenue Rd, Toronto, ON M5R 3R9 Saturday, February 22 at 2 PM to inform the public about this issue and hold them accountable to their promise. We will have a banner, signs, and leaflets to use the day of. Come with yourself and bonus if you can bring a friend!
By attending this and other Mercy For Animals events, you agree to our Volunteer Terms (https://mercyforanimals.org/volunteer-terms/) and Volunteer Handbook (https://file-cdn.mercyforanimals.org/…/MFA-Volunteer…)
If you have any questions feel free to message me on Facebook or by email at animalsmatter@hotmail.com.
Thank you,
Kelli Demontneay
Note: Please check the Facebook event page for updates.

Compassionate Clothing Collective
2025-02-22 11:00 - 18:00 | Wishbone Animal Rights Lab, Suite 305, 600 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1M6, Canada
Please join us once again for another clothing swap! Winter edition.
For a very low cost of $3, you gain entry to a swap-’til-you-drop event where you can give your previously-loved threads a new lease on life and you, too, can go home with some cool classic duds. Unique knick-knacks, as well!
🐕 Please feel free to bring dog clothing, accessories and toys to swap.
Human accessories and decorations are also welcome.
🪡 DIY Corner: Don’t have many clothes to swap? Join us in the other room for DIY activities! We will have patch work, sewing to repurpose, repair and recycle and a cozy space to work on your own projects. Feel free to hang out and get creative! 🧑🏽‍🎨
Note: Please check the Facebook event page for updates.
