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Lesli Bisgould

@bisgould.bsky.social
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Lawyer trying to advance the rights of human and non-human animals. Hopeless fantasies of being a great singer.

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 4h
“From a business perspective, [airport privatization] can produce...higher revenues and lower expenditures,” @davidmaccdn.bsky.social says. “But that doesn’t necessarily translate to better service or cheaper prices for the travelling public...” #cdnpoli themargin.news/dont-privati...
themargin.news
There's a better way to fix Canada's airports
Carney's privatization plans would turn our airports into a different kind of hell. Here's what to do instead.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 04/10/2026
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Alberta’s separatists would sell us out to the Americans
New reporting by The Globe and Mail detail the influence of Republican-aligned interests on the referendum campaign
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Johnny Oberg @johnoberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This pig is desperate for her freedom. But she won't get it because she's trapped in the hell that is animal agriculture. [video via Humane Farming Association]
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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, we stand with Indigenous communities, & we remember the children who never came home from residential schools. Reconciliation is a shared responsibility. It calls on all of us to listen, learn, & take meaningful action 🧡
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The world’s primary forests are more than just trees. They are elders of the Earth, older than any human story, sheltering species we have yet to see, breathing life into the world around us. On #InternationalDayofForests, choose to protect the irreplaceable. | #IntlForestDay @canopyplanet
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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Marineland belugas that died in Chicago had rocks, maybe paint in stomachs A statement from the office of Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson said the preliminary necropsy findings reveal “an unacceptable neglect for their health and well-being prior to their relocation.” apple.news/A4HPr3BWOQ8e...
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Marineland belugas that died in Chicago had rocks, maybe paint in stomachs before arrival: initial necropsy — CBC News
Post-mortem examinations for two former Marineland belugas indicate the whales were sick when they arrived at their new home at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Peekachu, 23, and Rain, 20, were part of a ma...
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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It hurts so much to see video of those belugas being lifted in slings, their tails waving in the breeze, searching for water. We must never, ever, perpetrate such a heinous crime again.
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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
4 Marineland belugas & 1 dolphin have died since 30 whales & dolphins were recently shipped to the US & Spanish aquariums after #Marineland threatened to kill them. Marineland & governments knew for years that the marine park was closing. There was time to plan a real retirement for these animals.
chicagotribune.com
Multiple belugas have died at Shedd Aquarium since dramatic rescue from Canada. Activists say the transfers happened too quickly.
The health of two other rescued whales who were sent to Shedd Aquarium is also a concern, representatives said.
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The Emperor's New Podcast @podcasttenp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think we should all agree as a people to replace the term "shark infested waters" with "shark inhabited waters"
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Lesli Bisgould @bisgould.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And so gentle. Yet we treat cows appallingly. This one seems to be in a sanctuary or she got lucky in a good home. Almost all of her conspecifics live in human inflicted misery and pain.
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Lesli Bisgould @bisgould.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I admire the adept way Prime Minister Carney is hustling to save the Canadian economy but selling off these precious essentials means we won’t want either the diminished Canada he delivers, or the diminished global economy that welcomes them. We must all demand better.
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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Octopus farming is extremely unethical and stupid. These creatures among the smartest species in the entire planet, with complex emotional lives. To subject these being to a lifetime of confinement and suffering in barren tanks before a slow and agonising death needs to stop. Please sign this 👇🏼
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Governor Hochul: Ban Octopus Farming Now
Octopuses are among the most extraordinary animals on Earth. They solve puzzles, use tools and even recognise individual people. But octopus farming would subject these intelligent animals to a lifeti
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Doc Sportello ❌👑 @digyoursoul.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Iceland is moving to end commercial whaling permanently. That would leave just Japan & Norway as the 2 nations which legally allow whaling uk.whales.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Icelandic government to introduce bill to end whaling - Whale and Dolphin Conservation
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Lesli Bisgould @bisgould.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Such a joy to see, especially by comparison to those confined in dirty, miserable tortuous tanks at the super market awaiting their turn to be boiled alive.
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Lesli Bisgould @bisgould.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mark Carney’s investment summit will fail without addressing this fundamental issue 🌎💰 davidsuzuki.org/expert-artic...
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Mark Carney’s investment summit is bound to fail unless it faces this fundamental issue
David Suzuki critiques Prime Minister Mark Carney's Investment Summit for prioritizing economic growth over ecological survival.
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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
5000 Farms operates 45 acres. None of their produce is sold. Volunteers harvest the crops, and all of it is distributed to New Brunswick food banks to battle food insecurity in the province. 👏🥰🇨🇦 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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N.B. farm exists for one purpose: feeding people who need it the most | CBC News
5000 Farms grows produce and meat exclusively for New Brunswick's food banks. Founder Ken Reid started the operation in 2015 and now farms 45 acres, pushing up to 300,000 pounds of food a year into th...
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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dahlia was rescued by Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary after she likely jumped to freedom from a transport truck. We love seeing Dahlia thriving & hope for a future where every pig can experience the same love, freedom, & joy ❤️ 📹: Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary | Instagram
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🍁 Left Coast Tree Frog 🕊️ @leftcoasttreefrog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Iceland to submit bill that could ban whaling in its waters. The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice. #cdnpoli www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Iceland to submit bill that could ban whaling in its waters
The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practice
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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Manitoba dismissed our appeal challenging the use of cruel poison & suffocating foam to kill ground squirrels in Winnipeg parks 🐿️💔 The poison can cause slow, agonizing deaths, orphan young squirrels, & kill non-target animals. 📣 Winnipeggers: tell your councillor to choose humane alternatives.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 07/09/2026
The whistleblower has posted footage from inside a JBS pork plant, showing broken equipment and a near-impossible working environment. buff.ly/RNplkFW
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‘Navigating in Guts’: a Former Worker Exposes Conditions Inside Slaughterhouse
The whistleblower has posted footage from inside a JBS pork plant, showing broken equipment and a near-impossible working environment.
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Darth Empath @jhatman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A human can only survive 2-7 days without clean water, whereas we can survive in perpetuity without datacenters. Choose wisely.
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Mamabird @jaybirdnest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Humans need water for survival NOT data centers!
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Lesli Bisgould @bisgould.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
thestar.com
Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford has waged a Trump-like war on bike lanes. Here’s how Toronto can fight back
Ford’s war on bike lanes is a culture war. From protests to narrowing roads, here is how Toronto can fight back.
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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Kaitlyn Mitchell, director of legal advocacy for [Animal Justice], said the rushed process 'likely had far more to do with clearing the way for Marineland’s real estate deal than it did with these animals’ welfare.'"
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2 More Belugas Die at Shedd, 1 Rescue and 1 Longtime Resident
“At this time, it is impossible to know if these passings are isolated or related,” Shedd said in a statement.
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Meanwhile, in less than two weeks, billionaires, private equity vulture firms, banks, sovereign funds and pensions will gather in Toronto to bid on a deluge of new oil, gas and mining projects as @mark-carney.bsky.social convenes the Canada Investment Summit aka Canada fire sale. #manyvsthemoney
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 01/09/2026
An octopus farm proposal sparked global uproar from animal welfare advocates, scientists and ordinary people – including one nine-year-old. buff.ly/tNeEOve
sentientmedia.org
How Octopuses Won a Fight Against Factory Farming
An octopus farm proposal sparked global uproar from animal welfare advocates, scientists and ordinary people – including one 9-year-old.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 02/09/2026
"We are seeing the erosion of public health care in [Alberta], and just yesterday we heard Quebec's premier say that she is interested in her province following down that same path [of privatization]." @alonghurst.bsky.social #PublicHealthCare #HealthcareForAll #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Health-care groups rally against 2-tier health care
Canadian and provincial health-care groups are calling on the federal government to stop Alberta from allowing physicians to practise in both public and private systems. As the CBC's Troy Charles expl...
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Lesli Bisgould @bisgould.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Dear fellow Canadians, I think we should stand behind our Prime Minister now.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 20/08/2026
New technology can detect pain in farm animals, but critics say it may do more to bolster the system than improve it. buff.ly/geIutaM
sentientmedia.org
AI Is Coming to Factory Farms. Will It Help the Animals or Just the Industry?
New technology can detect pain in farm animals, but critics say it may do more to bolster the system than improve it.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 20/08/2026
A brief primer on the harsh conditions animals and workers endure. buff.ly/mKm6L5C
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How Slaughterhouses Work: The Harsh Reality of Meat Production
A brief primer on the harsh conditions animals and workers endure.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 19/08/2026
There are roughly 31 billion chickens on planet Earth. Most of those birds are packed into cramped conditions of factory farms, and that population growth is accelerating the evolution and spread of pathogens. @byng.bsky.social reports: buff.ly/Kxx3dSy
sentientmedia.org
How Factory Farms Supercharge Harmful Bacteria
The rapid growth of chickens — now, 31 billion globally — has sped up pathogen evolution, boosting persistence, antibiotic resistance and spillover to humans.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 13/08/2026
Of all the human practices that are gradually destroying the environment, overconsumption is one of the most significant and least discussed. buff.ly/cC3Hq5J
sentientmedia.org
How Overconsumption Affects the Environment and Health, Explained
You likely contribute to overconsumption in ways you might not realize.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 14/08/2026
Critics responded to new rules excluding temporary residents and undocumented migrants from accessing Ontario’s social assistance by saying the Ford government is fuelling xenophobia.
thestar.com
Ford government accused of xenophobia for going after temporary residents, undocumented migrants on social assistance
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 13/08/2026
Dismissing the controversy, Doug Ford denied prior knowledge of a covert surveillance operation in which PC Party staff followed former Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie to Jamaica while she was on vacation.
thestar.com
Doug Ford shrugs off PC spying mission that followed Bonnie Crombie to Jamaica: ‘Stuff happens’
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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨 BREAKING: 6 more belugas have been removed from Marineland, heading to US aquariums that breed whales. Canada failed to prohibit breeding as a mandatory condition of the export permits, allowing these whales to remain trapped in the cruel cycle of captivity & commercial breeding 👎
A beluga is suspended in a harness above a shipping container. Workers in blue shirts and helmets are guiding the animal. The background shows green foliage.
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Lesli Bisgould @bisgould.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If You Weren’t Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
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Opinion | If You Weren’t Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks (Gift Article)
If there was ever a time to consider halting development of A.I., it’s now.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 12/08/2026
Five former chairs of a watchdog committee say the Species at Risk Act will become “meaningless” and “merely paper protection” if the government follows through on proposed changes to the act. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
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Scientists Warn Carney’s Changes Will Bring ‘Wilful Extinction’ | The Tyee
Proposed amendments to make building ports and pipelines easier could destroy entire species.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And there's stuff we humans can do to stay indoors, use air filters, wear N95s, but what about these lovely neighbors I saw last night?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We don't have a badger problem. We have a dairy cow problem. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Private equity is price gouging firefighters now. Yes, you read that right. Firefighters. Is this the most evil thing they've done yet?
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Richard Brooks @richardbrooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hey #Toronto. It's hot, humid. Are you running your AC? Would you like it to be free? In the UK & Australia, it is, for hours every day because of an overabundance of solar & wind power. Too good to be true? Nope. @thestar.com #energysky #greensky @stand.earth www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
thestar.com
They get free power to run air conditioning and charge EVs. Here’s what Canada can learn from the global push for free electricity
Australia and the U.K. have more solar and wind power than their electrical systems know what to do with — so they’re giving it away.
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 10/08/2026
New technology can detect pain in farm animals, but critics say it may do more to bolster the system than improve it. buff.ly/zddjDoV
sentientmedia.org
AI Is Coming to Factory Farms. Will It Help the Animals or Just the Industry?
New technology can detect pain in farm animals, but critics say it may do more to bolster the system than improve it.
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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Call to action from tree defenders: 💩 Yuck! Complicity in border violence really stinks! ☎️🚽☎️🚽☎️🚽 Call Stamback Services Monday Aug. 10 between 10am-1pm PT! They are the only provider of portapotties for this section of the wall. Tell them to end their contract with Fisher Sand & Gravel immediately
Flier showing a blue port-a-potty with yellow fluid shooting out from both sides. Phone Zap: Clog the Line! Tell Stamback Services to stop providing portapotties for workers at the border wall! Don't let them poop in peace! Call Monday 8/10 from 10 am - 1 pm.
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Lesli Bisgould @bisgould.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
www.thestar.com/business/fir...
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First Nations chiefs in B.C. call on Carney, Smith, to halt pipeline advancement
A group that represents numerous First Nations across British Columbia is calling on Ottawa and Alberta's government to halt efforts to advance the West Coast pipeline, saying expanding the oil
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Lesli Bisgould @bisgould.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sure seems like an odd time for new oil pipelines.
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The answer to homelessness isn't institutionalization — whether that's through forced treatment or jail — it's by ensuring livable incomes and affordable housing. Period. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ontario plans to reopen Brantford jail to expand correctional system capacity | CBC News
Ontario Solicitor General Michael Kerzner says the province is looking at the feasibility of reopening the Brantford jail as a way to help add capacity to a strained correctional system.
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
We already have involuntary treatment in Ontario. My cousin was forced into it multiple times; she died anyway. This isn't a silver bullet — it's a rights violation that isn't backed by evidence. Let alone because drug treatment continues to be unregulated in ON. www.qpbriefing.com/news/ontario...
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Ontario's big-city mayors to endorse mandatory addiction care, ramping up pressure on Ford government
QP Briefing has learned that Ontario’s Big City Mayors will publicly endorse mandatory treatment at their next meeting, scheduled to run from Aug. 16-19 in Ottawa.
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Lesli Bisgould @bisgould.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It is beyond comprehension.
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
These irreplaceable old growth forests continue to be logged across British Columbia. Over 1,200 people have been arrested trying to keep them standing. There is no time to waste. Protect the Irreplaceable. #ActOnClimate #climate #nature @bcndp #bcpoli #bcgov Pic @TJWattPhoto
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