Theoria

Two decisions, relating to the monitor’s report, have been released. The first deals with two issues; viz., a motion by Linda MacKinnon of the “Association for the Reform of the Toronto Humane Society [ART]” for leave to become an intervening party (denied) and costs relating to the monitor’s report (to be paid by the THS). [...]

For those interested in such things, the OSPCA has been granted a wide range of relief under the Charities Accounting Act with respect to the THS. In effect, this means that the OSPCA controls money and the animals at the THS. (Paragraph 45 is especially chilling.) This is the first legal account of evidence collected [...]

From Michael Pollan’s essay, “An Animal’s Place“:
A deep Puritan streak pervades animal rights activists, an abiding discomfort not only with our animality, but with animal’s animality too.
This is offered, I think, as a critique–the point being made by a “literary journalist” is often rather obscure, notwithstanding the rather plain prose. The problem, however, is that [...]