Vegan peanut butter vanilla green shake

Laura Wright is a vegan cookbook author and blogger based in the Niagara region of southern Ontario, Canada. You must try her Peanut Butter Vanilla Green Shake. When you see the ingredients you may think we have sprung a leak here at Tuesday's Horse, but please be assured that this is one of the most fantastically fun…

Animal rights activists decry Ontario bill that would limit farm protests

ONTARIO BILL 156 Proposed law hikes fines for trespassing on farms, prohibits interfering with animals Amanda Pfeffer reporting for CBC News reports: Animal rights groups have begun protesting and petitioning against Ontario Bill 156 — a law aimed at curbing activism against farms and farming practices. The Security From Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act, 2019  was…

Ojibwe spirit horses grow by one with birth of male foal

Birth of foal lifts 'spirits' at TJ Stables While spirit horses typically like to give birth in secret, owner Terry Jenkins said she had “anticipated (the mom) was going to foal soon.” “So we brought her up to the front so we could keep a closer watch on her,” Jenkins said.She added there was a…

Child gives Christmas money to Thoroughbred charity

Cross-posted from Off-Track Thoroughbreds WRITTEN BY SUSAN SALK The night before Christmas, 10-year-old Ellah Dubeau-Kielty wasn’t thinking of gifts from Santa. Not this year. Instead she was consumed with thoughts for the sweet T’breds residing at Mindy Lovell’s Ontario rescue, and she worried about whether they’d have enough hay and grain to make it through…

OSPCA probing reports of emaciated horses in vet’s barn

UPDATE: We do not know if the allegations in the Toronto Star report below are true or untrue. We have received a number of emails and comments defending the report since posting it. We have also received emails and comments defending Kopinak, stating the Toronto Star report (below) has no basis in fact, that Kopanik…

Horses put down in Canada as racing industry declines

What a tragic state of affairs in Canada. The impact of the anticipated termination by the Ontario government in 2013 of a program that sent $345-million from slot-machine revenues to race tracks in 2011 is being felt in 2012. Already three of 17 race tracks have closed. Ontario is throwing somewhat of a lifeline to…

Horse meat: A delicacy to die for?

CANADIAN HORSE DEFENCE COALITION PRESS RELEASE Orangeville, Ontario (Aug. 22, 2012) -- On July 9, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to an Ohio feedlot operator who sells horses for slaughter. The man was duly reprimanded for selling a drug-tainted thoroughbred horse to a Canadian slaughterhouse. Evidently, the Canadian Food…

Ontario Finance Minister’s comments over funding cuts anger horse-racing executive

There is no mention how the cancellation of the Slots at Racetrack program, which is to end March 2013, will impact the lives of the horses utilized by the Standardbred and Thoroughbred racing industry. However, talk of breeders euthanizing foals, and owners considering sending a number of their horses to slaughter, is already being reported.…

Foals euthanized in Canada as provincial funding of harness racing ends

From QMI via SimcoReformer.ca The decision to end provincial funding for Ontario's harness racing may kill more than the industry - it's resulting in the death of an unknown number of this year's crop of new foals. QMI Agency spoke to a number of sources who say breeders are now are euthanizing their foals moments…

Follow the cash, follow the blood: horse racing in Canada

Guest Post by CYNTHIA D'ERRICO Author of "Ground Manners. A Novel." “From what I see here, the regulations on those bloody machines are curbing revenues—and turning Blue Bonnets into a huge tavern . . . with state-controlled gambling . . . It could bring the industry to its knees. . . Where’s the cash going?...Follow…