Vegan Society of Canada

Vegan philosophy and lifestyle

We are a registered non-profit corporation. Our vision can be explained in many pages or a few words: to end the exploitation of all animals, including human animals. Our main way to achieve this is to promote the adoption of a vegan lifestyle.

The promotion of a vegan lifestyle achieves our dual charitable purpose of protecting and maintaining both the public's health and the environment. We do this through various means like public outreach, articles, information sessions, etc. As a member of the Vegan World Alliance (VWA) we cooperate with others when appropriate to achieve our vision and mission.

Unfortunately, so much funding goes towards small companion animals often because even though donors would like to help all animals, there is no Canada wide charitable organization to do so. Please join us in our efforts to benefit all animals, including human animals, and the environment through a vegan lifestyle.

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Speaking for veganism

Do you need someone to speak about veganism? "Lettuce" know and we'll be there

Vegan certification

We offer low cost vegan product certification and free certification to qualified small businesses. Our certification process is rigorous and contains various techniques to ensure manufacturing is free from animal products and by-products. Contact us for more details.

Vegan news

Keeping you updated on important news to vegans in Canada.

Linking communities

Linking the hundreds of individual communities throughout Canada to provide communion, communication and community among vegans as well as seemless transition for vegans on the move.

Local group hosting

Thinking of forming a non profit? Instead, consider coming under the umbrella of the Vegan Society of Canada with an address like ottawa.vegancanada.org. Instead of spending time with Revenue Canada, spend time helping animals.

Vegan financial services

We are developing vegan financial services like daily banking and investments ETF. Contact us and add your name to the waiting list and be notified as funds become available. It is our mandate to ensure that our savings are used as loans for people and businesses that are compatible with the vegan philosophy as stated above.

Legal workshop

We aim to develop legal workshops so that people across the country can safely exercise their right to demonstrate peacefully and intervene or disrupt when the law permits. Contact us for more details or to help make this a reality.

Media inquiries

On a deadline to file a piece and need quick turnaround on a vegan related topic? Don’t hesitate to contact us and we will do our best to assist you. To ensure a prompt response, please inform us of your deadline when you contact us.

Events

We are implementing new requirements to insure events align with our vision and mission. If you are an event organizer and want to be added to our list please contact us.

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Volunteer

We believe that it is still possible to run a charitable organization with volunteers and want to give everyone the opportunity to experience the practice of giving. Therefore we need your help, if you want to contribute there is a place for you. We are looking to fill many roles like social media poster, committee members, outreach program, journalist, editor, translator (french), farmer, researcher, Msc. & PhD. student in the broad field of psychology and neuroscience, administrative assistant, executive assistant, legal, news publications, public relations, public speaker, graphic designer, artist, etc...

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Vegan Communities in British Columbia

Kelowna Vegan Supporters | Whistler Vegans | Vancouver Vegans

Vegan Communities in Alberta

Edmonton Vegan Community

Vegan Communities in Saskatchewan

Vegans of Regina

Vegan Communities in Manitoba

Winnipeg Vegan Community

Vegan Communities in Ontario

Vegan Alliance of Thunder Bay | Toronto Vegans

Vegan Communities in Quebec

Végane Montréal - Montreal Vegan

Vegan Communities in New Brunswick

Fredericton | Miramichi

Vegan Communities in Nova Scotia

Annapolis Valley | Cape Breton | Nova Scotia

Vegan Communities in Prince Edward Island

Vegan Communities in Newfoundland

NL Vegan | Vegan Community Potluck

Vegan Communities in Atlantic Canada

Vegans of Atlantic Canada

Help Us

We want to thank all our generous donors so far. The Vegan Society of Canada has been running on 100% volunteer power since the beginning. All donations are used only for the benefit of the organization. No volunteers, including directors, receive salaries or any other forms of payment. We are a registered non-profit corporation and are awaiting our charitable status by Revenue Canada.

There is no donation too big or too small. You can send us donation via Paypal. For legacy giving or any additional ways to donate please contact us.

Latest News

January 2022

Exploitation in the cocoa industry

Vegan Society of Canada News, January 14th 2022

September 2021 was the 20th anniversary of the failure of The Harkin-Engel Protocol. Twenty years later, most chocolate remains unsuitable for vegans and we will ban from vegan certification Nestlé’s plant-based KitKat...

December 2021

Thank you: An overview of our work in 2021 and a look at 2022

Vegan Society of Canada News, December 23rd 2021

Thank you to all our donors and volunteers for your continued support throughout 2021. What follows is a brief update of our activities and a forecast for 2022...

Sustainable population

Vegan Society of Canada News, December 16th 2021

When we discuss our vision, we usually encourage everyone to end animal exploitation in their own life. However, it is part of a bigger equation that, overly simplified, looks like this...

November 2021

We are banning Lush products

Vegan Society of Canada News, November 15th 2021

We have written in the past about the serious issues with vegan labelling that threaten the achievement of our vision. As we explained in more detail in our ISO-23662 ban article, it is incorrect to think that the most popular certification schemes are the most stringent...

October 2021

Veganism

Vegan Society of Canada News, October 15th 2021

As we discussed in one of our articles, there is the possibility that veganism as practiced today will not bring about our vision. You may have noticed that our vision is vegan agnostic. Our commitment to our vision is steadfast. We hope the following analysis and discussion...

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Come and help us shape the future of veganism

18 TTY VEGANISM (+1-888-983-4264)

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