01/11/2025
Please share this important article about Red Collar Day. Dog shoot days still happen in many communities, especially around this time of year. This isn't about cruelty. It's about a chronic lack of access to services like vet care that were deemed essential during Covid.
Access to essential services, like vet care, shouldn't be left to volunteers and philanthropy to deliver. In fact, Canada has a fiduciary duty of care to First Nations that it failed to deliver. Provinces and their SPCAs also have some reconciling to do too.
Increased ACCESS, an Indigenous-led nonprofit that helps with animal management solutions, has created a new day to raise awareness about public health and safety inequities in Indigenous communities across Canada. Nov. 1, 2025, marks the first Red Collar Day, a national day for truth, healing and s...