Our feature interview is with lawyer Rebeka Breder, who specializes in animal law. Rebeka has been passionate about advancing the welfare of non-human animals since the age of 13, and since then, has volunteered and worked for various animal welfare and non-profit organizations. Today, Rebeka is a litigation lawyer at Boughton Law Corporation in Vancouver and has also developed a practice in Animal Law. Rebeka recently created the first Canadian Bar Association Animal Law sec

Some privately owned pet cremation businesses in B.C. are taking advantage of their grieving customers in the name of profit by charging for individual cremations, but returning generic animal ashes instead. Six crematoriums on Vancouver Island and Metro Vancouver failed a recent undercover test of their procedures. In each case, the facility returned the wrong remains. The investigation was paid for the Pet Cremation Alliance, a group of animal lovers and pet industry expert

May 2012 - Rebeka Breder's research used to ban shark fin products in first city in BC. Her memorandum is used as guidance across the BC

If someone, say the SPCA, wanted to appeal a FIRB decision to the court by way of judicial review, the courts will normally defer to the dec

Grieving pet owners who paid for private cremations but received generic ashes instead...