{"id":21589,"date":"2019-07-31T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=21589"},"modified":"2019-07-27T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T14:37:17","slug":"canada-passes-free-willy-bill-outlaws-whale-dolphin-captivity-and-breeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/31\/canada-passes-free-willy-bill-outlaws-whale-dolphin-captivity-and-breeding\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada passes &#8216;Free Willy&#8217; bill; outlaws whale, dolphin captivity and breeding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/meaww.com\/free-willy-bill-law-ban-dolphin-whale-captive-breeding-canada-parliament\">Media Entertainment Arts WorldWide<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A bill to ban whale and dolphin captivity in Canada is finally set to become law after a sinuous process that took over three years to reach a conclusion.<\/p><p>The House of Commons passed Bill S-203 on Monday morning. The legislation will help outlaw captive breeding and the import or export of whales, their embryos, or sperm, Canadian paper National Post reports&#8230;<\/p><p>As of now, only two facilities in Canada keep whales captive. These include the Vancouver Aquarium and Marineland, a theme park in Niagara Falls, Ontario.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Canada.com &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/o.canada.com\/news\/politics\/free-willy-bill-to-end-whale-captivity-in-canada-set-to-become-law\/wcm\/089e7c92-5e09-4fe1-8f9b-e9b9d6499cf7\">&#8216;Free Willy&#8217; bill to end whale captivity in Canada set to become law<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Media Entertainment Arts WorldWide: A bill to ban whale and dolphin captivity in Canada is finally set to become law after a sinuous process that took over three years to reach a conclusion. The House of Commons passed Bill S-203 on Monday morning. The legislation will help outlaw captive breeding and the import or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[832,2],"tags":[13366,13365,3642,5749,13364,13367,1614,41,10149,4317],"class_list":["post-21589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-bill-s-203","tag-breeding","tag-captivity","tag-dolphin","tag-free-willy","tag-media-entertainment-arts-worldwide","tag-national-post","tag-niagara-falls","tag-vancouver-aquarium","tag-whale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21591,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions\/21591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}