What's your problem with Calgary? And don't give me all this Canadian Texas mumbo-jumbo. We've elected Liberal Mayors for over 20 years and our latest Mayor is Canada's first ever Muslim mayor of a major Canadian city plus he bats for his own team. Doubleplusgoodliberalcred.

Really? The stampede torture's and kills animals? Because I've been going to the stampede and I've never seen an animal tortured or killed for mere sport. Yes, accidents happen and animals have had to be humanely euthanized, but people die doing their own ridiculous sports all the time. The Calgary stampede has a number of veterinarians and the Calgary Humane Society who work with the animals daily to make sure they receive the best care possible. The Stampede has also put in a number of new measures to ensure the safety of all animals that you should perhaps inform yourself of before spouting out some garbage you heard for another uninformed source.

I learned about the murder of 6 horses last year through the main stream media. Murder (2nd degree) in civil law is a charge made possible by a person or persons who engage in conduct towards another person that results in their death and that occured as a result of disregard for the welfare of the victim. animals for their
There are no `accidents' in the way that you'd like to use the term to excuse what has happend most years at the stampede. It's a result of disregard for the welfare of animals that occurs in a primitve, atavistic blood sport.
Working with the SPCA doesn't buy them anything because that's done for public relations purposes that will allow them to continue their cruelty.
The fact that you've never seen an animal killed is irrelevant; the deaths are puiblicly documented facts.
Like most morally rotten human activities (e.g. the fox hunt in England), those who are addicted to it and are so morally obtuse as to not recognize their complicity in the thing will think up all sorts of reasons and excuses not to change their behavior.
Any stampede event that involves using animals in a way that causes them unreasonable discomfort and/or physical harm should be made illegal. That would mean that people who have nothing better to do will either stop patronizing the event or attend only a `cleaned up' version.