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Chuckwagon race safety up for review after six horses die during Stampede event

  • Red Deer Advocate
  • 2019-07-15
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/news/chuckwagon-race-safety-up-for-review-after-six-horses-die-during-stampede-event-6773739

Chuckwagon race safety up for review after six horses die during Stampede event

  • National Observer
  • 2019-07-15
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/07/15/news/chuckwagon-race-safety-review-after-six-horses-die-during-stampede-event

Total of 6 Calgary Stampede chuckwagon horses dead after 3 more put down Sunday

  • CBC
  • 2019-07-15
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/total-of-6-calgary-stampede-chuckwagon-horses-dead-after-3-more-put-down-sunday-1.5211803

2019 Calgary Stampede ties as 2nd deadliest year for chuckwagon races

  • CBC
  • 2019-07-15
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-stampede-animal-horse-deaths-total-1.5212439

Advocates want charges in horse deaths during Calgary Stampede chuckwagon races

  • Victoria News
  • 2019-07-15
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.vicnews.com/news/advocates-want-charges-in-horse-deaths-during-calgary-stampede-chuckwagon-races-58373

Animal advocates want chuckwagon races cancelled after 3 horse deaths

  • CBC
  • 2019-07-13
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/animal-rights-activists-protest-stampede-horse-deaths-1.5210855

Do chuckwagon races amount to ‘cruel’ abuse or save horses from slaughter? Here’s what you said

  • CBC
  • 2019-07-12
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-stampede-chuckwagon-races-horse-continues-1.5210011

Dear Calgary: It’s time for the Stampede to evolve

  • The Globe and Mail
  • 2019-07-12
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-dear-calgary-its-time-for-the-stampede-to-evolve/

University of Calgary studying stressors, injury in Stampede bulls

  • Global News
  • 2019-07-08
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://globalnews.ca/news/5471107/university-of-calgary-stress-injury-stampede-bulls-rodeo/

Researchers study how bucking bulls are really doing at Calgary Stampede

  • CBC
  • 2019-07-08
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bucking-bull-welfare-stampede-1.5204545

Should the Calgary Stampede ban animal events?

  • CBC
  • 2019-07-05
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/post/should-the-calgary-stampede-ban-animal-events

Canadian veterinarians should condemn the Calgary Stampede — full stop

  • CBC
  • 2019-07-05
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/calgary-stampede-1.5200765

Injured horse put down after Calgary Stampede Chuckwagon race

  • CBC
  • 2018-07-12
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/injured-horse-destroyed-put-down-calgary-stampede-chuckwagon-races-race-rangeland-1.4743924

Opinion: Stampede may be legally ‘humane’, but that doesn’t mean animals are protected

  • Vancouver Sun
  • 2017-07-16
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-stampede-may-be-legally-humane-but-that-doesnt-mean-animals-are-protected

Every summer, there’s a chance the Calgary Stampede’s chuckwagon races will end tragically

  • National Observer
  • 2016-07-15
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/07/15/news/every-summer-theres-chance-calgary-stampedes-chuckwagon-races-will-end-tragically

Activist wants CBC to stop covering Calgary Stampede

  • Radio Canada International
  • 2016-07-14
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/07/14/activist-wants-cbc-stop-covering-calgary-stampede/

Opinion: Rodeo animals suffer to amuse the audience

  • Vancouver Sun
  • 2016-07-14
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://vancouversun.com/opinion/opinion-rodeo-animals-suffer-to-amuse-the-audience

Calgary Stampede: Torturing cows and horses is wrong, outdated and illegal

  • The Globe and Mail
  • 2016-07-07
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/calgary-stampede-torturing-cows-and-horses-is-wrong-outdated-and-illegal/article30788704/

Calgary Stampede: Why horses die on the ‘half-mile of hell’

  • BBC
  • 2015-07-14
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33511970

Animal rights group doubtful Stampede will improve safety for chuckwagon horses

  • Calgary Herald
  • 2015-07-13
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/animal-rights-group-doubtful-stampede-will-improve-safety-for-chuckwagon-horses

Tie-down roper disqualified from Calgary Stampede over alleged mistreatment of horse

  • CTV News
  • 2015-07-09
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/tie-down-roper-disqualified-from-calgary-stampede-over-alleged-mistreatment-of-horse-1.2462320

Calgary Stampede perpetuates tradition of animal abuse

  • Greener Ideal
  • 2014-08-17
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://greenerideal.com/news/environment/0716-calgary-stampede-animal-abuse/

Tommy Lee not the first star to have a beef with Stampede

  • Global News
  • 2013-04-27
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://globalnews.ca/news/515796/tommy-lee-not-the-first-star-to-have-a-beef-with-stampede/

Chuckwagon carnage: Calgary Stampede blames the horse!

  • Rabble
  • 2012-07-14
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://rabble.ca/arts/chuckwagon-carnage-calgary-stampede-blames-horse/

Protest groups call for end to Calgary Stampede rodeo

  • CBC
  • 2012-07-14
  • Violence Against Animals
  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/protest-groups-call-for-end-to-calgary-stampede-rodeo-1.1261274
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Settler Colonial Place-making in Alberta: Sexualized Violence, Extractivism, and Cowboy Culture is a research project funded by an Insight Development Grant awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2018-2024).

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One of the ways that settler colonialism might ally itself with innocence is by impelling settlers (ourselves included) to offer land acknowledgements. The logic, of course, is that if settlers acknowledge Indigenous land and sovereignty, then we must be ‘on their team,’ and if we are on their team, then we must not be so bad: we must, in other words, be innocent. Read more