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End Of The Year EPIC HOLIDAY VEGAN PRIZE PACKS!!(week three)

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Two prize baskets delivered to two lucky VegOttawa Association members (congratulations!). We are now on to WEEK THREE!!!

This basket contains just as many amazing vegan gifts! Check them out below. (We’ll post a picture of the arranged basket soon 🙂 )

Total value of over $250 cdn!!

You just need to be a paid member(link below) and you will be automatically entered in the draw. No strings attached.

This is the final Holiday Prize Basket we’ll be giving away, so if you aren’t a member yet (only $20 per year) or need to renew then head over to our membership page and consider joining before the new year (check out all the member discounts while you’re there). You can also purchase a membership for someone else as a nice holiday gift.

The winner of this prize basket will be selected on Sunday, December 20th, so you have until then to buy your membership and be automatically entered in to the draw.

Ok, Drumrolllllllllllll,

PRIZE PACK #3 includes:

1 x Kyan Cuisine voucher $95
1 x Alice Restaurant gift card $80
1 x Hot For Food “All Day” (Pre-Order recipe book), Lauren Toyota
1 x Strawberry Blonde Bakery Box of treats
1 x Gabrielle Peterka Hair Co. gift card $20
1 x “All Things Holiday” Printed eCookbook, Melanie Boudens
1 x Van Tran Photography gift card $50
1 x Moo Free Holiday Assorted Chocolate Box & Trinket Tray from Feline Cafe and More!

SIGN UP FOR MEMBERSHIP!!

NEW DISCOUNT! Hippie Mylk – Ottawa’s Vegan Mylk Delivery

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HIPPIE MYLK is handcrafted with a base blend of organic Canadian oats and Ontario hemp hearts. Our mylk is activated, raw and unpasteurized and is blended without carrageenan, gums, fillers, and preservatives. Hippie Mylk is full of healthy enzymes and is a natural source of vitamins and minerals. Our mylk is packaged in glass jars that you can be reused or recycled, with an incentive discount for every bottle returned. We believe that delicious dairy-free and cruelty-free mylk should be easily available to everyone! *Please note: Our mylks are not fortified and are not meant to be used as a calcium, vitamin d or b12 supplement.

Hippie Mylk will now offer a 10% discount off all online oat mylk orders to VegOttawa Association members!
Check out their delicious flavours on their website (Maple, Dark Chocolate & Sea Salt, Turmeric & Black Pepper, Original, & more!)
THANK YOU Hippie Mylk!

  • Shake Shake Shake
  • Original Oat & Hemp Mylk Blend
  • Turmeric & Black Pepper Oat & Hemp Mylk Blend
  • Peppermint & Cacao Oat-Hemp Mylk Blend (Holiday Special)
  • Maple Oat & Hemp Mylk Blend
  • Dark Chocolate & Vancouver Sea Salt Oat & Hemp Mylk

THANK YOU TO ALL FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT! MORE DISCOUNTS ON THE WAY!

If you are not a VOA member yet or need to renew your membership, click here.

End Of The Year EPIC HOLIDAY VEGAN PRIZE PACKS!!(week two)

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Week One has passed, we selected a lucky VegOttawa Association member as a winner (congratulations!!), so now… on to WEEK TWO!!

This basket contains just as many amazing vegan gifts! Check them out below. (We’ll post a picture of the arranged basket soon 🙂 )

Total value of over $250 cdn!!

You just need to be a paid member(link below) and you will be automatically entered in the draw. No strings attached.

Next week we’ll be giving away another amazing prize pack similar to this one. So if you aren’t a member yet (only $20 per year) or need to renew then now would be a good time to head over to our membership page (check out all the member discounts while you’re there).

The winner will be selected on Sunday, December 13th, so you have until then to buy your membership and be entered in to the draw.

Ok, Drumrolllllllllllll,

PRIZE PACK #2 includes:

1 x Plant Prepped gift card $80
1 x Saaboon gift card $50
1 x Oh She Glows “For Dinner” (Hardcover recipe book), Angela Liddon
1 x Little Jo Berry’s Box of treats
1 x Chickpeas gift card $20
1 x Gabrielle Peterka Hair Co. gift card $20
1 x Sea Glass Films & Photography gift card $50
1 x Moo Free Holiday Assorted Chocolate Box & Trinket Tray from Feline Cafe and More!

SIGN UP FOR MEMBERSHIP!!

End Of The Year EPIC HOLIDAY VEGAN PRIZE PACKS!!(week one)

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It’s here…the last month of 2020! Can’t wait to move in to 2021? Yes, that’s understandable 😉 it was a long one….. BUT, before we get there let’s celebrate a bit and enjoy some vegan goodies!

We put together some prize packs made up of vegan meals, vegan snacks, vegan books, and more.

Total value of over $200 cdn!!

All you have to do is be a member to be entered in the draw. No strings attached.

Next week we’ll be giving away another amazing prize pack similar to this one. So if you aren’t a member yet or need to renew then now would be a good time to head over to our membership page (check out all the member discounts while you’re there).

Ok, Drumrolllllllllllll,

PRIZE PACK #1 includes:

1 x Naturally Vero Meal Delivery gift card $80
1 x Copper Branch gift card $50
1 x “Vegan Bodybuilder’s Cookbook”, Sam Shorkey, Amy Longard(recipes)
1 x Cinnaholic Box of baked goods
1 x Hot For Food Dessert recipe eBook
1 x Gabrielle Peterka Hair Co. gift card $20
1 x Moo Free Holiday Assorted Chocolate Box & Trinket Tray from Feline Cafe and More!

SIGN UP FOR MEMBERSHIP!!

NEW DISCOUNT! Van Tran Photography

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Van Tran Photography specializes in Portraiture and Headshots. Based in Ottawa, Van Tran also has a side project called “The Vegan Camera” to raise funds in support of local Animal Sanctuaries. Check out the photos below and visit their website to see more amazing work.

Van Tran Photography will now offer a 10% discount on photography services to all VegOttawa Association members! Members can also choose to have their discount matched for a total of 20% and donated to a local Animal Sanctuary. THANK YOU VAN!

THANK YOU TO ALL FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT! MORE DISCOUNTS ON THE WAY!

If you are not a VOA member yet or need to renew your membership, click here.

MELANIE BOUDENS TOFU PARMESAN & CHEESECAKE COOKING CLASS | Free Giveaway For VOA Members!

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The wonderful Melanie Boudens (Grow Your Roots) is offering an online vegan cooking class this Thursday November 5th, 2020. We are giving away free admission passes to VegOttawa Association members. This should be fun!

If you are already a VegOttawa Association member and interested then just send us a message at vegottawa@gmail.com, and we will send you a discount code. As simple as that!

If you are not a member yet, then now could be a good time to sign up/renew to get a $16 value right back off your $20 annual membership cost. 

"Join me virtually to learn all about Tofu! How to properly prepare it, bake with it and cook with it so you can LOVE tofu too! Class begins on ZOOM at 1100AM on Thursday November 5th 2020. 
Class is approximately an hour and a half (little less time or maybe a little more, but you can leave whenever you want!) 
Price includes the virtual cooking class as well as four recipes crafted by Chef Melanie: 
Tofu Chick'un Marinade, Tofu Parmesan, San Marzano Tomato Sauce, Cheesecake. 
All recipes are vegan and can be modified to be gluten free. None of the recipes contain nuts." 

OK, LET’S SEE THE COOKING CLASS PAGE. Sign up/Enter Promo code here, https://www.melanieboudens.com/product-page/tofu-cooking-class-2-thursday-nov-5

NEW DISCOUNT! Gabrielle Peterka Hair Co.

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Bottom half of your face covered up with a mask, while the top half is covered in neglected pandemic hair that is now in need of professional help? Don’t feel shame. Life is full of ups and downs, just like your hair.

So anyway…there is a new vegan salon in town and we’re happy to announce a partnership with them!

GABRIELLE PETERKA HAIR CO. will now offer a 10% discount to all VegOttawa Association members on all in-store services! Here’s a list of the services you’ll save on. The salon is located at 195 Clearview Ave. in Ottawa and is totally vegan.

To celebrate this new partnership we will be giving away 3 GIFT CARDS (value-$20ea. That’s the full cost of an annual membership!) to 3 lucky VOA members. If you don’t have a VegOttawa Association membership card or just have to renew, then sign up today to be eligible for the prizes. Winners will be announced tomorrow(Saturday September 5, 2020). All members will be automatically entered into the draw!

Sign up for/renew your VOA annual membership here.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT! MORE DISCOUNTS ON THE WAY!

OTTAWA VEGAN & VEGAN FRIENDLY BUSINESS DIRECTORY

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VegOttawa Friends,

Hope everyone is doing alright and all of your friends and family are staying safe and healthy.

We have been hard at work trying to think of ways we can best support and help our local vegan(/friendly) businesses through this difficult period. One of the ideas we had was to put together an updated business directory for the website in hopes that it would help consumers connect with businesses while many of their hours and services provided have been altered.

So from our website menu, you will now see “Ottawa’s Vegan & Vegan Friendly Business Directory“. Our partners, with whom you as a member receive a discount, are listed with photos and their logos which take you to their respective websites. We will continue to make improvements to this page (still tidying and simplifying) and add businesses to get a more comprehensive directory together.

You can now do and get just about anything in a vegan, cruelty-free form while living in Ottawa. We hope this makes it easier for anyone (vegan or not) to connect with the multitude of incredible services and products offered in our city.

Suggestions and feedback is always welcome. Feel free to contact us via our website contact page.

Take care, stay safe, enjoy the sun,

VOA Team

Moving Towards a Vegan Option in Canada

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By Carolyn Harris

Hello everyone!

I wanted to give you all a quick update. You may remember two of my previous blog posts, letting you know about a petition calling on the Canadian government “to require public canteens under federal jurisdiction to provide a vegan option, and to raise this issue and work with provincial and territorial counterparts to require the same at all levels of government.” In practice, this means that a vegan option would be required to be served in all public schools, hospitals, prisons, and other public institutions. This is an important step that our country can take towards animal rights and vegan rights. A similar law is already in place in Portugal.

I didn’t start the petition, but I signed it and mentioned it on my blogs because this issue matters a lot to me.

In total, the petition received 3106 signatures from the public, and it was presented to the House of Commons on February 7, 2018. The government’s response was disappointing—basically, they implied that they don’t plan on taking action on this issue.

Fortunately, however, the dedicated vegan advocates who are working on this issue are not giving up! A new organization, Vegan Option Canada, has been founded to advocate for this new law. Vegan Option Canada is currently running two versions of their petition: an official paper petition and an unofficial, supplementary online petition. You can sign both, as the signatures for each petition are counted separately. You can access the online petition directly by clicking here. Check out Vegan Option Canada’s website to learn more about this issue and to find a paper petition near you. Alternatively, you can order sheets of the paper petition so that you can collect signatures yourself!

I feel quite confident that this initiative can succeed. Let’s work together and make it happen!

Update on Petition Calling on Canadian Government to Provide A Vegan Option at Public Canteens

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By Carolyn Harris

Recently I received an e-mail from the House of Commons Electronic Petitions website notifying me that on February 7th, 2018, petition e-1205 was presented in the House of Commons. The e-mail goes on to say, “You will be notified once a government response has been tabled.”

This is a petition that I mentioned on this blog previously—it was calling on the federal government “to require public canteens under federal jurisdiction to provide a vegan option, and to raise this issue and work with provincial and territorial counterparts to require the same at all levels of government.” You can see the full text of the petition here, although it is no longer open to signatures.

On the House of Commons website, it is mentioned that this topic was brought up as well, but it doesn’t say if or how anyone responded to it. You can see what I am talking about here.

I am looking forward to seeing how the government responds. I will post on this blog again to let you know how they responded once I receive further information on the subject!