By reluctantly agreeing to a ban on keeping cetaceans in captivity, the Vancouver Aquarium hopes to be able to “get on with” its expansion plans, which will no long… ...

The Vancouver park board voted Monday night to ban new cetaceans at the Vancouver Aquarium, a move the aquarium says threatens the work of its marine mammal rescue program but one animal-rights ...

Supporters of a Vancouver Park Board bylaw change that would ban new cetaceans from the Vancouver Aquarium arrive at the meeting approving the changes on May 15, 2017. (David Horemans/CBC) ...

The Vancouver Aquarium and the city's park board have been locked in a legal battle since last summer over a bylaw banning the display of cetaceans. Documents filed in the case provide fascinating ...

The decision was made with relative ease, with a few notable caveats: that a by-law relating to captive cetaceans be removed from the aquarium's 20-year lease to allow the possibility of ...

Vancouver was the first aquarium to display an orca in 1964 but also the first in the world to stop capturing wild cetaceans in 1996. Bjossa, the aquarium's last orca, was sent to SeaWorld in 2001.

The Vancouver Aquarium ranks on par or above average in every category in which it has been compared to similar facilities in North America. That’s the takeaway from a July 23 report that’s to ...

VANCOUVER—Whales, dolphins and porpoises will no longer be kept at Vancouver’s aquarium, a move that animal advocates say is a step toward the end of cetaceans in captivity. The Vancouver ...

Qila, a beluga whale at the Vancouver Aquarium receives a freshly prepared herring from trainer Katie Becker during a feeding at the aquarium in Vancouver, B.C., Wednesday, Oct.19, 2011. The first ...

She said she hopes the death of Hana can serve to reopen the discussion on whether the Vancouver Aquarium should be allowed to continue holding dolphins and belugas at all. “I hope that it opens up ...