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OCTOBER 17, 2008

A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. Tags: seal hunters humane society. That's good news. Lawrence, not far from Cape Breton.

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APRIL 26, 2009

Thanks to Animal Rights Person for the heads up on this. EU nations agree to ban on seal products * Ban would lead to trade clash with Norway and Canada * Final approvals seen as a formality. Tags: canada norway europe trade seals. As of last Friday. *

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AUGUST 8, 2009

Now that the species is listed in the US as "threatened," hunters can't import the dead body parts (aka hunting "trophies") in from Canada. Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" insert crying baby picture here.)

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MARCH 3, 2009

The Vancouver-based animal rights group Lifeforce wants the Vancouver Aquarium to free Daisy the porpoise. Tags: porpoise captivity canada aquariums vancouver. Here is a video from the group.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

think it’s an extreme animal rights organization that wants to close all zoos,” Steve Feldman {AZA spokesman} said. The latter comment is in reference to Zoocheck Canada , a zoo watchdog demanding the independent investigation. Tags: zoos canada. They’re basically a bunch of ambulance chasers.”

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FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The Inuit harvest, or hunt, polar bears in Canada. "In In the past, Inuit always considered the WWF Canada as our friend," {Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.'s He said that a lot of Inuit feel betrayed by the animal rights movement, and by some biologists when it comes to polar bears. But not with polar bears."

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Lanthier, a veterinarian and walrus researcher who took the helm in Calgary two years ago, says the cancellation of the polar bears exhibit might please some animal-rights extremists, but the reality is a blow to Canada's white bears. One thing for sure -- all of the animals in the zoo will die eventually," said Lanthier. "We

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