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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures

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But the seal industry doesn't care. Despite that, a Quebec-based seal fur company has begun championing Pibarot's hypothesis, seeing the research as a buoy for Canada's beleaguered seal harvest. They'll exploit anything to try to save their barbaric trade and, if they can use guilt, even better. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.

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Canada Fears Oil Spills in its Own Waters

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They should fear oil spills because, I'm sorry, Canada is not the best in terms of environmental safeguards, laws or requirements. The industry is not as developed, but it's heading in that direction. Tags: canada oil spill oil drilling pollution. It would therefore benefit the Canadians to prepare.

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New Horse Slaughter Rules to Appear in Canada

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The Animal Welfare Institute thinks these new rules could be a blow to the horse slaughter industry, but only if actually implemented. Tags: canada meat horse slaughter Slaughterhouse.

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A Post Chock-full of Bird News

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A new report describes the state of North America’s boreal forests, and the importance they hold for birds, concluding that at least half of this natural resource should be kept off-limits from industrial development. Also from the Philly area, where Canada Geese are concerned, where is the love ?).

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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And, few insights into the economic side of what is essentially a profitable industry. Each decade of the 20th century is then explored, taking a close look at the development of wild bird feeding as an industry and a hobby, grounding trends within larger world events. But, not a lot of information about how this national passion (52.8

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Cape May Warbler is a Bad Name and Should be Replaced

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A thrill to see, especially to see well, the Cape May Warbler is most commonly spotted as a passage migrant or as a winter resident, considering that its breeding area is the spruce-fir forests of Canada and some of the northernmost parts of the United States.

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What does the Keystone XL Pipeline have to do with Birds?

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Such is the case with the Keystone XL pipeline, which, if built, is slated to bring some of the “dirtiest,” carbon-rich oil on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the US Gulf Coast. It could determine the fate of the Canadian tar-sands industry and, with it, the future well-being of the planet.”

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