Critter News

JANUARY 2, 2009

The amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations, which include strengthened federal enforcement, come just over a month after newly appointed federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Canada is "going straight ahead for the 2009 hunt. The sealers must now feel the seal's cranium to make sure it is broken. We're proceeding as usual." "No

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I didn’t get a shot of the Marbled Godwit near Seal Rocks in flight but I wanted you to be able to see the bird with wings outstretched so Mia came to my rescue. The Marbled Godwit breeds in the grasslands of the northern United States and southern Canada, with small isolated nesting populations in southwestern James Bay and Alaska 1.

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Critter News

MAY 14, 2010

Earlier this week, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea extended the end date of the annual seal hunt from May 15 to May 31. Poor, poor seal hunters. Tags: canada seal hunters seals. This is because of the poor "harvest" due to bad ice conditions. It's cruel. I would think they deserve better too.

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Critter News

MARCH 22, 2009

Kudos for Russian leader Vladimir Putin for stopping the slaughter of seals. Maybe Canada can learn something from the former KGB agent and avid hunter about compassion. Activists accused Norwegian companies of encouraging the killing because seal hunting was no longer allowed in their own country.

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Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

The New York Times reports that the ban will still allow seal products from traditional hunts by the Inuit people, also known as Eskimos, in Canada and Greenland. And Canada is going to appeal the decision at the WTO. Tags: canada europe seal hunters seals. victory for now.

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APRIL 19, 2010

It ended early as a result of low demand for pelts (due to the European ban on seal products) and the lack of ice floes. Tags: canada europe seal hunt seals.

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Critter News

MAY 6, 2010

They're hoping to use it to discourage tourism to Canada and hit the country economically. Tags: canada seal hunt seals PETA.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But the seal industry doesn't care. Dr. Philippe Pibarot has been studying seal heart valves to see if they might be a better transplant option for humans than those from cows or pigs, believing they may be more durable than the other animal tissue. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.

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Critter News

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. The five were charged with coming within 10 metres of seal hunters on March 26, 2006 while filming the annual slaughter in the Gulf of St. Tags: seal hunters humane society.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

He's doing it to show his opposition to the EU's ban on seal products. Canada plans on appealing to the WTO. Tags: canada europe seals hunting. Stay classy Harper!

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Alistair Darling, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, is in Canada for a G-7 meeting. He refused to eat the seal meat that the local Inuit community offered to the meeting participants, instead eating Arctic char. Stay classy Canada! Tags: canada UK europe seal hunt inuit seals G7. Good for him!

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Critter News

MARCH 26, 2010

Canadian seals are being screwed by an exceptionally warm winter and lack of ice. Tags: climate canada seal hunt seals. I've been hearing about this from the Humane Society, but haven't posted about it yet. They are dying and starving. And that's not even mentioning the hunters that are after them.

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Critter News

APRIL 26, 2009

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. Thanks to Animal Rights Person for the heads up on this. As of last Friday. *

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Russia does have its own seal hunt, but apparently they banned killings of animals under one year old. I don't see what they get out of it, unless they want to impress Europe, which has already banned seal products. Russia has been the biggest market for the Canadian seal fur industry. Excerpted from the Globe and Mail.

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Critter News

MARCH 3, 2009

Canada and Greenland have warned the EU that they could challenge such a ban before the World Trade Organization. Tags: canada greenland europe seal hunters seals. Nordic EU countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Finland have opposed such a ban, and EU legal experts say it could violate world trade rules.

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Critter News

JANUARY 5, 2009

Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Monday that Canadian officials will meet with EU politicians in a bid to convince them that Canada's commercial seal hunt is humane and should be exempt from a proposed seal import ban.A Tags: canada europe seal hunters seals hunting.

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Critter News

JANUARY 14, 2010

"The EU was a small market for Canada. Tags: canada. Of course, we're disappointed in their actions," Ms. Shea said by telephone from China today. That being said, there are many other markets out there. That's what we're doing in China. We're trying to expand on the market that's here."

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Critter News

MAY 5, 2009

From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe. A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane".

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says Vancouver's Olympic organizers have the clout to convince the Canadian government to end the controversial seal hunt on the East Coast. The group will launch a new campaign on Wednesday featuring the 2010 Inukshuk logo clubbing a seal, with the five Olympic rings dripping blood.

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Critter News

MARCH 22, 2009

The Canadian government has authorized the killing of 280,000 harp seals. Tags: canada barbarism seals. I won't even bother asking the Canadians to stop this barbaric practice. The only way it will end is if the market for this product in Europe dries up. The US already has such a ban in place.

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Critter News

APRIL 29, 2010

Tags: canada seal hunt Stupid entertainment seals.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Both groups will be protesting the seal hunt using the Olympic torch ceremony as the backdrop. Crowds gathering across Canada to watch the Olympic torch pass through their towns will also be greeted by a 12-meter-tall baby "seal."

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JUNE 21, 2011

Therefore, the EU's ban on seal products does not apply to them. I had no idea that Switzerland is NOT part of the EU. But activists are trying to change that.

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JULY 27, 2014

We found a spot where the pack ice hadn’t completely come in and stayed for hours, watching curious Ringed Seal watching us. Ringed Seal. I’d taken along a hydrophone that allowed us to listen to the otherworldly sound of our other common seal, the Bearded Seal. . Trips Arctic Canada'

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JANUARY 30, 2010

A PETA anti seal hunt activist was hit in the face with a pie in Newfoundland. This after a PETA activist hit Canada Fisheries Minister Gail Shae with a pie. In other news, PETA received more publicity for their anti seal hunting campaign when one of their protesters was hit in the face with a pie.

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JUNE 9, 2013

Now, some scientists have started expressing concerns about the North American population of the birds , which is concentrated along the coasts of Maine and Canada. For now, though, the Puffins have returned to Seal Island in Maine and are trying their best to raise healthy families. (That’s his snapshot of a victim above.).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2014

The ravens rip apart their windshield wipers and destroy the rubber seals that keep their cars waterproof. In south Florida, Black Vultures attack cars ; in Australia, it’s Black Crows ; in Canada, American Crows. She and her coworkers have had their cars besieged by Common Ravens. Now, this is not an unknown problem.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2010

com see PETA's seal hunt site. Tags: canada seal hunt seals olympics. Go to OlympicShame2010.com

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

She's referring to the pie thrown in the face of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea by a PETA member protesting the Canadian seal hunt. Tags: canada animal enterprise terrorism act seals PETA. It's pretty scary that a Liberal MP would actually question whether a pie in the face is terrorism.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

They had to cancel a big project that would have showcased polar bears and seals. 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.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

In this week's podcast ending February 6, 2010: **Willet Dairy the subject of a Mercy for Animals undercover investigation suspends a worker shown abusing cows; **The Humane Society applauds the Allergan Corporation for progress on the replacement of animal subjects in Botox testing; **PETA files a lawsuit to free Lucy the elephant from the Edmonton (..)

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Critter News

DECEMBER 28, 2009

This week's stories: PETA demands that the National Institutes of Health take back grant money awarded to the University of Kansas; The Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums prepares to investigate the Calgary Zoo next year; Convicted dog fighter Michael Vick receives an award in courage from the Philadelphia Eagles; Canada tries to find a public (..)

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. But Foot doesn't buy it and asks--again-- Yet over the long history of animal rights activism in Canada, it's hard to find evidence that the larger aims of such protests are ever achieved. makes some fantastic points that are worth repeating and deconstructing.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 15, 2012

Storing treats in an airtight container or vacuum-sealed bag preserves them for much longer and better maintains nutrient content. This is open to those in the USA and Canada, and there are multiple ways to get entries too. Bake until golden brown (approximately 30 minutes). Use pet-theme cookie cutters for gifts, fundraising or sale!

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Sadie May said the men cut a path through the sludgy ice in Newfoundland's Seal Cove harbor with their 18-foot trawler Thursday night, freeing the dolphins from an oval-shaped hole in the ice they had been swimming in for days. Tags: canada dolphin newfoundland animal rescue.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

A statue now memorializes the Great Black Hawk at its favorite place, Deering Oaks Park, but the Steller’s Sea-Eagle is alive and roaming and has intermittently been spotted in Canada, it may return to Maine soon.) There are 461 species on the Maine checklist.

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AUGUST 28, 2011

Northern Fulmar ( Fulmaris glacialis ) will continue to throng in the bay, dipping and soaring with the winds, and entertaining kids who lure them close with chunks of seal blubber. Glaucous Gulls ( Larus hyperboreus ) and Thayer’s Gulls ( Larus thayerii ) will stick around until freeze up comes mid-October, the loons almost as long.

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