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Fur Stores in Vancouver Canada Vandalized

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Four fur stories in the Vancouver, Canada, area were vandalized by animal rights activists who sprayed red paint on the windows and doors. The four stores were Capilano Furs, Speiser Furs, Snowflake Canada and Pappas Furs. Credit is being taken by ALF. Read the full story here at the Vancouver Sun.

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Canada's Military Goes Back to Fur Hats

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Canada's military is reverting to issuing real fur winter hats to soldiers, replacing synthetic tuques for winter use, the Department of Defense announced. An initial order for 1,000 of the new "Yukon" hats with muskrat fur has been placed at a cost of $65,000, the Globe and Mail reported. I think this is just stubbornness.

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Walmart Canada Pulls Rabbit Fur Slippers

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The Animal Defence League of Canada got Walmart to pull slippers containing real rabbit fur off its shelves. Walmart (of all places) has a no-fur policy. Tags: consumers canada fur walmart. The slippers are called Tender Tootsies. DON'T BUY THEM!

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Canada Promoting Seal Meat and Fur in China

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"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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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures

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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.

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Big Year Birding Update

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A gang of four Calgarians (if that is what you call people from Calgary) are doing a combined mammal and bird big year across Canada , hoping to hit 400 bird species and 50 mammals, though it seems that they really want to hit a combined 500 species (with the catchy moniker “Fur and Feathers 500″).

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Loner, Drifter: More on the Hoary Bat

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They are solitary, and their roosting habits may be the reason for their frosted fur and (relatively, for a bat) high-contrast patterns of coloration – in the open, with no safety to be had in numbers, they need to blend with lichen and break up their outlines to avoid predation during the day. Hoary Bats roost in trees, not caves.

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