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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. I think this is just stubbornness. Excerpted from UPI.

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Canada to Push Seal Hunt Agenda at G-7

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Canada needs to stop exploiting its natural resources and move into a more sophisticated type of economy. Tags: canada seal hunters Stupid seals. The second half of the article deals with their attempts at pushing that damn seal hunt. Is it THAT much a part of its economy?

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Trophy Hunters Imperil Polar Bears

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I have no sympathy for trophy hunters. Perhaps there are female trophy hunters out there too, but I suspect they are in the minority. Therefore, to me it's a slam dunk as to whether trophy hunters should continue to hunt polar bears. Tags: indigenous hunting canada polar bear trophy hunting endangered species arctic.

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Canada and Greenland Defend Seal Hunting

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They are testifying with Canada against an EU ban on seal products. Greenland Fisheries Minister Finn Karlsen, dressed in a traditional white Inuit sealskin jacket, insisted such a ban would “have severe and negative consequence for hunters and their families.” “Our Tags: canada greenland europe seal hunters seals.

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Seal Meat Served in Canada

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It also has been a traditional food for generations of hunters in Canada's east who serve it up roasted, or sometimes with a hearty Burgundy sauce. Tags: canada meat seals restaurants. For time immemorial seal has been eaten -- raw -- as a traditional food by indigenous people such as the Inuit.

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Stop the Madness: More Whooping Cranes Shot

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(The pair shot last year in Kentucky belonged to Operation Migration’s project establishing a migratory flock in the eastern United States; there is also the last true wild flock , which winters in Texas and summers in Canada.) Seriously, hunters. (Or, Or, rather, jerks who give the vast majority of ethical hunters a bad name.)

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Polar Bear Hunters Face Battle Over Extinction Worries

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Native and sport polar bear hunters may be facing more restrictions due to increasing threats to bear populations. Although few people outside the Arctic realise it, there is still a major legal hunt for the animals in four out of the five states that host the bears: Canada, Greenland, Alaska in the US, and Russia.