Beginning of the end for the Atlantic Canada seal hunt? BRUSSELS––The World Trade Organization on November 25, 2013 upheld most of the 2009 European Union ban on the import of seal products, overturning the ban only when applied to “seal products derived from hunts conducted by Inuit or indigenous communities and hunts conducted for marine […]
Chinese activists object to Canadian deal to sell seal meat & oil to China
BEIJING, HALIFAX–Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea on January 12, 2011 announced to news media by teleconference call from Beijing that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Chinese Administration of Quality Supervision have reached an agreement which will allow Canadian sealers to export seal meat and oil to China for human consumption. Struggling to find new markets since the European Union banned the […]
Toronto Humane Society raided, execs arrested, by Ontario SPCA
TORONTO––Nearly 30 years of turmoil over control of the Toronto Humane Society reignited on November 26, 2009 when Ontario SPCA investigators backed by Toronto police arrived at the THS shelter with search warrants and led THS president Tim Trow, veterinarian Steve Sheridan, general manager Gary McCracken, and senior staff members Romeo Bernadino and Andy […]
Russia halts seal hunt
MOSCOW, OTTAWA––Russian minister of natural resources Yury Trutnyev on March 11, 2009 told the world that Russia has halted hunting seals under one year old on the frozen White Sea. “This bloody hunting is from now on banned in our country, as in most developed countries,” Trutnyev told media. Trutnyev described the ban as […]
Fear and loathing in Toronto the Good
April 1996 TORONTO––A Divisional Court ruling by Justice Edward Saunders is expected soon as to whether the Toronto Humane Society must release to the public copies of the pound contract it holds with the City of Toronto. Claiming a need to protect the security of animals and staff, THS has appealed a December 29, 1995 […]
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