Sealers desperate to find markets 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 […]
Toronto Humane Society raided by Ontario SPCA
Executives arrested 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 […]
Russia halts seal hunt
“This bloody hunting is from now on banned” 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 […]
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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