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Anne Doncaster, 76, founder or cofounder of four noted animal advocacy organizations

April 25, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Anne Doncaster,  76,  founder or cofounder of four noted animal advocacy organizations,  died of cancer on April 19,  2014 in Toronto,  Ontario. Born Anne Procter,  in 1962 she married former Mississauga Board of Trade president David Doncaster,  who survives her,  and raised three daughters before becoming involved in animal advocacy. Recalled Mississauga.com,  “Anne Doncaster attended […]

Filed Under: Canada, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), The Americas Tagged With: Anne Doncaster, Barry Kent MacKay, Merritt Clifton, Toronto Humane Society

Chinese activists thwart Canadian hope of selling seal meat to China

April 23, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Trade deal “largely thwarted by animal rights activists”             HALIFAX,  Nova Scotia––Canadian fisheries minister Gail Shea admitted on the eve of the April 14 opening of the 2014 Atlantic Canada seal hunt that “a trade agreement to sell Canadian seal meat in China announced more than three years ago has been […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Canada, China, Food & agriculture, Marine life, Organizations, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Gail Shea, Merritt Clifton, Peter Li

Factory farming & food security in China, Brazil, & Ethiopia

April 11, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Climate, Food Security, & Growth: Ethiopia’s Complex Relationship With Livestock (22 pages)  by Mia MacDonald & Sangamithra Iyer Cattle, Soyanization, & Climate Change: Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution (42 pages) Skillful Means: The Challenge of China’s Encounter With Factory Farming (28 pages) both by Mia MacDonald & Justine Simon,  from Brighter Green, 2011. Free downloads from:   http://brightergreen.org/brightergreen.php?id=24 […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, China, Culture & Animals, Ethiopia, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, South America, Sub-Saharan, The Americas Tagged With: Brighter Green, Merritt Clifton, Mia MacDonald

Public moral concerns warrant EU seal product import ban, rules WTO

November 19, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Canada, Europe, European Union, Marine life, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: WTO

Chinese activists object to Canadian deal to sell seal meat & oil to China

January 23, 2011 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Canada, China, Food & agriculture, Marine life, Organizations, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Gail Shea, Grace de Gabriel, Merritt Clifton

Toronto Humane Society raided by Ontario SPCA

April 25, 2010 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Canada, The Americas Tagged With: Ontario SPCA, Tim Trow, Toronto Humane Society

Russia halts seal hunt

April 26, 2009 By Merritt Clifton

“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 […]

Filed Under: Canada, Eastern Europe, Europe, Marine life, Russia, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Irina Novozhilova, Masha Vorontsova, Merritt Clifton, VITA, Vladimir Putin, Yury Trutnyev

Fear and loathing in Toronto the Good

April 25, 1996 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Canada, The Americas Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Toronto Humane Society

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