Big Bad Wolf blamed for habitat loss due to global warming EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada––Again this Christmas season, Alberta Environment & Parks will welcome Santa’s reindeer by setting out strychnine. The strychnine will be not for Santa, nor for the reindeer, the North American variety of whom are called caribou, but rather for the Big […]
Canada reviews “humaneness” of strychnine, sodium cyanide, & Compound 1080
Health Canada consultation to include public comments OTTAWA, Canada––Health Canada has extended until April 18, 2019 the public consultation period on a review of the “humaneness,” when used to kill wolves, coyotes, and bears, of the poisons strychnine, sodium cyanide, and sodium fluoroacetate, better known as Compound 1080. The Canadian consultation on what it […]
No more fireworks over grizzlies in Banff National Park
Grizzly Bear #126 gets a good night’s sleep BANFF, Alberta––Many of the estimated 8,000 human residents of the City of Banff and 25,000 Canada Day visitors to Banff National Park may have awakened the next day, July 2, 2018, with headsplitting hangovers. Unaccustomed outdoor exercise, a hot late night, a high pollen count, and too […]