Cat and dog fur: Another great reason to boycott Canada

This post from IFAW will give you the details but in a nutshell, while Europe and the United States are banning cat and dog fur imports from China, Canada refuses to do so” in fear such action could weaken Canada’s position against the banning of seal products by other countries.”
I’m not going to post details [...]

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Sir, may I recommend our special for tonight: PCBs in a Brominated Flame Retardant sauce?

The Toronto Star published an article stating that the Governor General’s chowing down on a raw seal heart has given Inuit leaders hope that southern palates will take a shine to arctic meats such as seal, caribou and muskox.
With 58% employment in the region (stated in the article) who can blame them for having such [...]

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Canada’s Governor General Michaelle Jean… don’t know much about geography

Today in the news, our Governor General Michaelle Jean was in KUGLUKTUK, Nunavut (in Canada’s far north arctic region)  speaking to students and while there she helped skin a seal and ate a piece of its heart, “raw,” as per this news item from the Canadian Press.
Then she “expressed dismay that anyone would characterize the [...]

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Canadian politicans out of touch with reality

Have a look at this snippet of transcript from the Canadian Parliament. This is what one of the clowns brought forward yesterday.
Text taken from House of Commons site
” “Mr. Raynald Blais (Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine, BQ):
“Mr. Speaker, I also seek the unanimous consent of the House to adopt the following motion:

That, in the opinion of [...]

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What Stockwell Day calls humane

The latest news on the seal massacre is that Canada plans to launch trade reprisals if the EU votes to ban seal products. Here is the article.
Note these words from Stockwell Day, the International Trade Minister:
“International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said a proposed European ban on the trade in seal products doesn’t contain “acceptable” [...]

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In Canada eh? What a tremendous pity!

Regarding the seal hunt, I am fairly sure that if more Canadians would take the time to learn the true reality of what goes on in Newfoundland every March/April, they would do something to stop it.
But people in this country cannot count on a courageous media interested in revealing the truth of the seal pup [...]

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WWF’s Earth Hour: When the lights go out….

When the lights go out at 8:30 p.m. for Earth Hour, the lingering stench of death and  horror will be ripe on the ice in Newfoundland.
Go ahead and support World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Earth Hour if you like.
I prefer to make more far reaching commitments to the environment in terms of lifestyle changes while supporting [...]

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What Canadians Call Humane

I think co-blogger  PLEASE DO NOT TAP ON THE GLASS said it best in her last post:
“Why are the Canadian people turning their backs to the hideous slaughter of baby seals in Newfoundland? WHY? What are they afraid of? Seeing the truth of their natures? Do they prefer to ignore the bloody truth, hoping no [...]

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The Canadian Way: Turn your back and don’t look

“One might as well argue that because Canada used to hang convicted murderers by the neck until they were dead the tradition should not be allowed to disappear. Sealing in Canada is not a tradition, it is just an unenlightened, outdated practice.”
J.M. Coetzee, Interview from March 2008

On the eve of the Canadian seal pup massacre, [...]

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Two Hundred Baby Grey Seals in Nova Scotia are slaughtered “for speculation” purposes

Please see this press release from Humane Society International (Canada) on the senseless slaying of two hundred seal pups on Hay Island, Nova Scotia.
It had seemed that these seals were to be spared but as you will read in the release, the blood of the innocent was yet again spilled.
The Eyes of the World are [...]

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