Iqaluit: June 24th - 2013 - Peter Varga reports for Nunatsiaq Online on the sealskin workers and hunters who helped preserve Inuit traditions. Organizers of the June 21 Celebration of the Seal in Iqaluit honoured two [...]
June 25, 2013 - St. John's - The Canadian Sealers Association welcomes the news that the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Kathy Dunderdale, has made the promotion of the sealing industry as one of the priorities [...]
June 19, 2013 - Vancouver fashion commentator Alexandra Suhner Isenberg writes about her recent visit this past May to NAFFEM, a large fur trade show in Montreal. Invited to the show to check out the various [...]
June 7, 2013 - St. John's, Canada - There is an excellent opinion piece in a recent online post by CBC's Newfoundland and Labrador news journalist Azzo Rezori regarding the no-show of legions of animal rights activists [...]
The CSA and Frank Pinhorn welcomed the arrival of Nikolas Sellheim to Newfoundland and Labrador for his first hand observations of how the seal harvest is conducted in Canada as part of his research project back [...]
St. John's - May 24, 2013 - Canadian Sealers Association executive director Frank Pinhorn, says about 91,000 harp seals have been landed so far this spring. The federal quota for 2013 is 400,000. This year sees [...]
Rachael Petersen of Global Voices Online last week wrote about the effect the EU ban is having on the indigenous way of life in Northern Canada. - April 30, 2013: - A European Union court in [...]
