The Canadian Sealers Association was saddened to hear of a well-known and respected resident of Twillingate Captain Jack Troake, who championed the causes and rights of the sealing industry, has passed away on Wednesday at the [...]
Listen to Doug talk with Paula Gayle of The Broadcast on CBCNL radio here "Those laws are based on propaganda," said Jim Winter, founding president of the Canadian Sealers Association (CSA), in St. John's speaking to [...]
Aaju Peter is an Inuk lawyer, activist and sealskin clothes designer. In 2012, she received the Order of Canada. Aaju Peter has travelled across Greenland, Europe, and Canada, performing modern drum dance and traditional singing and displaying sealskin fashions. She graduated from Akitsiraq [...]
Defending Canada's seal hunters Jun 2nd 2008: From an article in the Economist.com between a reporter and former CSA president Jim Winter and Aaju Peter. SUSTAINABILITY— whether in reference to farming, logging, fisheries, medicinal plants or [...]
We are pleased to include an interview with former CSA president Jim Winter completed in December 2021 by Dr. Danita Catherine Burke, founder of Women in the Arctic and Antarctic, as part of her research project [...]
Below is an abstract from a research paper conducted by Danita Burke, a J.R. Smallwood Foundation Fellow, Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark. It was published by The Northern Review Journal number 51 in [...]
It was January 25, 1979, when members of the St. John’s Rotary Club announced the formation of the Codpeace Foundation following the club’s weekly meeting. It was led by businessman and former city councilor Miller Ayre [...]
