The contentious harp seal hunt, the target of protests since the 1960s, begins about 12 days after the seal pups are born and their fur changes from white to gray. Animal rights activists say the ...

Seal hunters returned to Canada’s East Coast on Tuesday, and animal activists vowed to protest the annual hunting season that helps support fishermen by culling what the government says is ...

Canadian officials say regulations have made hunts more humane; critics say hunters flout the new rules.A seal lies among carcasses during the first phase of this year's seal hunt, conducted in March.

OFF CANADA'S EAST COAST — Canadian hunters started shooting and clubbing harp seal pups Saturday at the start of an annual hunt that is the focus of a tech-savvy protest by animal-rights groups ...

Morrissey has responded to a Canadian politician’s claim that he is “ignorant” about the country’s seal-hunting policies in a new post comparing seal hunts to Nazi Germany. Previously, he ...

It’s an opinion shared by two veterinary science professors who penned a study in June 2012 that concluded, if proper killing methods are followed, the annual Canadian harp seal hunt is humane.

Feb 29, 2012 - Anything being dismissed as "misinformation" by the Stephen Harper government just might be worth a look-see.

Canada’s largest seal hunt for half a century started this week, prompting outrage from animal welfare campaigners who claim the slaughter is barbaric. Sealers are now at work on the northern ...

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland — The global recession, plummeting pelt prices and the prospect of a European ban on seal products dramatically lowered the number of seals killed in this year’s ...

Just as the gruesome annual Canadian seal hunt is winding down, the World Trade Organization has once again upheld the European Union’s policy of banning the commercial trade in seal products in ...