Organisation: Department of Fisheries and Oceans

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Quebec community calls for help to free stranded whales

A community in Quebec's Far North is calling for outside help to free about a dozen killer whales trapped under a vast stretch of sea ice.

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Whale impaled by whale-watch cruise ship

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Canadian government defends seal hunt

Canada’s shame: tusked whale slaughter condemned

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Canada: Bodies of three sailors found after vessel capsizes

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Seal hunt activists ‘run off the road’

Canada begins controversial seal cull

Sealers took to the thawing ice floes off the Atlantic Ocean today, the first day of Canada’s contentious seal hunt, which animal rights activist claim is barbaric and not economically worth the bad publicity.

Sat, 25 Mar, 2006

Hunters set to begin world’s biggest seal cull

THOUSANDS of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears have descended on the ice floes off eastern Canada for the world’s largest seal hunt.

Thu, 31 Mar, 2005

Seal hunters descend on ice floes

Thousands of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears have descended on the ice floes off eastern Canada for the world’s largest seal hunt.

Wed, 30 Mar, 2005

Indians and scientists clash over ‘reincarnated’ killer whale

CANADIAN scientists and Indians are competing in boats for the affections of a dangerously friendly killer whale off Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Sat, 19 Jun, 2004

Wildfire forces 7,500 from homes

Wildfires have driven nearly 7,500 people from their homes and burned dozens of houses in the British Colombia town of Barriere, emergency officials said.

Sat, 02 Aug, 2003