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http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/lagace/?p=70721101 On dirait bien que les valeureux défenseurs de la chasse au phoque n'ont plus d'arguments ! Il y a plusieurs commentaires qui devraient faire plaisir à Valou

ça n'est sûrement pas un cas unique ! La chasse est une partie de plaisir pour bien des chasseurs et des trappeurs

Oui tu as raison Saturne ! Pas croyable d'agir comme ça à 20 ans ! Et avec la petite punition qu'ils ont reçue, ils auront sûrement encore envie de recommencer

Ça me fait tellement de peine pour toi hop ! Il n'y a rien de pire que de ne pas savoir. J'espère de tout coeur que tu finiras par la retrouver XXXX

Super !!!!!!!!!!!

Des vaches du Québec s’en vont en Russie 10 avril 2008 - 11h37 Le Soleil Sylvain Desmeules, collaboration spéciale La Malbaie Ce sont des veaux comme celui-ci que le producteur laitier Stéphane Dufour de La Malbaie envoie en Russie. Collaboration spéciale Sylvain Desmeules Un cargo appareillera du port de Sorel en mai. Il mettra le cap vers la Russie, une croisière de 15 jours pour des passagers spéciaux: 2200 jeunes vaches de race Holstein. En 2008, 14 000 vaches du Canada seront exportées vers la Russie pour occuper des centaines de fermes. Comptois International Export achète de partout pour alimenter ce nouveau marché, du Québec principalement, mais aussi des Maritimes et de l’Ontario, ferme par ferme, afin d’honorer son contrat avec la république fédérale. «On prend le temps pour que le marché absorbe la perte. On ne veut pas vider le Québec. Mais les éleveurs sont contents, c’est bon pour eux, le prix est supérieur à ce qu’ils reçoivent habituellement», explique Jeannot Comptois, dont l’entreprise est établie à Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover. Stéphane Dufour, un éleveur de La Malbaie et président du Club Holstein du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean—Charlevoix, vient de lui livrer 15 bêtes, dont six Holstein proviennent de son troupeau. «Depuis l’histoire de la vache folle en 2002, nous n’avons plus de prix intéressants pour nos animaux. Il n’y avait plus de marché, alors les troupeaux ont augmenté, mais ça, c’est comme un vent d’air frais, c’est bon pour notre industrie», a-t-il confié. Quatorze avions, avec comme bagage 215 vaches, ont déjà mis le cap sur la Russie, en partance de Mirabel. Outre le premier paquebot-ferme en mai, trois autres bateaux sont prévus, dont un en juin, en partance de Bécancour. Comptois International Export a surtout exporté des porcs, au cours des 15 dernières années, en moyenne 15 000 par année, mais voilà que la Russie s’ouvre au marché du bétail. L’entreprise n’achète que des Holstein de 2 à 30 mois, de race pure et sans maladie. Des tests de leucose sont entre autres administrés pour s’assurer de la qualité du bétail. La Russie paie entre 1200 $ et 2000 $ la bête aux fermiers canadiens, soit jusqu’à 500 $ parfois de plus que le marché traditionnel. C’est donc annuellement un marché d’exportation variant entre 20 et 25 millions $ pour les éleveurs canadiens. «La Russie est le plus gros acheteur actuellement. L’expertise canadienne est reconnue et des délégations russes doivent même venir ici pour parfaire leur formation. On s’attend à un volume similaire en 2009», explique M. Comptois. La pression est telle qu’on doit piger dans les troupeaux de l’Ouest canadien pour arriver à alimenter le marché russe. M. Comptois doit s’y rendre pour cueillir 4000 Holstein au cours des prochaines semaines. «C’est la première fois qu’on entend dire que nos animaux intéressent les Russes. J’aimerais ça savoir comment vaut ma petite vache dans ce pays», dit en souriant M. Dufour, qui admet que les gains sont de 20 à 30 % supérieurs au marché. http://lapresseaffaires.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080410/CPSOLEIL/80409221/6586/CPSOLEIL02

le mien a voté pour le S-203

fait et diffusé

Oui, ces îles se trouvent au nord de la côte de la Colombie-Britannique

oups désolé ! Le sondage ne semble plus être en ligne ce matin. Hier soir, 80% avaient répondu NON

To vote in the poll - http://www.cbc.ca/nl/ Seal hunt: How close? Should anti-sealing activists be allowed to get as close as they like to sealers? Les activistes devraient-ils avoir le droit de s'approcher des chasseurs de phoques comme ils le désirent ? Yes; what's to hide? Oui ! Qu'y a-t-il à cacher? As long as they don't break the law En autant qu'ils respectent la loi No; existing rules are fine Non, les lois actuelles sont très bien Not sure Incertain

La loi S-203 aurait été adoptée hier !

À bord d'un bateau en aluminium et roulant à toutes vitesses, deux hommes âgés de 20 ans tous les deux, s'amusaient à frapper des cygnes. Ces deux sadiques qui ont tué un cygne et en ont blessé plusieurs autres, n'ont reçu qu'une contravention et leur permis a été suspendu pour 24 heures. --------------------------------------------------------------- Times Colonist Published: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 Two men were ticketed by police in Cowichan Bay Sunday after using a five-metre aluminum boat to run over swans. The men, both 20, killed one swan and injured several others, say North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP. "They were just driving as fast as they could into them," said Const. Susan Boyes. The driver was ticketed and fined an unknown amount under the federal Migratory Birds Convention Act. Both men were also given 24-hour driving prohibitions. http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=9795191a-b5e5-4646-b4d8-e214bd760638&k=17578

Video of bear's death sparks Haida protest No rules broken, says province's chief conservation officer Judith Lavoie, Victoria Times Colonist Published: Thursday, April 10, 2008 YouTube video of bear killing on Haida Gwaii Voici la vidéo en question A gruesomely graphic video of the death throes of a black bear, gunned down on a logging road on the Queen Charlotte Islands by whooping and laughing hunters, is being used to mobilize protesters and members of the Haida Nation who want an end to trophy hunting on Haida Gwaii. Des membres de la Hation Haida (Îles Charlotte) veulent mobiliser des protestataires afin que la chasse aux trophées soit interdite. Pour ce faire, ils présentent cette vidéo horrible d'un ours noir abattu par des chasseurs qui rient et se réjouissent de l'agonie de l'animal. The video, shot four years ago by a cook working for Prophet Muskwa guide outfitters, which holds bear hunting licences in the area, is posted on YouTube and shows the bear trying to stagger to its feet as a total of six shots are fired. Cette vidéo, filmée il y a 4 ans, par un cuisinier travaillant pour la pourvoirie Prophet Muskwa, montre l'ours tentant de se relever, après avoir reçu six balles dans le corps. "Someone has broken his back, I would say," says one hunter, as the wounded animal tries to drag himself across the road. «Quelqu'un lui a cassé le dos» dit l'un des chasseurs, alors que l'animal blessé rampe sur la route Another boasts about the injured bear snarling as he dragged it up from the bank it tried to climb. Un autre chasseur se vante d'avoir tirer sur les pattes de l'ours afin de le faire redescendre de la bute qu'il tentait d'atteindre A protest is being organized for Saturday outside the hunting lodge. One of the organizers is poet Susan Musgrave, who divides her time between Victoria and the Queen Charlottes. Une manifestation sera organisée samedi à côté de cette pourvoirie. La poète Susan Musgrave fait partie des organisateurs. However, the Ministry of Environment says the video does not show any violation of hunting regulations. Le ministère de l'environnement affirme qu'il a vu cette vidéo et qu'elle ne démontre aucune violation aux règlements de la chasse. "We got a copy back in 2004 and we went through it carefully and there are no violations shown," said provincial chief conservation officer Mark Hayden. Kevin Olmstead, Prophet Muskwa guide outfitter, said problems are being manufactured by a small group of agitators. "We are doing everything according to the law and they don't want us to do it because it is not benefiting them," Olmstead said. It is always preferable to kill an animal with one shot, but there are times when it takes multiple shots, he said. "What you see in the video is probably one of the worst set of shots, but there's all sorts of things in between that and dispatching the animal with the perfect one shot." Olmstead said the former employee chose the worst-case scenario, out of hundreds of videos, to hand to opponents. All edible parts of the animal are removed, as required by law, and given to an Island resident who makes it into sausages, he said. Guujaw, president of the Council of the Haida Nation, cannot see any good reason why people should be allowed to come to Haida Gwaii to shoot bears - an animal tied culturally to the Haida. The video shows what people on the Islands know to be a usual kind of hunt, he said. "There is an absolute disrespect for life to laugh as you kill a bear," he said. "It's just a disgusting habit these guys have to be getting their kicks by driving around and killing things." Research shows there is little genetic difference between the protected white spirit bear and the Haida Gwaii black bear, said Guujaw, who is considering making a black bear poster saying "you wouldn't shoot me if I was white." Guujaw said he believed the province had agreed three years ago to stop the trophy hunt and negotiations are now underway to try and settle the issue. Environment Ministry spokeswoman Kate Thompson said a 2005 memo sets out terms for discussing an end to commercial bear hunting on the Queen Charlottes, but is not an agreement. Musgrave and a group of islanders, the Friends of Taan - the Haida name for bear - say there has been no black bear census on the Queen Charlottes, so no one knows whether the hunt is sustainable. Many of the hunters are from the U.S. and Europe and pay up to $10,000 for a chance to kill a bear. "It's a pitiable act of cruelty, one disturbingly out of touch with a time when many of us are concerned about the preservation of life on our battered and bartered planet," Musgrave said. http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=1bd774b4-db3c-4f86-99dd-efb716708917&k=39073

Selon un vétérinaire, les chasseurs de phoques auront besoin de plus de pratique Ça veut tout dire ! April 9, 2008 CBC News New rules adopted by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to ensure seals are killed humanely should be accompanied by better training for sealers, says a member of the veterinary panel that looked into the issue. A group of nine veterinarians from Canada, the U.S. and Europe met in August 2005 to look at ways to minimize or eliminate suffering of animals during the seal hunt. One of the recommendations was a three-step process for killing, including bleeding the animal after it has been clubbed or shot. Dr. Pierre Yves Daoust of Charlottetown's Atlantic Veterinary College, a member of the panel, said he's pleased this practice was adopted, but added training in the method is important. Sealers have to apprentice for two years to get a licence, but Daoust told CBC News Tuesday that apprenticing on the ice isn't enough. "Something more structured, more formal in the form of a workshop [is needed]," he said. "Maybe one- or two-day workshops where various aspects of the hunt are addressed, including the proper humane way of killing an animal including ensuring that it is dead." DFO spokesman Kevin Stringer said the department is looking into that. "When it comes to moving forward on the three-step process we will have to ensure that there is the ability to make sure that folks understand exactly how to do that," said Stringer. "Whether that's information sessions, or training, or getting the veterinarians in front of the sealers, we're going to have to figure that out." Another recommendation in the report was to slow down the pace of the hunt. Stringer said DFO has staggered season openings around the region and is looking at other measures to reduce competition between sealers on the ice. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2008/04/09/sealer-training.html

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et bien + si on rajoute les feux de fermes du Québec... 7-04-2008 Factory Farm Fires Claim 10,000 Pigs in Three Weeks By Martha Rosenberg One of the worst parts of incarceration, many say, is knowing if a fire breaks out the guards aren't going to save you. They're not going to rush back into the prison building and risk their lives. Why would they? If your life had any value, you wouldn't be locked up in the first place. That's exactly what happened to 10,000 pigs who perished in factory farm fires in Canada and Indiana in the past month. 8,700 pigs burned alive at Netley Hutterite Colony in Manitoba, Canada about 30 miles north of Winnipeg on April 2. The pigs were housed together in a 900 foot by 80 foot barn with only six full-time and two or three part-time employees caring for them. Efforts to stop the fire by cutting a path through the barn with a bulldozer failed when it "got hung up" on the factory farming style manure pits beneath the stalls. "At one point we heard a big squeal and it was ear-shattering," said Tom Hofer, a retired hog worker, with tears in his eyes "You could hear them scream," agreed Markus Hofer, a teacher who also witnessed the blaze. On March 11, firefighters were called to Cardinal Farms Sow Farm, 55 miles northwest of Indianapolis, IN where 2,500 pigs were burned alive as fire engulfed a hog farrowing and nursery barn. The facility, owned by Agrivest Inc., the largest farrow to finish hog producer in Montgomery County which produces more than 100,000 hogs annually, is still in operation. Fritz Holzgrefe, owner/operator of Agrivest Inc., thanked firefighters and the Red Cross and promised to do "what we have to do to get the mess cleaned up." No cruelty to animal charges were filed against the farm owners or operators. The Netley fire is not the first factory farm fire at a Hutterite Colony whose members follow the teachings of Jakob Hutter in sharing communal goods and observing pacifism at least toward humans. In the past two years, fires at Vermillion Farms Colony and Rainbow Colony, both also near Winnipeg, have incinerated 3,000 and 5,500 pigs, respectively. Nor is it the first big Indiana fire. Less than a year ago, firefighters from eight departments in three counties responded to a fire that killed all the hogs, thought to be in the hundreds, on a farm in White County, IN near Otterbein. Some owners of burned hog farms are even repeat offenders. Last June, 50 firefighters battled a lethal hog farm fire near Flora, IN, in the same building where 3,300 hogs perished in a fire seven years earlier-a fact Flora Volunteer Fire Department Chief Scott Sisson called "ironic." "The Lord's in control," said Lynn Peters, owner of the fire prone farm, who vowed to get more hogs. "We'll get through this," he promised. And a fire that killed hundreds of pigs in Chilliwack, BC, Canada, last summer was the third for hog farmers Jan and Nancy Pannekoek who were just planning to leave the business. Their second fire, in August of 2004, killed 250 pregnant sows and 20 boars. No cruelty to animal charges have been filed against Peters or the Pannekoeks. Of course factory farms, with their uninterrupted rows of confined animals and manure pits, are known to be harmful to the environment, animals and people who live or work near them. For the Netley Hutterite Colony and similar communities often targeted by corporate farming interests, they are not even profitable. Nor are barn fires new. But only a factory farm can incinerate 10,000 pigs in a few hours in a fire-as they wait, in vain, for their guards to rescue them. Martha Rosenberg is Staff Cartoonist, Evanston Roundtable http://newsblaze.com/story/20080406142442rose.nb/newsblaze/OPINIONS/Opinions.html

Two Die In Spain From Human Form Of Mad Cow Disease April 8, 2008 Two people have died in Spain from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease, the health department of the regional Castilla-Leon government said on Monday. The Carlos III Institute, which specialises in epidemics, said it had logged three deaths from vCJD since 2005, including those announced in Castilla-Leon.(...) Mad cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, first emerged in Britain in the 1980s and has been found in herds in several European and other countries. Scientists believe it is transmitted through infected meat and bone meal fed to cattle and may cause vCJD in humans.... http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/47831/story.htm Two Die In Spain From Human Form Of Mad Cow Disease -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPAIN: April 8, 2008 MADRID - Two people have died in Spain from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease, the health department of the regional Castilla-Leon government said on Monday. The Carlos III Institute, which specialises in epidemics, said it had logged three deaths from vCJD since 2005, including those announced in Castilla-Leon. A health department spokesman from the northern region said one person had died of vCJD 15 to 20 days ago, and one in late December or early January. Juan Jose Badiola, the director for Spain's National Reference Centre for Transmitted Spongiform Encephalopathy, said there was no cause for alarm. "It is most likely that both victims contracted the disease more than eight years ago," Badiola said in a report by Europa Press. The European Union in January 2001 banned the use of animal and bone meal in animal feed in order to prevent the spread of mad cow disease and vCJD. The National Health Service in Britain, where several deaths from vCJD have been reported, says on its Web site that similar infections take between 15 and 20 years to become active. Mad cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, first emerged in Britain in the 1980s and has been found in herds in several European and other countries. Scientists believe it is transmitted through infected meat and bone meal fed to cattle and may cause vCJD in humans. (Reporting by Itziar Reinlein; Writing by Martin Roberts; Editing by Catherine Evans)

Le mercredi 09 avril 2008 Bob Weber Presse Canadienne Eureka De nouvelles recherches menées dans les eaux de l'Arctique suggèrent que le Canada pourrait revendiquer jusqu'au Pôle nord une étendue marine d'une superficie équivalente aux provinces des Prairies. La Russie avait fait un coup d'éclat l'année dernière en se rendant dans l'Arctique en sous-marin et en plantant symboliquement un drapeau pour revendiquer un vaste territoire. Pas si vite, clament aujourd'hui une douzaine de scientifiques canadiens installés à la station météorologique d'Eureka, dans le Nunavut, qui étudient discrètement les fonds marins de l'Arctique depuis trois ans. Alors que les changements climatiques continuent de faire fondre la banquise, une lutte s'installe entre les pays côtiers de l'Arctique pour l'exploitation des richesses naturelles du secteur. On estime que quelque mille milliards de pieds carrés de gaz naturel et des millions de barils de pétrole se trouvent sous les eaux de l'Arctique jusqu'ici considérés inaccessibles. La Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer, signée par le Canada en 2003, régit ces revendications de territoire. En vertu des règles de la Convention, des dorsales sous-marines, soit des élévations du fond des océans, permettent d'étendre davantage ces revendications. Deux de ces dorsales sous-marines - dénommées Alpha et Lomonosov - s'étendent jusqu'en Russie. La dorsale de Lomonosov sert de justification principale à la Russie pour ses prétentions sur l'Arctique. Toutefois, les travaux de la Commission géologique du Canada (CGC) suggèrent que la dorsale de Lomonosov pourrait aussi être rattachée au Canada. Bien qu'il y ait un fossé entre la dorsale et le plateau continental, il n'est pas assez profond, selon les termes de la Convention, pour l'isoler du Canada. «Nous sommes chanceux que le fossé ne soit pas plus profond que 2500 mètres, a indiqué la scientifique Ruth Jackson. Si nous pouvons démontrer que la dorsale est rattachée géologiquement au Canada, nous avons en main ce qu'il faut pour revendiquer un vaste territoire jusqu'au Pôle Nord.» La Convention prend aussi en considération l'épaisseur des sédiments en provenance du continent, un élément qui joue aussi en faveur du Canada, selon les scientifiques. Beaucoup de données doivent être encore recueillies avant d'être en mesure de finaliser les revendications du Canada sur le territoire arctique, et respecter l'échéance de 2013. http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080409/CPACTUALITES/80409214/6488/CPACTUALITES

on peut l'entendre parler de son navet ici RDI: http://www.radio-canada.ca/arts-spectacles/cinema/2007/03/29/001-phoques.asp voir aussi:

pas encore eu le temps de l'écouter... Je le ferai dans le courant de la soirée ...