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MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - June 16, 2015) - Nearly 90 animals from a large commercial breeder in the Estrie region of Quebec are now safe thanks to the Quebec Department of...

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - April 17, 2015) - Following an announcement today by the Canadian Sealers Association that the organization will scale back and restructure in light of financial...

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - April 14, 2015) - Sir Paul McCartney has issued an impassioned appeal for an end to the senseless slaughter of baby harp seals taking place off Canada's...

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - April 12, 2015) - The Humane Society International Protect Seals Team will be on location to document the cruelty of Canada's commercial seal slaughter....

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - April 8, 2015) - This release corrects and replaces the one sent at 14:21 ET. The HIS in the title has been replaced with HSI. The...

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - April 8, 2015) - The government of Newfoundland and Labrador has announced that it will provide a further $2 million bailout to Carino Company Ltd. and...

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - March 2, 2015) - The 2015 seal hunt quota of 468,000 harp, hooded and grey seals was set today by Fisheries Minister Gail Shea. Rebecca Aldworth,...

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - Feb. 6, 2015) - The European Commission has today proposed strengthening the European Union ban on seal product trade, closing previous loopholes and...

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - Feb. 6, 2015) - Representatives from Humane Society International's offices in Canada and Europe will be available to comment on the European Commission...

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - Dec. 17, 2014) - In the wake of a new survey showing that 68 percent of Canadians with an opinion support a ban on fur farming in Canada, Humane Society...