AR-News: (CA-on)Environmentalists take aim at charitable status for pro-hunting organizations

[Animalconcerns]

TORONTO (CP) - Politically active sport-hunting groups are being
recognized as charities while some animal-welfare and anti-gun
organizations are being denied charitable status, a new national network says.

In a campaign to be launched Monday, the Charity Action Team is releasing
a report submitted to the federal government that questions the situation.
"Hunting and fishing clubs should not be charities," Nancy Zylstra of the
Ottawa-based ProNature Network says.

"Should a bowling club be given charity status and go after the right to
bowl?"

full story:
http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040229/CPN/35087027

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