AR-News: WSPA Canada Online Newsletter - May 13th, 2004

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  May 13, 2004
 Recent Stories

 *WSPA Canada's Bear Bile Awareness Tour begins May 18th!
 On May 18th of this year WSPA will be taking its bear farm awareness
campaign on the road to half a dozen cities in the Montreal to Windsor
corridor. The tour is part of WSPA's global campaign to increase
awareness
about China's bear bile farms. The tour will feature WSPA's mechanical
bear
Chewan as well as a number of Canadian celebrities. WSPA will have
celebrity
support when the tour hits Toronto. Comedienne Jessica Holmes, star of
CBC's
Royal Canadian Air Farce has agreed to support the tour by addressing
the
media in Toronto. Holmes will be joined by singer/songwriter Tom
Cochrane,
Sean Cullen, star of Toronto musical comedy hit The Producers and
Dora-nominated actor/playwright Teresa Pavlinek. All four celebrities
have
agreed to lend their names to the effort to stop bear farming in China.
 Here is the schedule: Montreal May 18th - Comples les ailesKingston May
19th - Confederation Park Toronto May 20th - Yonge Eglinton
CentreHamilton
May 21st - Gore ParkLondon May 22nd - Market SquareWindsor May 23rd -
Devonshire Mall  If you would like to take part by volunteering 2 or 3
hours
at the WSPA
 display. Please contact Sandra Clarke at clarke at wspa.ca. To read more
about
the tour visit our website through the link below.
> > http://wspa.ca/beartour.html


 *Good News Pending for Howard the Dolphin
 In March, WSPA received word that a US aquarium called Theatre of the
Sea
had applied for an import permit for Howard, the last performing dolphin
at
the West Edmonton Mall. While Theatre of the Sea is far from ideal, it
is at
least a partial victory.
 http://wspa.ca/dolphins/howard.html

 *Register Your Protest Against the Canadian Seal Hunt
 The past decade has seen the rapid escalation of Canada's commercial
seal
hunt. Sharply curtailed in the 1980s, as the demand for seal fur
bottomed
out, the Canadian government has been working to expand the hunt. Under
this
year's quota, up to 350,000 harp seals may be shot or clubbed to death.
If
sealers succeed in raising the level of butchery, it will be the largest
slaughter of seals in almost fifty years.
 http://wspa.ca/sealhunt/action.html


 *Find out what's new at WSPA around the world
 Check out WSPA's international site for all the latest news and
 information.
 http://www.wspa-international.org/site/index.php?page=257&ilocale=1



the wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. he is in front of it - axel munthe

"Never doubt that a small group of dedicated citizens can change the world. 
Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."      Margaret Mead
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