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Strange enough to see a photograph of a Kennedy firing a rifle, one with a telescopic sight no less, as the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination approaches. Stranger still to learn that the Kennedy firing the rifle, a 14-year-old granddaughter of late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is killing seal pups in Canada, according a caption for the photo written by her father. The photo was posted this morning on the Facebook page of Maxwell Kennedy, 48, son of Robert and Ethel Kennedy. Here's what Max Kennedy wrote in the caption for the photo -- "Noah and me working with Canadian...

Navy SEAL Helmet Cams: Obama Watched bin Laden Raid Video Ian Yarett Fri May 6, 10:20 pm ET NEW YORK – Navy SEAL Helmet Cams: Obama Watched bin Laden Raid VideoObama and officials in the White House Situation Room were able to watch the raid against bin Laden live, the Washington Post confirms. Ian Yarett on how helmet-cam combat video works. Plus, full coverage of bin Laden. It was a picture that caught everyone’s attention. Sitting in the White House situation room, President Obama and his team appear to be breathlessly monitoring the raid that located and killed Osama bin...

Sick, sick, sick. There is no other way to describe the grotesque, over-the-top spectacle put on in Ottawa this week by a past-her-prime French actress. Brigitte Bardot made her way from the land of berets and baguettes with a deluded sense that she would somehow meet with our prime minister and plead for Canada to stop the annual seal hunt. The PM didn't bite. Neither did the fisheries minister or anyone else with a full-time job that doesn't involve a flash and a notepad. So, Bardot was left to do what she does best, play for the cameras. And that's...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Humane Society of the United States is asking American restaurants and consumers to boycott Canadian seafood to pressure that government to stop the annual seal hunt. The announcement of the boycott Monday coincided with the start of country-of-origin labeling for seafood products sold in the United States, which will let shoppers know where their seafood comes from. Legal Sea Foods, a 31-restaurant chain, and Down East Seafoods, a distributor to about 200 hotels and restaurants, have joined the boycott. The Humane Society has urged more than 5,000 U.S. seafood distributors to follow suit. "Americans have repeatedly...

Thousands of commercial hunters armed with clubs, rifles and spears moved on to the ice floes off eastern Canada today to kill more than 300,0000 baby seals for their pelts over the next few weeks. The spring hunt, which began yesterday, is expected to bring the area's coastal communities some £8.5m, but has been condemned by animal rights activists as barbaric. This year's hunt is the third large-scale cull since the Canadian government decided in 2003 to allow almost a million seals to be culled over three years. Article continues The move dismayed the anti-seal hunting movement, which has been...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Actor Richard Dean Anderson, best known for portraying the quick-thinking handyman hero MacGyver in the TV series of the same name, has taken on a new role to protest the annual seal hunt. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, one of the world's most famous environmental groups, has enlisted Anderson's help as it tries to intensify its international campaign against the annual seal hunt, which starts in a few weeks. Anderson, who recently finished working on the science-fiction series Stargate SG-1, said he's not worried about being used to promote Sea Shepherd's message. "No, it was my volunteering to...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Gardaí are investigating the killing of about 60 seals on the Blasket Islands off the Kerry coast. The slaughter of the breeding grey seals, which are a protected species in European waters, has been described as horrific by the Irish Seal Sanctuary. The organisation has also reported the matter to the Department of the Environment and the Wildlife Service. Some of the animals had been bludgeoned to death. Others were found shot on the western side of Beginish Island in the Blaskets. Kerry representative of the Irish Seal Sanctuary, Seán Eviston,...

Norway's new Fisheries Minister wants to hunt more seals and market the hunt to tourists. Svein Ludvigsen thinks the country's controversial practice of clubbing baby seals over the head could be turned into an "exclusive" coastal experience for foreigners. Fisheries Minister Svein Ludvigsen risks setting off another storm of critics after his remarks about Norway's seal hunt. The minister's proposal, however, seems sure to spark the ire of environmentalists and animal rights activists who have long criticized Norway's seal hunt in line with its whaling and wolf hunt. Ludvigsen is undeterred. Participating in a seal hunt along Norway's scenic coastline...

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) -- An American conservation group is calling for an international boycott of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver-Whistler because of an annual seal hunt that takes place on Canada's East Coast. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society based in Malibu, Calif., said the games, scheduled for February and March, will coincide with the time the seal hunt begins. "These dates fall at the exact time that the notoriously cruel, largest marine mammal slaughter in the world takes place on the East Coast of Canada," the society said in a statement found on their Web site. "The Olympics...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. IQALUIT, Nunavut - Meeka Mike reaches into a hole in the ice of Frobisher Bay and tugs on the net, pulling out a fat ring seal. Minutes later, the ribs have been cut out to be cooked for dinner and she munches strips of the raw liver. Seal hunting is part of the fabric of Inuit culture in extreme northern Canada, providing food and pelts for clothing as far back as the people known as Eskimos down south can remember. It once was an economic mainstay too, before those Meeka labels...