Harp seals are giving birth off the eastern coast of Canada while sealers are standing by ready to kill the pups. Why? The Canadian government and the sealers claim that the low numbers of cod is due ...

Just in time for Tax Day, Canadian icon William Shatner has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on PETA's behalf urging the government to stop spending millions of taxpayer dollars to prop up the ...

Sia has teamed up with PETA for a musical Web blitz targeting the Canadian commercial seal slaughter. The pop sensation — whose new album, This Is Acting, debuted last week — provided music for a ...

ON THE ICE FLOES IN THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE – Paul McCartney and his wife took to the frigid ice off the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday in a bid to halt Canada’s annual slaughter of weeks-old seal pups.

Animal welfare groups across the globe are joining forces to end hunt Spring is a dangerous time to be a harp seal in Canada. Every spring our neighbor to the north announces a quota for the annual ...

Let us all agree right now: Baby harp seals -- those doe-eyed sausagelike bundles of puffy white blubber -- are just phenomenally, face-meltingly cute. So adorable and so helpless and so sweet-looking ...

A Harp seal pup lies on an ice floe in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near Charlottetown, Canada. Joe Raedle/Getty Images On April 10th, the non-aboriginal seal hunt officially began on the East Coast of ...