Health Canada, under Patty Hajdu, in March 2020 re-authorized poisoning wolves with strychnine.
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EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada––Again this Christmas season, Alberta Environment & Parks will welcome Santa’s reindeer by setting out strychnine.
The strychnine will be not for Santa, nor for the reindeer, the North American variety of whom are called caribou, but rather for the Big Bad Wolf, as part of a wildlife management strategy bizarrely mixing up fairy tales.
Tangling the myths of Little Red Riding Hood and Santa Claus in story-telling before the blazing Yule log might inspire not visions of sugar-plums dancing in children’s heads but rather a
Federal health minister asked to review Alberta s use of strychnine as wolf control
by Bob Weber, The Canadian Press
Posted Dec 18, 2020 4:00 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 18, 2020 at 4:14 am EDT
A wolf pack walk along the Bow River Parkway near Lake Louise, Alta, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
EDMONTON Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision that allows Alberta to keep using strychnine to poison wolves in an ongoing effort to preserve caribou herds.
Wolf Awareness and Animal Justice filed the request with Health Canada earlier this week, along with accusations that Alberta is breaking the terms governing use of the toxin and endangering other wildlife.
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A wolf pack walk along the Bow River Parkway near Lake Louise, Alta, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision to allow Alberta to keep using strychnine to poison wolves in an ongoing effort to preserve caribou herds. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward December 18, 2020 - 1:00 AM
EDMONTON - Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision that allows Alberta to keep using strychnine to poison wolves in an ongoing effort to preserve caribou herds.
Wolf Awareness and Animal Justice filed the request with Health Canada earlier this week, along with accusations that Alberta is breaking the terms governing use of the toxin and endangering other wildlife.
A wolf pack walk along the Bow River Parkway near Lake Louise, Alta, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision that allows Alberta to keep using strychnine to poison wolves in an ongoing effort to preserve caribou herds.
Wolf Awareness and Animal Justice filed the request with Health Canada earlier this week, along with accusations that Alberta is breaking the terms governing use of the toxin and endangering other wildlife. These products are not environmentally responsible, said Kaitlyn Mitchell, a lawyer with Animal Justice. The evidence of non-compliance with legal restrictions further underscores the point we can t be using these in Canada in a responsible way.