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.

Bella Irish is a Grade 7 student from Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories. She and a fellow classmate won first place for ...

(Levon Sevunts / Radio Canada International) A new pan-Arctic Inuit organization is taking its case on seal hunting directly to the European Parliament on Thursday. The organization called Inuit ...

Since the 1960s, animal-rights activists have proclaimed that Canada’s seal hunt is barbaric, unethical, and unsustainable, without knowing how drastically these notions affect Inuit communities ...

Aboriginal and Inuit subsistence and commercial hunters ... hunt has been abandoned and Canada's commercial seal hunt has become — quite simply — a cull, designed more to achieve short-term ...

Most Inuit retain their traditional first ... “They live here in high Arctic, and they hunt walrus, narwhal, polar bear and seal. ... Polar bear. Most important to us. Without polar bear ...

Canadian musician Tanya Tagaq has spoken up in support of the Inuit seal hunt for many years. In 2014 she received death threats when she posted a “sealfie,” a picture of her infant daughter ...

A new pan-Arctic Inuit organization is taking its case on seal hunting directly to the European Parliament on Thursday. The organization called Inuit Sila is based in Copenhagen and has been ...

Komangapik noted that he and Menge chose to hunt on the Magdalen Islands due to the healthy seal population and because they wanted to avoid taking seals from Inuit in Nunavut. "There's a really ...