Brian Jones - 2005
Dead Wrong, Baby; Animal-Rights Movement Hits New Low
It takes something really obnoxious to give offence these days, but a picture that ran in The Telegram Tuesday was one of the most offensive things to appear in public print since Bono blasted Canadians for being stingy with foreign aid.

Lisa Mastny - 2000
Coming to Terms with the Arctic
ast July, the elders of Pelly Bay, an Inuit community on Canada’s Arctic coastline, carefully packaged up six hand-carved marionettes and shipped them off to a master puppeteer in the U.S. state of Rhode Island, for fine-tuning. The dolls, which had taken a year to assemble, depicted Kiviuq and his companions, legendary travelers in the stories of the Inuit, the people long known in Western mainstream culture as “Eskimo�—a term now rejected as derogatory. The mythical travelers were slated to be the stars of a new video that would teach children in Nunavut, Canada’s youngest and northernmost territory, about their Inuit heritage.

Teresa Platt and Simon Ward - 1998
Saving Society from Animal "Snuff" Films
It's the stuff of nightmares. The images are brutal, bloody, emotive and effective. Wallets are opened and people give, give, give to stop the suffering. These are films of animal life being taken, legally and illegally, "animal snuff films", footage that is sometimes real, sometimes staged.

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott - 1998
Brothers of the seals
Captured with a noose pole and pinned down, the seal struggles. Carefully, three teenagers immobilize the muscular body on a restraining board. One wrong move and flashing canines will sink into the nearest hand or leg, slashing it or tearing a chunk of muscle as big as a ripe plum. Around the seal's neck, an ugly wound reveals a loop of emerald-green fishnet, discarded or lost by a fishing vessel somewhere in the Bering Sea months ago and now embedded in putrid flesh. Curious northern fur seals play with floating trash and get entangled in the fishnet. As the animal grows, the debris cuts into its neck and slowly kills.

Simon Ward - 1996
IFAW Missionary Fired for Talking Detente
A veteran seal hugger has been sacked by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) after attempting to broker a deal between Canada's sealers and her unyielding employer. But the offer of compromise from the sealers remains on the table, and for the first time in nearly three decades, there is a glimmer of hope that IFAW might bend.