
Sealing documentary provokes bitter attack on Newfoundland CBC \|\| November 21, 2005 [KDR: I don't think that "sadistic" is the first word I would use to describe Newfies.] A longtime seal-hunt opponent has described Newfoundlanders as "sadistic" and "embarrassing" to the rest of Canada. Paul Watson, who heads the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, defended his comments, posted online in response to a National Film Board documentary celebrating sealers. "I think it's an accurate generalization of Newfoundland. The fact is is that Newfoundland has a history of extermination of species and mismanagement and destruction of its fisheries. That is a fact," Watson said. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com Newfoundland filmmaker Anne Troake has become the target of angry messages and vandalism after her film My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers was shown recently in St. John's. It's about sealing and her family's history of participation in the industry. Troake used a recorded phone message in her film to show the kind of reaction her family gets when they defend the sealing industry. "You people out there you don't even know whose money you are living off of. You're living off of central Canada and Western Canada." But that call was mild compared with what happened after the documentary was shown. "Last Saturday night, after I went to bed, a car drove up and somebody threw a brick through my window and drove away. It wasn't an attempted break-in," Troake said. The window was broken after angry letters about her film were posted on the internet. Watson says he doesn't condone what's happen to Troake. Troake said she'll keep showing her film in Newfoundland and Labrador and she's looking to distribute it in other parts of Canada and the U.S. A member of the filmmaker's family, fisherman and sealing advocate Gary Troake, died at sea in 2000. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
In Depth The Number 1 Reason YOU became a Slave Coming Soon: 9-11 Liberals, Conservatives and NDP
Archive September 2005 October November 2005 30 31 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 01 02 03 Weekly Features

Sealing documentary provokes bitter attack on Newfoundland

CBC || November 21, 2005

[KDR: I don't think that "sadistic" is the first word I would use to describe Newfies.]

A longtime seal-hunt opponent has described Newfoundlanders as "sadistic" and "embarrassing" to the rest of Canada.

Paul Watson, who heads the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, defended his comments, posted online in response to a National Film Board documentary celebrating sealers.

"I think it's an accurate generalization of Newfoundland. The fact is is that Newfoundland has a history of extermination of species and mismanagement and destruction of its fisheries. That is a fact," Watson said.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

Newfoundland filmmaker Anne Troake has become the target of angry messages and vandalism after her film My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers was shown recently in St. John's.

It's about sealing and her family's history of participation in the industry.

Troake used a recorded phone message in her film to show the kind of reaction her family gets when they defend the sealing industry.

"You people out there you don't even know whose money you are living off of. You're living off of central Canada and Western Canada."

But that call was mild compared with what happened after the documentary was shown.

"Last Saturday night, after I went to bed, a car drove up and somebody threw a brick through my window and drove away. It wasn't an attempted break-in," Troake said.

The window was broken after angry letters about her film were posted on the internet.

Watson says he doesn't condone what's happen to Troake.

Troake said she'll keep showing her film in Newfoundland and Labrador and she's looking to distribute it in other parts of Canada and the U.S.

A member of the filmmaker's family, fisherman and sealing advocate Gary Troake, died at sea in 2000.

About KDR | | Home | | Weekly Features Archive

Weekly

Weekly Features Archive

In Depth

The Number 1 Reason YOU became a Slave

Coming Soon:

9-11

Liberals, Conservatives and NDP