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  • Canada's new Firearms Act – what about our hunters of food?

    06/05/2001 1:37:36 PM PDT · by laissezfirearm · 14+ views
    CBC ^ | No date provided | Martin O'Malley & David Moses
    [Here's the meat of the article (so to speak):] In Canada's North, the situation is substantially different. Most of the hunting is for food, not sport – certainly not for heads and antlers. Some 60 per cent of calories consumed in the new territory of Nunavut come from hunted food, most of it hunted with firearms. A similar situation applies in the Northwest Territories and Yukon. Ben Kovic, head of the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, says 70 to 80 per cent of his family's food is "country food." He has two daughters and three sons, four of whom hunt with ...