Why don't girls play guitar?

According to a study by the BBC, when school children pick an instrument to play, their choices are stongly influenced by gender stereotypes. So more girls play the flute and more boys play the guitar. I have many...

Seals of Disapproval

On November 15, 2007 I reported on the Junk Science Studies of Overfishing by Newfoundlanders, much to the dismay  of some readers who still believe  newfoundlanders in  their  little 6 meter...

Singer Harpist, Claire Roche, returns from Australia Tour and prepares for he...

After a wonderful recording and concert tour during September and early October, Claire Roche is returning to Ireland to plan her recording and concert projects for the rest of this year and through 2008. These will be to the USA for a month next March, back to...

Claire Roche, singer harpist, performed a spectacular concert within the Jeno...

Claire Roche, of Dublin, Ireland, has become very popular in Eastern Australia especially through the release of her CD, "Dancing In The Wind", a set of W.B. Yeats poems set to music and...

Over 1000 turn up to create a human harp at Tara

An experience to last a lifetime An experience that those there will not forget through there lives. 1:00 pm the people arrived on Tara Hill and issued with white all body suits with hoods. One size to...

Canadian Sealers in Newfoundland Ice Floes -Trapped

Few environmental organizations are going to the ice to protest this year. Environment News ServiceAccording to a Newfoundland-Labrador radio news report"Some 20 crew members have been taken off four vessels...

Canadian seal hunt scaled back

This announcement--which reduces this year's quota for seal hunters by one quarter--will likely draw a lot of ire from environmentalists and activists, who were looking for the hunt to be canceled altogether. "The...

The annual seal hunt officially starts at 6 am on Saturday

It appears there might be a danger of drowning to both the hunters and the seal pups. The ice is much more broken up than previous years.

Did the seal pups drown when the thin ice broke up?

The hunt starts at 6 am on Saturday 25th March. But only if they sit there and wait for the hunters.

Canada’s Seal Hunt - Paying the Price

ProtectSeals has advocated for a boycott of Canadian seafood.

Canada hunters head for seal cull

Earns 16.5 million Canadian dollars in meat and pelt sales. Also earnings from seal penises sold to Asian countries as aphrodisiacs.

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