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Equine Canada Wants to Know Where Candidates Stand on Key Issues

Equine Canada is asking political candidates where they stand on key issues affecting the Canadian equestrian industry, including its riders, horses, breeders and all its association partners. The 10-point questionnaire has been distributed to all party leaders, former ministers of …

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Equine Foundation of Canada Gives a New Dimension to Research

Thanks to the generous donation from the Equine Foundation of Canada, the Ontario Veterinary College will be upgrading their ultrasound equipment enabling 3-Dimensional imaging.

Images generated by this unique equipment can be viewed and manipulated interactively. Measurements of anatomic and …

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Equine Canada Export Market Development Seminars

The 2011 Equine Canada Annual Convention has been moved up a week this year, and the Breeds & Industry (B&I) Division Assembly, which will be held on the afternoon of Friday, January 28 and all day Saturday, January 29, includes …

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Horse Sport Nominated for Social Media Award

Horse Sport magazine has been nominated for an Equestrian Social Media Award by a marketing company in the UK called Abbeyview Equine. The award recognizes Horse Sport’s Facebook page in the category Best Use of Social Media by a Magazine.…

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Equine Canada Seeks a Program Coordinator — Equine Medications

Equine Canada is very pleased to announce that they are seeking an energetic, well organized professional to fill the newly created position of program coordinator—equine medications at the national office in Ottawa.

Reporting to the chief operating officer, the program …

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Horse Breeders & Owners Conference This Weekend

The annual Horse Breeders & Owners Conference taking place in Red Deer, Alberta, this weekend, and sponsored in part by the Horse Publications Group, boasts a stellar line-up of internationally known speakers on topics such as health, management, behaviour, training …

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Canada’s Equine Code of Practice to be Updated

Equine Canada is pleased to announce the Equine Code Development Committee of 18 stakeholder representatives from eight provinces has been finalized and the next stage of revising the Code of Practice for Horses, last developed in 1998, can begin. Following …

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Alberta Horse Slaughter Plant Closed for Sanitation Reasons

The Canadian Horse Defence Coalition (CHDC) has learned that Bouvry Exports horse slaughter plant in Fort MacLeod, Alberta closed operations on December 3rd to complete renovations related to sanitation.

This news is not surpising.  It is well documented that horse …

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Equine Canada’s Recreational Trail Riders Gain National Voice

Equine Canada is pleased to announce Jack de Wit has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Trails Federation, enhancing and strengthening Equine Canada’s voice for recreational trail riders across the country.

Mr. de Wit, who is …

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Equine Canada Special Bulletin

Equine Canada acknowledges the recent formation of the Canadian Horse Alliance.

By the nature of our interaction with horses we are already much too fragmented as a community.

Our interests are already so divergent between, recreation, agriculture, breeds and industry, …

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Al Humphrey Memorial Ride

Absolutely gorgeous weather greeted the more than 80 riders participating in the 2010 version of the annual Al Humphrey Memorial Ride. This big horse-world event, usually staged on the August 1st long weekend, meanders through the lovely York Regional forest, …