On Saturday Canada issued new regulations for its annual seal slaughter, banning the skinning of live seals and forbidding the use of the spiked weapon called a hakapik on seals over one-year-old.— Planetsave
I was armed only with a wooden club, a hakapik, a Glock 22PT pistol and an AK-47, just in case my wily foe put up the kind of fight one would expect from a small, furry animal with flippers.— theday.Com - Breaking News
I hoped the club or the hakapik - designed to accomplish just what it sounds like - would do the trick, because if you mess up a seal's skin too much the Canadian government deducts $2 for each bullet hole.— theday.Com - Breaking News
This year they'll probably cut us off way before then, thanks to all those whining Humane Society-types, which is too bad because I almost have enough saved up for a new hakapik.— theday.Com - Breaking News
The PETA version shows the colourful Olympic inuksuk in the act of clubbing a baby seal to death with a hakapik, in parody of a harvesting technique used in the Gulf of St. Lawrence by Newfoundland and other sealers - but not at all by Inuit.

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