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Canadian TV host Steve Ecklund holds a cougar in a photo from his Facebook page. Ecklund, host of the outdoor show “The Edge,” bragged about hunting a huge cougar in Alberta earlier this month. (Facebook: Cabela’s Ambassador, Steve Ecklund)<\/p>\n

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Ecklund posted several photos of him holding the dead cougar; another of him making a stir-fry from the meat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

December 22, 2017: \u00a0<\/span>A Canadian TV personality is taking heat online after he killed a cougar in northern Alberta. \u00a0Steve Ecklund, who’s the host of the outdoor show The Edge<\/em>,\u00a0bragged about hunting the huge cat earlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“What an unreal ending to a fun filled season,” he wrote on his Facebook page on Dec. 3.<\/p>\n

“Northern Alberta lion with BIG CAT ADVENTURES Brian and Claudette Chorney … can’t thank you guys enough for the eye opener into your world of houndsmen.”<\/p>\n

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Cougar hunting is legal in Alberta from September 1 to the end of February for residents, and from December 1 to the end of February for non-residents. (THE CANADIAN PRESS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ecklund posted several photos of him holding the dead cougar and another of him making a stir-fry from the meat.<\/p>\n

His posts triggered outrage online: dozens of people have criticized the post, including former prime minister Stephen Harper’s wife Laureen Harper \u00a0who wrote via Twitter: ”\u00a0\u2714<\/b><\/span><\/span>@LaureenHarper “<\/span><\/a>What a creep. Chasing a cougar with dogs until they are exhausted then shooting a scared, cornered and tired animal. Must be compensating for something, small penis probably”<\/p>\n

Another facebook user,\u00a0Rich Voysey. wrote “<\/span>A senseless killing … and something to be ashamed of for the rest of your pointless life. Loser!”<\/p>\n

Neither Ecklund nor the Chorneys have responded to requests for comment, but he didn’t back down in subsequent posts about the hunt.<\/p>\n

“If you can guess what post has 900 likes, 450 comments, 13 confirmed death threats, 754 swear words and one very happy hunter in it … I will enter your name into the draw for the new cougar cook book, filled with mouth water recipes for your next mountain lion hunt,” Ecklund wrote in a Dec. 4 post.<\/p>\n

Others on social media defended Ecklund’s right to hunt the cougar.<\/p>\n

“Awesome harvest Steve!” said Facebook user, Mitchell Jones. “Keep up the good work and ignore these simpletons, clearly they haven’t a clue how the world works and are out of touch with reality.”<\/p>\n

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