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After a nine-year-old boy was mauled by a coyote in a quiet North Kildonan neighbourhood Saturday evening, many Winnipeggers have concerns about what to do if they have a similar encounter with a wild animal within city limits. FortWhyte Alive’s Barrett Miller told 680 CJOB’s The Start that attacks by …
Read More »Close encounter with humpback whale terrifies — and delights — B.C. family
A B.C. family had a thrilling experience off the coast of Vancouver Island when a humpback whale spent almost an hour rubbing up against their boat, spinning around, and flapping its fins. Aleks Mount was whale watching with his family on Tuesday, northeast of Campbell River, when the whale got friendly. …
Read More »Sask. man’s video of close encounter with bear goes viral
Curtis Matwishyn was hoping to snap a few photos of a young black bear in the forest near Waskesiu Lake, in northern Saskatchewan, earlier this month. But the wildlife photographer soon found himself a bit too close for comfort to the animal. Matwishyn and his fiancée were driving back to Waskesiu, …
Read More »Police encounter people with pellet guns ‘with regularity across Canada,’ criminologist says
Investigators probing the fatal police shooting of a man in Toronto Thursday will have to factor in the recent mass murder at a school in Texas, and also encounters Canadian police have with people carrying pellet guns that look like the real thing, a criminologist says. Encounters with weapons that appear lethal but aren’t “occur with regularity …
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