Christopher Best told his family not to worry about the pictures of polar bears he was snapping and posting on social media as he worked at a radar site in Nunavut.

“Chris said, ‘Well, yeah, they’re not close to us,'” his mother, Shelly Cox, said he told his stepfather on a call shortly before he was killed by a bear on Aug. 8, 2024.

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“‘God, Dad,’ he said, ‘You know I know the difference, right?'”

A report into Best’s death by Nasittuq Corporation, the company that operates North Warning System’ sites stretching from Yukon to eastern Lab

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