The report says there had previously been no known fatalities or injuries from a bear attack during operation of the North Warning System or its predecessor, the DEW Line, for seven decades.

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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. Article content

“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. Article content Article content

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

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

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