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Nova Scotia

Canadian soprano, conductor Barbara Hannigan among recipients of Polar Prize

Barbara Hannigan, a renowned soprano and conductor hailing from Nova Scotia, was recently honored as one of the recipients of…

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Canada

Thousands take part in Vancouver-born tradition of New Year’s Day Polar Bear Swim

The annual Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver has become a beloved New Year’s Day tradition that has now spread across…

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World

Husband leaps onto polar bear that lunged at wife in surprise attack: police

A heart-stopping incident unfolded in rural Ontario when a Canadian man bravely defended his wife from a polar bear attack.…

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Tech

Man injured protecting wife from polar bear in northern Ontario, police say

A man in Fort Severn First Nation, Ont., was injured Tuesday morning in a polar bear attack, as reported by…

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Canada

‘It’s their area too’: How people in Churchill have learned to live with polar bears

Sgt. Ian Van Nest maneuvers his truck slowly through the streets of Churchill, Man., a rifle secured in the front…

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Canada

As the Arctic warms, some polar bears are being injured by painful ice buildup on their paws: study

Some polar bears living in the far north are turning up with ice-related injuries that, in some cases, seriously affect their…

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Tech

Curious belugas frolic in a warming Hudson Bay that threatens polar bears

Playful large white beluga whales’ happy chirps leap out in an environment and economy threatened by warming water that’s melting…

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Canada

Melting sea ice, disappearing high-fat food sources mean trouble for Hudson Bay polar bears

Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada’s massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region…

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Canada

Polar bear death closes Wild Canada exhibit at Calgary Zoo

The Wild Canada exhibit at the Wilder Institute Calgary Zoo was closed on Friday after one of the zoo’s two polar bears…

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Tech

Grolar bear hybrids in N.W.T. all traced back to same ‘strange’ female polar bear

A family of polar and grizzly bear hybrids, or grolars, in Canada’s western Arctic — which all started with a…

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