A polar bear is seen near a North Warning System radar installation on Brevoort Island in Nunavut, in this handout photo taken by Christopher Best on Aug. 7, 2024. Best was working as part of a fuel tank cleaning crew at the installation and was fatally attacked by two polar bears on Aug. 8, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Christopher Best (Mandatory Credit)

Worker interested in taking polar bear photos at Nunavut site before he was killed

by The Canadian Press November 9, 2025

written by The Canadian Press November 9, 2025

By Rob Drinkwater 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 sh...

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