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I love how they immediately take this to a climate change issue by the second sentence.

But experts caution that changing environmental conditions will lead to a shift in where and when polar bears are spotted, increasing the risk of surprise encounters.

Literally the second sentence in this story. It's not until half way thought the article they mention this the northern most community is Ontario and polar bear sightings are common.

Rather then tell the story of what happened and then add at the end something like "scientists are concerned that changing weather may lead to more encounters" it's line two. This is done on purpose to try and link this attack to climate change despite climate change have zero correlation with this incident.

Anyone who has been around any type of bear (or wild animal) knows that surprising and animal is a sure way to lead to a confrontation. Looks like this poor couple came out of their house and the bear was right there.