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Jul 9, 2026
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When you’re enjoying the great outdoors, put down your phone – and carry a can of bear spray
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OPINION
When you’re enjoying the great outdoors, put down your phone – and carry a can of bear spray
TRINA MOYLES
SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL
PUBLISHED 45 MINUTES AGO
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A grizzly bear fishes along a river in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park near Bella Coola, B.C., in 2010. A study in Alaska found that bear spray successfully stopped bears’ undesirable behaviour 92 per cent of the time when used on grizzly bears, 90 per cent for black bears, and 100 per cent for polar bears.
JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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