on Quebec's Lower North Shore. The nearest hospital is in Blanc Sablon, 200 kms. away, by aircraft. (Google Maps) Residents in the area wouldn't flinch if it was a black bear, McKinnon said.

After a three-year investigation, Quebec ... black bear gallbladder-trafficking network. The poaching ring allegedly operated in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Mauricie, Laval and Quebec's North Shore.

Quebec provincial police are warning people in the town of Madeleine-Centre to stay in their homes after a report that a polar bear was spotted ... on Quebec's Lower North Shore, several hundred ...

The bears – including some that appear injured or gaunt – are making their way out of their forest dens and into the urban periphery, the North Shore Black Bear Society says. Typically ...

"We're not dealing with a black bear or a moose or deer in the city ... Polar bears have been spotted occasionally in coastal regions on Quebec's Lower North Shore, several hundred kilometres north of ...