{"id":106390,"date":"2025-08-29T22:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106390\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:21:06","slug":"aggressive-bear-in-westfort-sedated-by-mnr-for-relocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106390\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggressive bear in Westfort sedated by MNR for relocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thunder Bay police responded to a call related to the bear in the Heather Crescent area<\/p>\n<p>THUNDER BAY \u2013\u00a0\u00a0A bear in a south-side neighbourhood was sedated by Ministry of Natural Resources officers on Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thunder Bay police responded to a call related to an aggressive bear in the Heather Crescent area and said the MNR had been contacted to sedate and relocate the animal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to sedate the bear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To prevent bear encounters, visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/prevent-bear-encounters-bear-wise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MNR&#8217;s Bear Wise website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. More details will be provided as they become available.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thunder Bay police responded to a call related to the bear in the Heather Crescent area THUNDER BAY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-106390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}