{"id":134597,"date":"2026-07-18T15:11:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/134597\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:11:55","slug":"bear-kills-2-people-in-northern-saskatchewan-ministry-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/134597\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear kills 2 people in northern Saskatchewan, ministry confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A bear\u00a0is responsible for\u00a0the death of two people at a McTavish Lake\u00a0in northern Saskatchewan, the provincial Ministry of Community Safety confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784387515_696_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two people were found Wednesday by RCMP in La Ronge, a news release from the Saskatchewan government says.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784387515_106_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter careful investigation, conservation officers have located and euthanized the bear suspected to be involved in the incident,\u201d it said, noting the bear\u2019s body will be examined at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Environment<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said it will not publicly identify the two people who died, as an investigation by the Saskatchewan Coroners Service and provincial conservation officer service is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Police will not probe the deaths further, as they are not considered suspicious, the province said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A bear\u00a0is responsible for\u00a0the death of two people at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19192,17,234,2393],"class_list":["post-134597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-bear","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-saskatchewan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}