This bus goes down Dorans Road for the French Students ONLY. I was told for years that Dorans road was not safe enough and has no turn around and is a dead end road and it was just not safe for the busses.
Doesn't seem to bother the french school board because for the past 2 years they have been sending the busses for their students making sure they are safe. Now for some reason its not safe for two busses to pass on Dorans Road. Most bus drivers feel they are putting their children in harmsway and are very uncomfortable dropping them off so far from home.

Some things just don't add up. Help keep all school children safe dispite what language they speak.

Chi

But our children have to carry their lunches to school

Our children have to walk to and from school with all these bears in our bushes.. Just not right. Only asking for the same rights as the French students who get picked up at their doors..

Our children used to get picked up 1998 what happened to that..

Timmins and district Hosptial on guard Bears are opening their automatic doors so they had to shut them off

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Aug-06-2008

Woman attacked by black bear in Coquitlam

Bear killed by police after mauling woman who was gardening at her home Kelly Sinoski and Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun Published: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 METRO VANCOUVER - A 35-year-old Coquitlam woman is in hospital after being mauled by a black bear outside her home this morning.

The woman was gardening when the bear attacked shortly before 10 a.m. at her home in the 1500-block of Bramble Lane in Westwood Plateau, Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Tony Farahbakhchian said.

“The bear attacked her, bit her and she screamed,” he said. Next-door neighbour Amy Lo, 18, said she was awoken this morning by the woman screaming.

"I looked out the window and saw a bear on top of her," she recalled of her neighbour, whom she called Katie - she said she didn't know the woman's last name.

Katie was apparently gardening in the front yard when the black bear suddenly began mauling the woman, who neighbours said had her scalp torn and was bleeding heavily.

"She was covered in blood," Lo recalled, adding thre bear also mauled the woman's leg.

Blood stains remain on the sidewalk in front of the $900,000 home, which is across the street from Bramblewood elementary school. and one door away from Bramblewood Daycare.

Another neighbour, Bill Dick, who has lived in the area since it was built in 1991, said there has been a problem bear in the neighbourhhod for some time, which has been aggresively feeding from garbage cans.

"I saw him mauling a garbage can at 3 a.m. One night," he said.

"I'm glad they got it," Dick said.

A 12-year-old boy, Christian Cillo, was driving by with his dad Mike when they saw the bear attack.

"My dad got out and started throwing rocks at the bear," he said.

"He hit it once."

The woman managed to get inside her home and call 911, police said.

She was taken to Royal Columbian Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries but is suffering from several bites to her body, police said.

Police fired several shots at the bear killing it.

“The bear was still on scene and acting in an aggressive manner, facing police,” Farahbakhchian said. “Because of the threat to the neighbours, we didn’t want to run that risk — it had to be dealt with immediately.”

Farahbakhchian said the attack was random but reminded people to not leave garbage outside to keep the bears away.

“We’re quite shocked by it,” he said.

The number of human encounters with bears is high across B.C. this year, according to the Ministry of Environment.

The long winter and cool spring has meant hungry bears have come closer to towns looking for food because of a the late berry crop.

Conservation officers have reported roughly four times more bear encounters this year compared to last season.

Bears are attracted to food, garbage and fruit on trees and on the ground as well as less obvious items like birdseed and leftover food stuck to the inside of a barbecue.

If a bear finds food on a front lawn, it is bound to return later looking for more.

June 1, 2008
Black bear kills elderly woman in northern Quebec"

Conservation officers in northern Quebec are still on the hunt for a black bear that killed a 70-year-old woman Friday evening, while the victim's widower is still working through the horror of what he witnessed.

Family members said Cecile Lavoie and her husband, Alexander Lavoie, 73, were in remote country nearly 600 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, where they often spent the weekend fishing or hunting deer.

Her daughter says her mother felt at home in the woods and on the banks of the Theo River, where the bear attacked.

As she scouted a fishing hole for walleye, the elderly woman became separated from her husband. Barely 10 minutes later, he felt something was amiss and went searching for his wife of 51 years.

Metres away, he came upon the nightmarish scene of her body being dragged into the forest by a bear.

Lavoie chased the animal for nearly 200 metres and managed to scare it away from his wife. He tried, but was unable to carry her limp and bleeding body back through the dense foilage.

He left her and went for help. When he arrived with police, the bear had returned and was combative, officers said.

"The bear was still around and the bear was aggressive," said Sgt. Gregory Gomez del Prado, a spokesman for the Quebec provincial police. "It was dark, so it was hard to find the woman's body."

Police were forced to delay attempts to retrieve Lavoie's remains until Saturday morning, after the animal retreated into the deep woods north of La Sarre.

Conservation experts set traps Friday night, but police say as of Sunday night the bear was still at large.

Black bear kills woman camper north of Chapleau, Ont.
Last Updated: Wednesday,
September 7, 2005 | 10:00 PM ET
CBC News

A black bear -- that may have learned to prey on humans -- killed a woman and injured her husband at a provincial park in northern Ontario.

Police and wildlife officials were on the hunt for the wounded bear Wednesday and campers have been ordered out of the back country of Missinaibi Lake Provincial Park.

30-year-old Jacqueline Perry and Mark Jordan, also 30, were attacked at a campsite in the provincial park, about 80 kilometres north of Chapleau.

Ontario Provincial Police said that while the bear was attacking Perry, Jordan managed to stab it a few times with a Swiss Army knife in a frantic effort to keep it from dragging his wife into the woods. Jordan was flown to hospital in Sudbury.

Perry was a family doctor at Grandview Medical Centre in Cambridge, Ont.

The couple were on a two-week holiday, camping and kayaking at a remote campsite when the black bear attacked.

OPP Const. Karen Farand said after fighting off the bear, the injured Jordan carried Perry to their kayak and began to paddle to the nearest campsite. He yelled for help and a father and his 30-year-old son from Pennsylvania, heard him. Jordan put his wife into their boat.

About a kilometre away, they flagged down another boat, which carried a doctor from North Carolina and an off-duty police officer. The doctor tried to treat Perry while the boat continued on to the park office, about 10 kilometres away. But by then Farand said Perry had succumbed to her injuries.

"I've lived here all my life and this is a first for me," said Farand. "I can't even imagine what (Perry and Jordan) went through."

Keith Scott, a bear expert with the Ministry of Natural Resources, said such attacks are "very rare. There's only been four fatalities in Ontario through black bears dating back to about 1978," he said. "This one in this particular case, it's early in the investigation, but it appears to be a predatory-type bear. These bears have learned to and often prey on humans."

There have been a number of bear attacks across Canada this summer.

The attack happened on Thursday as the family was near a waterfall in the Cherokee National Forest, a massive park near the border with North Carolina.

Witnesses say the bear grabbed the boy in its mouth as people in the park tried to stop the attack with rocks and sticks. The little girl ran away, but was later found dead in a trail about 90 metres away with the bear standing over her. Wildlife officers shot at the bear, but are not sure whether they hit the animal, said a spokesperson for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. The boy and his mother, who are from Ohio, were flown to a hospital in Chattanooga where they are in critical condition. Officials have evacuated and closed off the park and have laid out buns and doughnuts in an attempt to lure the bear into the open. Park rangers say the bear may have a disease that affects its behaviour because it is so unusual for a black bear to attack humans.

Black bear kills baby girl at N.Y. state cottage

A five-month-old girl was killed Monday after a black bear dragged her into the woods in upstate New York.

Esther Schwimmer was in her stroller near the porch of a vacation home in the Catskill Mountains when the bear approached. The baby's mother rushed her two- and four-year-old into the cottage, and returned to see the empty stroller.

Witnesses say the bear had the baby in its mouth as it slowly walked into the woods. They threw rocks at the bear and chased it in an effort to rescue the child.

When the bear did drop the infant, she had severe head and neck injuries. She died shortly after at a local hospital.

New York state conservation officers shot and killed the black bear. Tests concluded the animal was not rabid.

The state's top wildlife official said it's the first time he remembers a black bear killing a human.

Black bear kills teen near Yellowknife Last Updated: Sunday, June 3, 2001 | 9:17 PM ET

CBC News

A weekend camping trip in the Northwest Territories turned to tragedy Saturday when an 18-year-old man was mauled to death by a black bear. Kyle Harry of Yellowknife was camping with a 14-year-old female friend about 25 kilometres east of the city when the bear approached them, the RCMP said.

The bear caught Harry and mauled him to death.

Teams search the area around the site of the attack

But the girl was able to escape through dense bush and find a nearby highway, where she was picked up by passing motorists.

She was treated in Yellowknife for injuries she received while running from the bear.

Emergency response teams were sent to the area and found Harry's body about 200 metres from the campsite.

Canoeist stabs bear to death in Ontario
Last Updated: Saturday, July 22, 2006 | 8:34 PM ET
CBC News

A man stabbed a black bear to death with a 15-cm hunting knife, saying he knew he would otherwise become "lunch" after it attacked him and his dog on a canoeing portage in northern Ontario.

Tom Tilley, a 55-year-old from Waterloo, Ont., said his American Staffordshire dog Sam growled a warning, then rushed to his defence as the bear came at them on a trail north of Wawa on Friday.

Tom Tilley and his dog, shown in an undated photo, escaped an attack by a black bear while portaging near Wawa, Ont. (Waterloo Region Record/Canadian Press) As Sam battled with the nearly 90-kilogram bear, Tilley jumped on its back and stabbed it with his knife.

"Love is a very powerful emotion and my thought right away was: 'You're not going to kill my dog,'" Tilley told the Waterloo Region Record.

"I really consider my dog a hero. Without that first warning, I would have had the bear clamping down on my neck."

An avid outdoorsman, Tilley was four days into a 12-day canoe trip. He said he heard Sam growl and noticed the bear closing in on him. He waved his arms and slowly backed away. But the bear came closer, cutting off his escape route.

"That's when I knew I had a serious problem.… I was lunch," he said. "The bear took a few steps down the trail and clamped its mouth on the back of my dog. It gave me the quick opportunity I needed to run around to the back of the bear, get on its back and with my knife start stabbing it."

After making sure the animal was dead, Tilley realized that both he and dog had been bitten.

'That's when I knew I had a serious problem.… I was lunch.' -Tom Tilley, a 55-year-old from Waterloo, Ont.He dragged his canoe across a short portage and paddled for about an hour before he came across a pair of Americans who had a satellite phone. They called for help and two hours later, a cargo plane arrived to take Tilley and Sam to Wawa for medical attention.

Ok so do we send knives with our kids to the hightway and back!

Black bear down in Pickering, Ont. By IRENE THOMAIDIS -- Sun Media The Toronto Sun

Black bear wandering down Bronte Square in Pickering. (SUN MEDIA/John Service) Did you see the bear walking through your neighbourhood? Did you take any pictures? If so, we would like to hear from you. E-mail us at torsun.citydesk@sunmedia.ca or call us at 416-947-2211.

Ministry of Natural Resource officers have tranquilized a bear which has been wandering around residential neighbourhoods in Pickering for days.

The animal was spotted this afternoon on Bronte Sq., in the Liverpool and Kingston Rds. area. There was also a bear spotting in the Altona Rd. and Finch Ave. neighbourhood two days ago.

Two area schools - Vaughan Willard Public School and William Dunbar Public School - were in lock down earlier in the day as a precaution.

Dragged from tent by a bear logging worker survives
Author: Mike Aiken
Source: Winnipeg Sun September 22, 2005

A logging company employee is recovering in a Winnipeg hospital following a vicious attack from a black bear in northwestern Ontario.

About 4 a.m. yesterday, employees of the Moose Creek Reforestation working in the Pakwash Forest between Ear Falls and Red Lake -- about 150 km northeast of Kenora -- were asleep when one of them was dragged from their tent into the woods.

"This bear meant business. He wasn't going to back off," Bill Skene said.

While the others tried to beat away the predator from their colleague, the animal reared and threatened to swat his tormentors, before dragging the man farther into the bush.

Fortunately, the employees were eventually successful in saving the man, who was rushed to an ambulance for medical attention.

Puncture wounds

Medical staff at Red Lake transferred him to Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, where the victim was reported to be in stable condition, with puncture wounds and abrasions to his back, upper arm, head and shoulder.

His name was not released.

"This is terrible. Something has to be done. There's too many bears out there," said Skene.

Skene, a veteran of the logging business, said he's seen more nuisance bears this year than in his 20-year career. Although equipped with pepper spray in case of an attack, the employee never had a chance to use it, Skene said, adding the man had been working in the bush for much of the past eight years.

Poor berry crops

"There's a bear problem in Ontario and the government has to deal with it," Skene said.

The attack is likely related to poor berry crops and a lack of food in the woods this summer, causing the bear to do unusual things in search of food, said Norm Hissop, Kenora spokesman for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.

It has nothing to do with the demise of the spring bear hunt in Ontario, he said.

"That's the knee-jerk reaction," said Hissop.

While Hissop reported only one incident in Kenora last year and six across his MNR territory last year, his statistics are already well above those levels for this year, he said.

However, Hissop noted there are similar problems in Manitoba -- even though the province has a spring and fall bear hunt in place.

The attack is the latest in a number of reports from across the country, including attacks on farm animals in northwestern Ontario earlier in the month.

In Manitoba, Harvey Robinson, 68, was killed Aug. 26 after encountering a black bear near his home in the Rural Municipality of St. Clements. Earlier this month, Lac du Bonnet farmer Dennis Heckert and his dog were also attacked but lived to tell the tale.

How to survive a BEAR encounter

CBC News Online | June 6, 2005

The first thing to know about bears is they are unpredictable. There is no sure way to survive a bear attack, whether it's a grizzly or a black bear, though the lighter-coloured, humped grizzly is bigger and more aggressive.

If you spot a bear at a distance and can get away without it noticing you, do it. Quietly. Shouting at or attempting to scare away a bear that is unaware of you could provoke an attack.

If you spot a bear and can't leave the area without the bear spotting you, alert the bear to your presence and do what you can to show it that you're human. Most bears have encountered humans at some point and know what we look and sound like. Speak to the bear and wave your arms slowly. And back away slowly.

If you're within 15 metres (50 feet) of the bear when you encounter it, forget about identifying yourself as a person. It knows. Just back away slowly. If it's a grizzly bear, climbing a tree is sometimes an option, but it doesn't guarantee safety, as was seen in Canmore, Alta., in June 2005. Isabelle Dube climbed a tree to get away from a bear she encountered on a trail. The bear pulled Dube out of the tree and she was killed.

Do not try to out swim a bear.

If a bear begins to approach you or charge you, stand your ground. Bears often will bluff a charge, stopping abruptly or veering off.

If the bear is going to attack you, the best protection is a gun. If the threat is real, it's best to shoot to kill. Don't go for the head, go for the heart. If the bear is broadside, aim for the shoulder. If the bear's coming straight at you with its head low to the ground, aim for the back of the neck between the shoulders. Keep firing until the bears dead because a wounded bear is very dangerous.

If you don't have a gun, there are two things to do, depending on the bear.

If it's a grizzly, play dead.

Recommended positions for playing dead: Lie on your side, curled into a ball, legs drawn tightly to your chest, hands clasped behind your neck. Lie flat on the ground, face down, hands clasped behind your neck. Remain in these positions even if the bear drags you.

Do not play dead if it's a black bear, or a grizzly that regards you as prey. It that case, the best thing to do is fight back.

Recommended ways to fight back with a black bear or a grizzly that regards you as prey:

Act aggressively. Defend yourself with whatever is available – a baseball bat, rake, tent pole, axe, anything. Try to appear dominant. Shout, jump up and down, wave your arms, hold up your jacket or backpack to make yourself look bigger.

Most bears avoid people. Old or wounded bears can be desperate, either in pain or starving. Bears used to the proximity of people, those that show no fear of humans, can be especially dangerous. Female bears with cubs aggressively defend their young.

Bears try to scare intruders by huffing, panting, hissing, growling and jaw-popping. They will stare at you with their heads lowered and ears laid back. They will slap their feet on the ground.

Bears standing on their hind legs swinging their heads from side to side are trying to pick up scents to determine who you are. Bears do not charge on their hind legs.

A hunting bear shows no fear and does not bother with displays. It approaches its prey at a fast walk, or follows or circles the prey. Kids with lunches on their backs...

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