Rebeka Breder: We can't just keep killing 'habituated' bears

This season has been a devastating one for bears in Metro Vancouver. About 64 bears have already been killed — I intentionally say “killed”, instead of “euthanized”. Euthanasia means a “mercy killing”. None of these were mercy killings — all of these deaths could have been avoided. In the last two weeks alone, an entire family (sow and her two cubs) was killed in Coquitlam, and another two bears in Port Moody (one of which had cubs, who are now orp