BEAR CUBS FOUND IN WASHROOM TO BE RETURNED TO WILD

The three black bear cubs found in a Banff public washroom last spring are slated to return to the national park in early summer. The bruins have been undergoing rehabilitation at the Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Ontario since mid-2017. They have since woken up after their winter slumber but haven’t fully come out of hibernation. “They’ll sort of wake up if you look in on them, but they’re pretty groggy and not totally with it, so we don’t want to disturb them,” said Howard Smith, managing director of Aspen Valley. Working out the logistics of moving the bears back to Banff is in the works, Smith said. The trio were found in a bathroom at Vermillion Lakes just outside of Banff on April 1, 2017, and a search for their mother proved fruitless.