When Nanuk met nanuq: Dog and polar bear come nose to nose in Black Tickle

A Labrador family is breathing a sigh of relief after their pet dog walked away without a scratch after a close encounter with a polar bear.

Victoria Keefe was at her grandparents’ home in Black Tickle — a tiny community on an island off the Labrador coast, about 700 kilometres northwest of St. John’s — for dinner Sunday when her grandmother spotted something unusual outside through a window.

“She has a bit of a problem with her sight. And so she looked out and she thought to herself, ‘Oh, what a really pretty white dog,'” Keefe said. “She looked again proper, and as she looked out,