A former conservation officer who refused to kill two bear cubs has hit another setback in his decade-long fight to get his job back.
Bryce Casavant refused to kill the cubs in 2015 after he euthanized their mother in Port Hardy, where it had been eating garbage in a mobile home park. He was fired, but the cubs were later rehabilitated and released back to the wild.
He agreed to a settlement in 2016, but since then has been fighting to have parts of it nullified so he can work again as a conservation officer. He believes his dismissal was supposed to be temporary, and recently filed a court challenge to access union documents that could vindicate him.
However, the judge dismissed his arguments, pointing out there are other ways he can access the documents he wants.
Casavant currently works as a lecturer at Royal Roads University. He earned his doctorate in Social Sciences in 2020.
