Ontario canoeist survives bear attack 22 Jul 2006 CBC News A man escaped from a marauding bear deep in northern Ontario Friday after his dog rushed to his defence. Tom Tilley, 55, of Waterloo, Ont. killed the nearly 90-kilogram bear by jumping on its back and stabbing it with a 15-cm hunting knife. But Tilley and his dog were both bitten in the incident. "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...