Canada wants to build up its long-neglected Arctic. The hard question is how

<p>Ottawa wants to modernize a region in the north that’s about six times the size of Texas, ‘just like in the 1800s’</p><p>Picture an Arctic territory, marginalized by its own country, almost entirely lacking roads, ports and power sources, but rich in mining potential and suddenly feeling vulnerable to outside threats.</p><p>It’s not <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/greenland">Greenland</a>; it’s the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/canada">Canadian</a> Arctic.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/canada-arctic-development-carney">Continue reading...</a>