Polar bear capital of world has multibillion-dollar megaproject ambitions

Be Giant: This is the business plan: an alternative to busy ports at Vancouver, Montreal and Saint John, N.B.; a shorter route to Europe, South America and Africa; and, crucially, a symbol of Canadian sovereignty in the North, a working base of maritime operations. Russia has 13 Arctic ports. China is bragging about a Polar Silk Road, its own Arctic shipping strategy. Canada has just this one northern deepwater port: Churchill (although Ottawa wants to build a new one at Grays Bay, in Nunavut)…