Charting a new course in a melting Arctic: Why the northern shipping debate is heating up

Where some see a vast expanse of frigid waterways and sea ice, Okalik Eegeesiak sees a highway.

“Inuit are an international people. We did not create the boundaries or borders that we live under,” says the former chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, from her home in Iqaluit.

“We have always travelled through the waters, travelled on the ice, following our food sources.”