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Melting ice roads cut off Indigenous communities in northern Canada

Melting ice roads cut off Indigenous communities in Canada’s far north as unseasonably warm weather on Friday also saw its largest city, Toronto, break a winter heat record. Communities in Ontario and neighboring Manitoba provinces declared a state of emergency as the warm spell made the network of ice roads — which across Canada spans more than 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) between dispersed populations — unpassable. Many remote communities in Canada’s north depend on ice […]