> that doesn't explain northern alberta and the southern part of the hudson bay being abandoned. you're also talking about permafrost. northern alberta has the oil sands. which is the only reason anyone is up there. other areas up north are either involved in resource extraction, fishing, or they work for the government or are basically "first nations" living off the government. also, the far north has a massive mosquito problem. in alaska, they called mosquitoes the "state bird". they are swarms of them flying through the air like locusts, and they can even kill the wildlife by basically sucking them dry.
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