Art by Tom Forget

There are no roads in and out.

Only planes can get you there, and of course, boats. But that's only if Frobisher Bay isn’t frozen over (which it is for about nine months of the year).

Canada’s northernmost city is closer to Greenland, nearer to the North Pole, than it is to Toronto.

“It feels like we’re on the moon,” Valerie Hill, general manager of The Storehouse Bar and Grill, told me in a call.

Although the residents of Iqaluit have spotty cell service, a climate that’s more fit for polar bears and almost total darkness for much of the winter -- they do, during these late, exceedingly exciting October nights, have their pennant-winning Blue Jays.

And during the team’s greatest playoff run in 32 years, they mostly gather to watch in the warmth of The Storehouse Ba

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