The polar bear capital of the world has multibillion-dollar megaproject ambitions
“I sleep well at night,” Mike Spence says over breakfast at the Seaport Hotel, which he co-owns. The mayor of Churchill, Man., he also co-owns Wat’chee Expeditions, which has a lodge near Wapusk National Park, and he’s the chair of Arctic Gateway Group, a private company that owns the Port of Churchill, the site of a proposed new multibillion-dollar megaproject...