Inside Canada’s polar bear jail

Churchill, Canada, is nicknamed the “polar bear capital of the world” with good reason. It’s the only town in the world where people and polar bears live in close proximity — and the only town that has a polar bear “jail”, aka the Polar Bear Holding Facility. This former military base lies on the edge of the Arctic in the Manitoba province. It’s home to about 900 permanent residents and roughly the same number of polar bears that live on the ice of the nearby Hudson Bay… read more >