MONTREAL — With ice clumping on the sidewalks, with winds swirling between downtown buildings, and with white mountains growing in designated snow-deposit sites across the city, it only feels like the Arctic here. But all of Canada is wondering whether a new Cold War is brewing 1,456 miles from here in the real Arctic.
That's almost precisely the distance between Hartford, Connecticut, and Miami — but suddenly fears about the Arctic are close to home to Canadians, even the 90 percent of them who live within 150 miles of the American border.
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