In the vast expanse of northern Canada, where winter temperatures plunge to minus 50 degrees and communities sit hundreds of kilometers from the nearest road, gravel runways serve as lifelines. For the 117 remote communities that depend entirely on air transport, these unpaved airstrips are not infrastructure luxuries but essential arteries for survival. They carry food, medicine, construction materials, and critically, up to 100,000 medevac flights annually. 120 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 12, ISSUE 08
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