Luckily, I won’t be covering this story alone. Canadian Geographic, as the project’s host media organization, is investing staff time and funding. We will be backed up by the Pulitzer Center’s remarkable team of experts and editors, and will have a team of world-class filmmakers along for the ride.

Typically, journalists get tips, report and research, write, fact-check, and then publish stories. But this series will attempt to go deeper as we make a concerted effort not to replicate mistakes journalists have made, specifically within Indigenous communities, in the past.

To start, Indigenous peoples of the North, including the Inuit, Yupik, Aleut and Sámi, know more about living in the Arctic and its rapid changes than anyone else. We regard Indigenous traditional knowledge as a form of science — as information gathered over time, used to support a nuanced understanding of the world — and will bring the Mi’kmaw concept of Two-Eyed-Seeing, developed by Eskasoni First Nation’s Albert Marshall, to our storytelling. In every email, interview request and reporting trip, we will consider reciprocity, trauma-informed reporting, and how to conduct ourselves as journalists in a less extractive way than the craft is often practiced, particularly in the North.

I’m no stranger to reporting on the complexities of how global trade networks transform our world. In my first book, Kings of Their Own Ocean, I earned the trust of hardened, lifelong bluefin tuna fishermen whose professions had landed them in the crosshairs of international controversy. Work on ships, particularly in the north, is difficult, dangerous, and requires highly skilled expertise. Most of us rely on goods shipped from places we never think about. The companies trying to move those goods — and, increasingly, cruise-ship tourists — through the Northwest Passage aren’t villains. They’re just one player in this complex story. We will do our very best to be persistent, careful, and contextual as we strive to tell the whole of it.

And this is where you come in.

Below you’ll find a shareable and confidential tip form where you can share your stories and curiosities about the future of Canada’s northernmost regions. Have questions you’d like us to ask decision-makers and those in communities past the Arctic Circle? We want to hear from you.

This series is produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network.