By Nick Leeson ( March 25, 2020, 1:46 PM EDT) -- The fabled Northwest Passage, connecting the world’s two largest oceans along the northern coast of North America through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is fast becoming a present-day reality. Non-Inuit have dreamed of using the passage as a commercial shipping lane since long before Franklin’s lost expedition. But the presence of year-round ice left the passage largely unnavigable and kept those dreams at bay. Until now....