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Canada’s defence minister says military upgrades part of plan to strengthen...
Canada’s Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan looks on as a technician fires up a generator at Canadian Forces Station Alert, Canada’s northernmost military base. (Mario De Ciccio/Radio-Canada) Canadian...
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Chinese-made equipment in Canada’s Arctic ships under scrutiny
The Royal Canadian Navy’s first Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship, the future HMCS Harry DeWolf, at Irving Shipbuilding’s Halifax Shipyard. (The Canadian Press) Canada’s international trade minister...
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Norway’s experience with F-35 fighter jets offers lesson for Canada
First Norwegian Armed Forces Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II, known as AM-1 Joint Strike Jet Fighter, is unveiled during the rollout celebration at Lockheed Martin production facility in Fort Worth,...
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Canada, U.S. must do more to check Russian military in the Arctic, says NORAD...
A Russia Tu-160 bomber stands on the runway at Engels Air Base near Saratov, about 700 kilometers (450 miles) southeast of Moscow, Aug. 7, 2008. (Misha Japaridze/The Associated Press) The American...
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Blog – The Arctic shipping route no one is talking about
Is the Transpolar Passage the shipping lane of the future? (Mia Bennett/Cryopolitics) By mid-century – and perhaps by 2035 – a Transpolar Passage will open across the Arctic Ocean via the North Pole....
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Premier in Arctic Canada to push Ottawa for more military and icebreakers in...
Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod in Ottawa on Oct 3, 2017. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press) Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod is laying out a vision for the North’s future that includes...
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Blog – At Arctic Circle Forum, China shows Arctic geopolitics are above Mike...
China’s Arctic strategy focuses on policy and economic aspects rather than military and territorial control, says Cryopolitics’ Mia Bennett. In this picture, a Chinese worker looks on as a cargo ship...
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Justin Trudeau, Mike Pompeo discussed Arctic cooperation during Thursday meeting
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Trudeau’s office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 22, 2019. (Chris Wattie/Reuters) Canadian...
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As China adapts to a melting Arctic, Shanghai prepares for the worst
For Shanghai, China, rising sea levels from Greenland’s melting glaciers are bad news. (Thomas Nilsen/The Independent Barents Observer) China’s claims to be a near-Arctic state is not all about a Polar...
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Experts look at Arctic policies of region’s key players ahead of Halifax...
People attend the float out ceremony of the nuclear-powered icebreaker Ural at the Baltic shipyard in Saint Petersburg on May 25, 2019. (Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images) The future of the Arctic in an...
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Canadian navy receives its first new Arctic and offshore patrol ship
HMCS Harry deWolf heads from the Irving-owned Halifax Shipyard on its way to being delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy dockyard in Halifax on Wednesday, July 31, 2020. The vessel is the first of the...
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COVID-19 blamed as work on Canadian Arctic military port first promised in...
Then-prime minister Stephen Harper looks down the shoreline in the Arctic port of Nanisivik, Nunavut, in August 2007. Harper first announced plans to build the Nanisivik deep-water port, along with up...
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Allies testing naval readiness in Canada’s Arctic
A Navy Seaking helicopter flies past the Coast Guard icebreaker Pierre Radisson is seen at sea in Frobisher Bay during Operation Nanook Wednesday Aug 19, 2009. (Adrian Wyld/TCPI/The Canadian Press)...
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Finland and Russia discuss cooperation between Arctic and Barents structures
Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto arrives at a European Union foreign ministers emergency meeting to discuss ways to try to save the Iran nuclear deal, in Brussels, Belgium, January 10, 2020....
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Blog – A Chinese sailboat is circumnavigating the Arctic
Chinese artist-sailor Zhai Mo has just set sail from Shanghai to embark on a four-month journey around the Arctic Ocean. (Mia Bennett) Chinese artist-sailor Zhai Mo (翟墨) has just set sail from Shanghai...
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NORAD alerts public of routine training operation in Arctic as Russia...
NORAD announced there will be training operation in the Arctic that will lead to increased military personnel in Whitehorse and Yellowknife from March 14-17. (NORAD/ Twitter) As tensions rise between...
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Canada looks to reinforce Arctic sovereignty through diplomacy, military,...
Clearance Divers from Fleet Diving Unit Pacific and port inspection divers from the Royal Canadian Navy conduct mine countermeasure missions on the ocean floor in the area of Juneau, Alaska, during...
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Russian invasion of Ukraine puts ‘more attention onto the needs of the Arctic’
Larry Audlaluk in a photo from 2019. The elder and historian was moved forcibly to Grise Fiord, Nunavut, in 1953 at age two in the name of Arctic sovereignty and says Canada should do more to exert its...
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Blog: ‘Nor night nor day no rest’ – Arctic diplomacy divided (and united)
The main stage at the May 2022 Arctic Frontiers Conference, Tromsø (Photo by Marc Lanteigne) As the conflict in Ukraine continues, its political, economic and strategic effects have flowed outwards to...
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Feds extend restrictions on Arctic offshore drilling
In this July 16, 2017, file photo, ice is broken up by the passing of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it plies the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska. Federal restrictions on Arctic offshore...
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