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A plan to plug gaps in the continent’s Arctic defence shield faces roadblocks
Russian paratroopers conduct an Arctic exercise on April 25, 2020. Russia’s military buildup in the region is making the need for a planned upgrade of NORAD’s tech even more critical. (Russian Defence...
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Northern premiers say Canada can’t have Arctic security without infrastructure
Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane listens at a meeting of western premiers, in Whistler, B.C., in June. “I hope no one gets really sick because our capacity is very limited,” she said of...
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Canada pledges to work with U.S. over competing claims to Arctic sea floor
The federal government is pledging to work with its American counterparts after the U.S. claimed parts of the Arctic seafloor that Canada also wants. In this 2017 file photo, ice is broken up by the...
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Yukon’s new Arctic security council to help prepare territory for a changing...
Ken Coates, chair of the Yukon Arctic Security Advisory Council, right, with Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai, announcing the creation of the advisory council on Thursday in Whitehorse. (Julien Gignac/CBC) A...
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Feds announce more money for Arctic defence with few details on infrastructure
Members of Joint Task Force North gathered in Yellowknife on Monday morning to hear an announcement from federal Northern Affairs Minister Daniel Vandal about military spending in the coming years....
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Experts warn about potential risks of foreign investment in Arctic mining
Jimi Onalik is the president of CanNor and was one of the panelists at a discussion about mining and its role in Arctic security. (Matisse Harvey/Radio-Canada) Some representatives of the federal...
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Canada, Germany and Norway discussing a security pact to cover the Arctic
Submarine ‘U 34’ of the 212A-class of the German Navy, right, leads the four-submarine flotilla passing by the submarine memorial at Heikendorf-Moeltenort at the Baltic Sea, northern Germany, on...
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US, Canada to negotiate maritime boundary in Beaufort Sea
The sun rises over the Beaufort Sea as seen from the Caelus Energy LLC Oooguruk Development Project in Harrison Bay, Alaska, U.S., on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)...
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Kremlin, on Trump remarks on Greenland and Canada, says Russia has Arctic...
A polar bear family group, consisting of an adult female and two cubs, crosses glacier ice in Southeast Greenland in this handout photograph taken in September 2016. (NASA OMG/Handout via REUTERS/File...
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Territorial premiers send message in Washington that the Arctic is not for sale
From left to right, Premier of Nunavut P.J. Akeeagok, Premier of the Northwest Territories R.J. Simpson, Premier of Alberta Danielle Smith, Premier of Manitoba Wab Kinew, Premier of Nova Scotia Tim...
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Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. and Nunavut gov’t form working group for Arctic...
Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok in Ottawa on Jan. 15. The premier and Nunavut Tunngavik president Jeremy Tunraluk say they are going to create a made-in-Nunavut strategy for Arctic sovereignty and...
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Adversaries see opportunities to exploit ‘strategically valuable’ Arctic,...
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visit the North Warning System Site in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson...
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