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CF in the Arctic

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21 Oct 07

Northern Leaders Like Arctic Highlights in Speech from the Throne (SFT) - More - SFT: "Strengthening Canada’s Sovereignty and Place in the World"

 

Sovereignty Starts with Surveillance

 

 

Obscure CF Team Gets More Attention as CAN Focus Aimed North - Acoustic Data Analysis Centre Pacific (ADAC (P)) - Centre's Heraldic Shield

 

RUS Ship Offloads in Churchill Following Trans-Polar Trip - More

 

CAN Company Trying to Get Goods in by Parachute, One Way, or Another

 

US Coast Guard Tasks Units for Arctic

FRA Airship to Measure Arctic Ice - More - RUS Part of the Action, Too - Another Team Trying it On Foot - News Release (.pdf)

 

7 Oct 07

More on Stepping Up Patrols

CAN May Have to Give Up Arctic Rights Through UN Process?

Ships to shun Northwest Passage

 

5 Oct 07

 

CAN Infrastructure/Research Announcement:  News Release - Backgrounder - ABC News (AUS) - Toronto Star - Winnipeg Free Press - Canadian Press - AFP - Globe & Mail

 

30 Sept 07

 

Ottawa to put Northwest Passage under surveillance - More - more

 

NDP Proposed Approach:  Dealing with environment, industrial buildup, not militarizing

 

US Coast Guard Pushing for Mo' Arctic Icebreakers - Sept 2006 USA Study Saying the Same Thing - Report (19.8MB .pdf) - Executive Summary (2.3MB .pdf) - Summary for Congress

 

23 Sept 07

Naval group urges sub refit for Arctic patrol

 

Navy environmental rules relaxed for Arctic operations because of global warming - Inuit oppose navy rule changes

 

Space group touts Arctic satellites - More

 

CAN scientists starting to do losta snooping underwater now

DNK, Greenland invite CAN to talks over North Pole claims

 

Russia says tests back claim to Arctic ridge

Opinion:  The (not so big) melt

 

16 Sept 07

Proposed CF Arctic Patrol Ships Won't Have Sonar?!?

 

CAN Relying on Data from Others to Keep Track of Arctic?

 

Latest on Thaw of Northwest Passage - European Space Agency:  The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago...." - Open NW Passage=CAN Forced to Secure

 

Opinion:  Protect North by Calling It "Protected"? - Is the Harper government lying about wanting to protect the Arctic for Canadians? - Op-Ed:  ''How much is sovereignty worth? Is that a question you could even imagine another French expert on sovereignty, Charles de Gaulle, asking? (Former Defence Minister Perrin) Beatty sums up Canada's choice by quoting former Canadian vice-admiral Charles Thomas: "You can have as much sovereignty as you're willing to pay for." ''

 

19 Aug 07

CAN PM to Push Arctic Claim in Meeting with USA Pres

 

18 Aug 07

Worries About CF Arctic Military Junk

 

17 Aug 07

OP Nanook 07 Winds Up

 

 

16 Aug 07

Calls for Treaties, not Scientific & Militry Pushes

Analysis:  "Drawing Lines in the Arctic Ice"

 

 

14 Aug 07

DNK Minister Scoffs @ RUS, CAN Claims to Pole - More - more

 

13 Aug 07

CBC Says CAN Northerners Split on Military Presence - More

Opinion:  The Great Arctic Scramble

Danish North Pole expedition with nuclear-fuelled Russian icebreaker

RUS Claims=More Pushing to Come?

 

10 Aug 07

 

"Prime Minister announces expansion of Canadian Forces facilities and operations in the Arctic":  News Release - Backgrounder

 

 

News Search "Nanisivik" 5-12 Aug 07:   français - English (both .pdf) - Associated Press (USA) - More - BBC - Times Online (UK) - Reuters (UK) - Bloomberg (USA)

 

 

Wikipedia:  Nanisivik - Resolute Bay

 

 

Maps:  Resolute - Nanisivik

 

 

Counterpoint:  Some Criticism Almost Immediately - NDP Says CAN Not Doing Enough to Protect Arctic Sovereignty - NDP Letter to PM - Liberal Statement:  "Conservative Photo-Op No Substitute for Action on Arctic Sovereignty"

 

 

All Parties Laying their Claims - BBC Video

RUS Start Arctic Ex, Too - RUS Media Coverage - CAN Rejects RUS Claims to Arctic - Causes CAN to Take Notice? - Wikipedia:  Lomsonov Ridge

DNK Races for the Icy North, Too - Is North Pole Danish? - More - more - more - Wikipedia:  Hans Island

UN Needs to Sort Things Out? - More - UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf - Purpose of the Commission

 

 

Opinion/Analysis

Council on Foreign Relations (USA):  An Ice-Cold War

Keeping Things Cool on Hans Island

"The real message of the titanium-cased Russian flag is that it is time the countries of the Arctic Ocean began to negotiate in earnest."

White Paper on the North Needed

"It makes no sense to claim the region as our own and then through neglect demonstrate that we think it is little more than a frozen wasteland."

Exerting Hard Power

New Coast Guard Ships Would Be Better

 

 

7 Aug 07

CF Begins Eastern Arctic Exercise OP Nanook 07:  News Release - Backgrounder - CF Photos of Ex

News search "Nanook" 5-12 Aug 07 (.pdf) -   CAN Planted Flag Under Pole in 1974

CAN Survey Team Worries About Ice Hampering Data Collection

 

 

A Bit of Back Story

 

 

Jan 06

Remember PM's Response to USA Comments on NW Passage? (.pdf)

 

 

22 Dec 05

Harper Stands Up for Arctic Sovereignty - Letter to (Then) Def Min

 

 

19 Dec 05

Tories Accuse Liberals of Failing to Defend CAN Sovereignty