Canada plans ships to assert Arctic sovereignty
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Canada will buy at least six patrol ships to assert its sovereignty claim in the Arctic, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday backed away from an election pledge for navy icebreakers that would ply the waters of the Northwest Passage all year round.
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Canada and China will aim to boost trade in energy and minerals when Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin begins an official visit on Thursday, with human rights also on his agenda.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada and the European Union want to move beyond their long-running argument about fishing off the Grand Banks to attack overfishing on a global basis.
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Denmark is joining Russia and Canada to see if it can lay a claim to the North Pole &#151; and whatever natural riches may lie beneath it.
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The terms of a proposal to develop and ship North Slope gas have Alaskans up in arms.
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The Arctic is undergoing rapid and possibly irreversible change, according to a new report prepared for the eight nations which rim the region.
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The Chief of Canada&#39;s maritime defence staff is defending the submarines Canada obtained from the British navy, saying the vessels would never be sent out without being &quot;prepared, checked and tested.
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Australia will send planes and a ship to conduct surveillance of Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica in a bid to build a potential legal case against whaling for scientific research, the government said Wednesday.
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The Arctic Barents Sea is under threat from overfishing, oil and gas exploration and Soviet-era radioactive waste, the U.N. Environment Program said on Tuesday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - An unmanned surveillance aircraft that could one day be used to patrol Canada's sprawling coastline will start zooming through the skies over the Atlantic and the Arctic within days.
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Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better
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London - Efforts will be made to begin towing a stricken Canadian submarine drifting in the Atlantic off the northern Irish coast to Scotland on Friday, Canadian and British naval officers said.
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Indigenous to the region, the Inuit want a 'meaningful voice' in the territory dispute.
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Two polar explorers are to embark on a 4,300km trek across the Arctic to collect data and highlight climate change.
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Twelve Russian strategic bombers will  take part in an Arctic exercise on Monday and Tuesday including  tactical launches of cruise missiles, an air force spokesman  said.
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Canada will host international talks in May on what needs to be done to protect the world's dwindling fish stocks from rampant overfishing, officials said on Thursday.
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With due pomp and ceremony the Royal Navy handed over the submarine HMS Upholder to the Canadians at the weekend. The vessel was renamed HMCS Chicoutimi - after the city on the edge of Quebec&#39;s vast northern wilds - and the maple leaf flag was hoisted.