Northerners Visit Ottawa Hoping for Protection of Western Arctic
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By BOB WEBER  (CP) - Three remote northern communities are anticipating word from the federal government that would help protect great swaths of the Western Arctic - including areas of intense interest to resource companies.
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TORONTO (CP) - Effectively raising a white flag in the place of the banished Maple Leaf, Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams says he's now willing to meet with federal officials to resolve its dramatic dispute over offshore oil revenues.
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Rising temperatures in eastern Canada are making it more dangerous for the native Inuit population in the province of Quebec to travel and hunt by snowmobile, and a new study recommends that they return to using the traditional dogsled.
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(CP) - A Canadian-led international Inuit group is beginning legal procedures to convince a major international organization that global warming violates their human rights.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is visiting Canada to seek continued financial and military aid.
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A Coast Guard reconnaissance team is heading to the far north this week to scope out a final frontier that is opening up to ship traffic in a warming Arctic climate.
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President Bush is on his way to Canada for a two-day trip that will mark his first official visit to America&#39;s northern neighbor.
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The indigenous peoples of the Arctic are told their culture will be threatened by climate warming.
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Arctic indigenous peoples urged the  United States on Friday to join other nations in cutting  greenhouse gas emissions to brake an accelerating thaw of the  polar ice.
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TORONTO -- Canada announced plans yesterday to increase its Arctic military presence in an effort to assert sovereignty over the Northwest Passage -- a potentially oil-rich region the United States says is international territory.
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TORONTO -- The weather won't be the only thing that's cool when President Bush visits neighboring Canada next week.
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Denmark aims to claim the North Pole and hunt for oil in high Arctic regions that may become more accessible because of global warming, the Science Ministry said Monday.
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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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A faster-than-expected thaw of the Arctic is likely to open legendary short-cut routes between the Pacific and the Atlantic but experts say
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KAKTOVIK, Alaska, Aug. 31 -- Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne made his first visit Thursday to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, center of a 25-year battle over whether to tap vast oil reserves under a coastal plain along the Beaufort Sea.
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The Australian Government says it will try to encourage some of its northern neighbours to sign up to the Ottawa convention banning landmines.
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Indigenous to the region, the Inuit want a 'meaningful voice' in the territory dispute.