Boaters in Eclipse Sound outside of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, with Bylot Island in the background. A new study says an international policy meant to protect and heal a hole in the ozone layer is also delaying the Arctic's first ice-free summer.
Canada will open consulates in Alaska and Greenland and continue its boundary negotiations with the United States over the Beaufort Sea.Canada will open consulates in Alaska and Greenland, appoint an Arctic ambassador and continue its boundary negotiations with the United States over the Beaufort Sea.
Those promises and more are laid out in a new federal document released Friday morning about Canada's Arctic foreign policy.Settlement of Beaufort Sea boundary dispute must involve Inuvialuit, says IRC chairThe new policy provides funding over the next five years for Global Affairs Canada. Aside from an ambassador and new consulates, the policy promises Canada will initiate Arctic security talks with foreign affairs ministers in other northern countries, and support science and research co-ordination in the Arctic.The 37-page policy document also warns of Russian action in the Arctic, including its modernization of its Arctic infrastructure and its military capabilities.
it highlights that the Canadian Forces station in Alert, on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, is closer to the Russian military's air force base at Nagurskoye, Russia, than Iqaluit is to Ottawa or Toronto is to Winnipeg. Emma Tranter is a senior writer with CBC North in Yellowknife. She worked in journalism in Nunavut for five years, where she reported in Iqaluit for CBC, The Canadian Press and Nunatsiaq News. She can be reached at [email protected] gets $300K to work toward an Arctic security institute for the North
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