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No polar bears within few decades, Russian expert predicts
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – While Arctic sea ice reached a record low this summer, it is not widely known that almost all the ice that melted or drifted away was on the Russian, not the Canadian and...
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Officials crack alleged narwhal tusk smuggling operation from the Canadian...
Federal environment officials in Canada and the United States have cracked an alleged smuggling operation that saw scores of narwhal tusks from the Canadian Arctic illegally shipped across the New...
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Polar bear statue in U.K. heralds fight with Canadian Inuit over proposed...
A life-sized sculpture of a huge polar bear has been unveiled near the centre of London as part of a bid to rally politicians in Britain and across Europe to back a global trade ban on rugs and other...
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Gordon Robertson: ‘One of the most influential civil servants of the modern era’
OTTAWA — Two of the country’s top public servants sat side by side on a dock overlooking a river where the two had side-by-side cottages. One was senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, Bill...
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Ancient Camel Unearthed on Ellesmere Island
When Natalia Rybczynski unearthed the first few bone fragments on a windswept ridge in Canada’s High Arctic she knew she was onto something big. Rybczynski, a paleobiologist at the Canadian Museum of...
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Canada’s Arctic ice cracks in ‘spectacular’ event
The ice in Canada’s western Arctic ripped open in a massive “fracturing event” this spring that spread like a wave across 1,000 kilometres of the Beaufort Sea. Huge leads of water – some more than 500...
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Radarsat-1 down: Canada’s eye in the sky blinks out
A “technical anomaly” appears to have knocked out Canada’s Radarsat-1 satellite, which has been beaming images of everything from Arctic ice to oil spills down to Earth for almost 18 years. The...
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Yukon Conservative MP accused of peddling ‘bogus’ information on polar bears
A Conservative MP has been peddling what researchers describe as “bogus” information on polar bears and citing U.S. climate skeptics as experts on the iconic creatures. In a letter that shocked...
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Aglukkaq of the Arctic: Can federal minister set a vision for international...
With a huge polar bear skin proudly displayed on one wall of her Parliament Hill office and the baton-sized penis bone of a walrus set on a nearby shelf, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq’s...
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Melting glaciers in Canada’s Arctic stoking sea-level rise
The Laurentide ice sheet once entombed Canada in two kilometres of ice, but all that is left is a blob of ice on Baffin Island now shrinking at a remarkable rate. Scientists say the remnant of the once...
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Inuit artifacts return to Nunavut from Norway
More than a century after leaving Canada, a collection of Inuit tools, weapons and clothing has found its way home. “It will be very satisfying to see the artifacts that were taken from our ancestors...
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Climate study finds more bad news for the planet
WASHINGTON — The year 2012 signalled more bad news for the state of the Earth’s climate as global land and ocean temperatures continued to rise, accelerating the decline of Arctic summer sea ice, the...
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Stephen Harper heads northward again — with stakes higher than ever
OTTAWA – He will be accused of indulging in photo-op theatrics, of fleeing Ottawa’s scandals, or just of taking an expensive working holiday at taxpayers’ expense. Such is the lot of a third-term prime...
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The Arctic
The cold north is facing a bevy of environmental, cultural and economic challenges.
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Stephen Harper’s ‘charm offensive’ is economics: It’ll have to do
OTTAWA — Stephen Harper, it will sadden some to learn, is not an ogre or a troll. Nor are the members of his staff orcs, goblins, hobgoblins or cave wights out of Tolkien. They are all, shockingly,...
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Garneau: Harper’s annual photo-op belies string of broken Arctic promises
By Marc Garneau, Liberal MP Since 2006, the Harper Conservatives have made and repeated dozens of promises about protecting Canada’s Arctic sovereignty. Each summer, the prime minister makes a symbolic...
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Polar bear statue in U.K. heralds fight with Canadian Inuit over proposed...
A life-sized sculpture of a huge polar bear has been unveiled near the centre of London as part of a bid to rally politicians in Britain and across Europe to back a global trade ban on rugs and other...
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Gordon Robertson: ‘One of the most influential civil servants of the modern era’
OTTAWA — Two of the country’s top public servants sat side by side on a dock overlooking a river where the two had side-by-side cottages. One was senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, Bill...
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Ancient Camel Unearthed on Ellesmere Island
When Natalia Rybczynski unearthed the first few bone fragments on a windswept ridge in Canada’s High Arctic she knew she was onto something big. Rybczynski, a paleobiologist at the Canadian Museum of...
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Canada’s Arctic ice cracks in ‘spectacular’ event
The ice in Canada’s western Arctic ripped open in a massive “fracturing event” this spring that spread like a wave across 1,000 kilometres of the Beaufort Sea. Huge leads of water – some more than 500...
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