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The Arctic Response Company Group (ARCG) is a group of company-sized units of the Canadian Forces and the Canadian Army. In 2007, the Canadian Army was tasked to stand-up and train four Arctic Response Company Groups, in cooperation with the Canada First Defence Strategy .
Canada planned to submit their claim to a portion of the Arctic continental shelf in 2018. [21] In response to the Russian Arktika 2007 expedition, Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, Peter MacKay, said "[t]his is posturing. This is the true North, strong and free, and they're fooling themselves if they think dropping a flag on the ocean floor ...
In 1973 the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (ITC) began research on Inuit land use and occupancy in the Arctic. Three years later in 1976, ITC proposed creating a Nunavut Territory and the federal Electoral Boundaries Commission recommended dividing the Northwest Territories into two electoral districts: the Western Arctic (now the Northwest Territories) and Nunatsiaq (now Nunavut).
Canada's Arctic covers more than 4.4 million square km and is almost deserted, save for a few communities and ports. Canada to boost Arctic cooperation with US, cites Russia threat Skip to main ...
Canada and the United States have one land dispute over Machias Seal Island (off the coast of Maine), and four other maritime disputes in the Arctic and Pacific. The two countries share the longest international border in the world and have a long history of disputes about the border's demarcation (see Canada–United States border). [1]
Travelling with the Swedish icebreaker Oden, Louis S. St-Laurent ' s mission to the Arctic was the last of three performed in order to define Canada's claim to the Arctic continental shelf. While mapping during transit to the north, the scientists aboard the ship discovered a chain of 25–30 undersea volcanoes off the coast of Greenland .
Canada has slated $109 million, to be spent before 2014, for research to substantiate extended continental shelf claims in the Arctic region. [29] Canada's Arctic policy priorities are: [30] Exercise Canadian sovereignty, Promote economic and social development, Protect the arctic environment, and; Improve and devolve governance.
Even as the Canadian storm that triggered intense lake-effect snow and heavy snow squalls and brought the first flakes of the season to much of the Interstate 95 Northeast is moving away, shifting ...