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Canada Orders Seven Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships from Irving Shipbuilding
The existing design for AOPS (dating back to 2009). Canada’s Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) have been in the pipeline for five years. Now, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has signed a...
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China is Back in Town! Observations on the CNOOC-NEXEN Takeover Bid
REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic/Files Back in 2005, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) tabled a huge $18.5 billion offer for the American oil company Unocal. Despite the logic of...
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The Global Oil Race: China Seeks a Significant Foothold in the Americas
Photo Credit: AP PHOTO/KIN CHEUNG There is much debate in the United States on the dominance of China in the current global economy. These discussions are quite valid as Latin America weathered much...
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Russian Navy to acquire two new nuclear submarines this year
The Yuri Dolgoruky in Sevmash. Courtesy deagel.com As I mentioned in my previous post, Putin’s administration is busy readying the Northern Sea Route for increased maritime traffic. In order to...
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NWT Premier pushes for oil sands pipeline to Arctic
Canada may have the second largest oil reserves in the world, but the vast majority are locked up in Alberta’s oil sands, far from any ocean. That means that pipelines are needed to transport the oil...
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Winning an Election in the Americas: Apathy and Corruption Compete for the...
Student protests this year in the streets of Montreal over a relatively small tuition hike took the Quebec government by storm. In reality, it is likely more than just tuition that fuelled this year’s...
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Iranian Embassy Closure: New Opening in a Greater Regional Game?
Since the announcement of the decision by Canada to sever ties with Iran and expel Iranian diplomats from the country, many Iranian-Canadians have found themselves immersed in heated debates over the...
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Irreconcilable Differences: Canada and Iran
Source: Google Images Formal diplomatic relations between Iran and Canada were developed in the late 1950s. As with most relationships, they have experienced their share of ups and downs. While the...
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Russia to construct world’s largest nuclear icebreaker
The NS Vaygach, a Russian river-class icebreaker. Russia oversees the world’s largest fleet of nuclear icebreakers, and it will soon add the largest one yet to its tally. Rosatom, which currently...
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Canada’s Inappropriate Iran Policy
Iranian Embassy in Ottawa, Canada by Alireza Ahmadian Editor’s Note: Alireza Ahmadian is an Iranian-Canadian writer living in London. Mr. Ahmadian holds a history BA from the University of British...
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Iron ore and fiber optics in the works for Nunavut
Baffin Island. (c) Baffinland. Nunavut, Canada is home to a wealth of mineral resources, yet it suffers from a dearth of high-speed internet. New developments in both of those areas could bring big...
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The Natural and Technological Sublime in the Arctic
Today, I will explore the linkages between two concepts of the sublime – the natural and the technological – and the Arctic. “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,” Caspar David Friedrich. In the book,...
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Prove China spy allegations or “shut up”
In a radio interview airing Nov. 17 on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Zhang Junsai, China’s ambassador to Canada, told radio host Evan Solomon that Chinese firms are not involved in foreign...
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A New State of Statelessness
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest appearance by Gus Constantinou, a freelance writer at the United Nations (U.N.). A full sixty-five years after the United Nations celebrated a United Nations...
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Bean Counters Battle over Sovereignty
This week the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged China-located affiliates of the big five U.S. accounting firms with breaking securities laws by failing to provide documents from...
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Arctic Frontiers: Day One
Foreign Ministers Bildt (L) and Barth Eide (R). (c) Mia Bennett. I’m currently in Tromsø, Norway where the Arctic Frontiers conference is taking place all week at the local university. Today’s program...
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Arctic Frontiers: A Critical Cartography
“Maps are ideology,” Christopher Connery, a professor of world literature and cultural studies, writes. If that is the case, then the map produced for the 2013 Arctic Frontiers conference is certainly...
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Arctic Frontiers: Mead Treadwell’s Speech
Lt. Gov. Treadwell speaking. (c) Mia Bennett On the first day of the Arctic Frontiers conference, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska Mead Treadwell gave a speech full of metaphors heralding a “new age of...
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Northern and Southern Frontiers: Australia and the Arctic
Australia and the Arctic aren’t often mentioned in the same sentence. One tends to hear more about Australia and Antarctica, since the country has an Antarctic Division and carries out scientific...
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A Candid Discussion with Peter Jones
Dr. Peter Jones is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is also an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover...
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