Canada’s Arctic ‘a serious border we must master and manage,’ says leading security expert, as accelerating climate change dramatically alters the North

Canada is facing a 'once-in-a-century opportunity to finally complete nation-building in the country by putting our efforts for innovation and investment into the North,' according to Arctic expert Jessica Shadian.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in 2019 in Arctic Bay, Nunavut. According to a recent Arctic report card spearheaded by a number of researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Colorado Boulder, 'the transformation of the Arctic to a warmer, less frozen, and biologically changed region is well underway.'Photograph courtesy of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Twitter

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

December 31, 2020

As accelerating climate change continues to radically alter this country's vast, disparately populated, and resource-rich Arctic landscape, Canadians, politicians and policy-makers should no longer view the region as a "distant tundra," according to security expert Irvin Studin, who argues that Can...

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