Wednesday-Night

We are delighted that Anne Lagacé Dowson, the NDP candidate in our by-election will be joining us this Wednesday. As all of you who have not been hibernating (what would be the summer verson of hibernating?) in the woods, absent all forms of print and telecommunications news, the race in Westmount-Ville-Marie is […]

Background on UN Convention of Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)
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Photograph: Louise Murray/Science Photo Library
August 17
A Push to Increase [U.S.] Icebreakers in the Arctic
A growing array of military leaders, Arctic experts and lawmakers say the United States is losing its ability to patrol and […]

17 August
Russia’s Arctic ambitions challenged
With rich oil and gas reserves at stake as the Arctic ice thins, US and Canadian ships are teaming up to conduct a seismic survey of the Beaufort seabed north of the Yukon-Alaska border
16 August 2008
Russia leads scramble for Arctic
(The Telegraph) With the polar icecaps melting, and oil prices at […]

David Jones: Canada’s claim to the Northwest Passage
More on the Arctic 
16 August 2008
(RCI)  OTTAWA: EXPEDITION SET TO FIND DOOMED 19TH CENTURY SHIPS
The Canadian government has organized an expedition to find two sailing ships lost in the mid-19th century in the Arctic while trying to find the Northwest Passage. Sir John Franklin led the HMS […]

August 15, 2008
David Jones . Don’t kid yourselves, Canada
Citizen Special
Sometimes one wonders why a politician marches into a swamp clearly marked, “Here lie alligators.” Is it hubris — the conviction that water walking is not confined to Biblical characters? Is it an effort to float a lead balloon by someone confused as to whether lead […]

Enlarged map and notes
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(BBC) British scientists say they have drawn up the first detailed map to show areas in the Arctic that could become embroiled in future border disputes.
A team from Durham University compiled the outline of potential hotspots by basing the design on historical and ongoing arguments over ownership.
Russian […]

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June 17
Feds under fire over Kyoto Protocol in court and at UN
(National Post) OTTAWA — The Harper government is fighting off challenges in court and at the United Nations for allegedly not meeting its obligations under the […]

June 5
The Race for Survival
(Newsweek June 9) Enlisting endangered species in the fight against global warming is either a brilliant tactical maneuver—or an arrogant abuse of the law.
… And it certainly isn’t any part of Kempthorne’s plan for the polar bear to save the Earth. That was Siegel’s idea: that the law requires […]

…the first principle of Arctic sovereignty is: Use it or lose it
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Resolute Bay, August, 2007

M. Cpl. Kevin Paul/Canadian Forces
The Canadian flag flies from the back of a snowmobile at sunset during a 1st Canadian Ranger Patrol Group patrol of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, March 29, 2008.

Background: “Polar vision or tunnel vision: […]

An unexpected treat … Chil Heward will be bringing his son Geoffrey, Senior Vice-President and Director of G.F.G. Heward.
Geoff began his investment career over 25 years ago working in London England as an Equity Dealer on the London Stock Exchange for Cazenove and Co, returning to Canada with Merrill Lynch […]