Levon Sevunts

Ottawa’s efforts to map the Central Arctic Ocean in an attempt to present a scientific case for Canada’s claim to the North Pole are a monumental waste of taxpayers’ money, says one of the country’s leading experts on international law and the Arctic.

As Canada prepares to host the next round of discussions on preventing unregulated fishing in the central Arctic Ocean, experts are urging circumpolar nations and major fishing nations to make sure that “fisheries don’t come before science.”

Members of Canada’s House of Commons held an emergency debate Tuesday to discuss the suicide crisis in a remote indigenous community in northern Ontario as well as other aboriginal communities across the country.

When it comes to the Arctic, the Canadian federal budget tabled by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on March 22 lacks innovation and borrows heavily from the Conservative playbook, which the Liberals spent years criticizing, says an expert on Arctic issues.

The poster boy for climate change in the Arctic is the ferocious but wildly photogenic polar bear. But if Chris Buddle had his say, beetles and other critters we rarely pay attention to would be up there with polar bears and narwhal whales.

Canada’s western province of Manitoba wants the federal government to preserve vital habitat for the world’s largest population of beluga whales along the western coast of Hudson Bay, according to a report released Friday.

Canada’s relations with Russia have been in a deep freeze over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its support for pro-Russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine. But a rarely used Arctic shipping route might offer a path for a thaw between Ottawa and Moscow, says an American security and foreign policy expert.

Next time you take a photo that you don’t like at first, don’t erase it, give it another chance. Just ask Michael Davies.

The Gahcho Kué diamond mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories is more than 80 percent complete and on track to begin production in 2016, Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. announced last week.

Canada’s smallest caribou finally got some good news last week. After seeing its population decline by almost 80 percent, the Peary Caribou herds in the High Canadian Arctic have seen some modest rebound in last the few years.

An environmental group has partnered with Inuit artists to produce a short film it hopes will draw attention to the long-delayed promise of creating a marine conservation area in one of the most biologically rich and sensitive areas of the Canadian Arctic.

A new agreement expands joint safety and rescue programs, building on a 2011 agreement established through the Arctic Council.

At least one Arctic policy expert thinks Canada's chairmanship hinges on the ability to say "yes" to China, but "no" to the European Union.

The minister responsible for Canada's participation in the Arctic Council, Leona Aglukkaq, laid out three themes for the country's upcoming two-year chairmanship of the 8-member international body.

Nothing cute or cuddly about this hungry mama polar bear: she's out for lunch and she’ll be damned if a Plexiglas cage is going to prevent her from getting to the juicy human inside to feed herself and her hungry cubs.