In the mess hall of a Canadian military base a few hundred kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, Brigadier-General Daniel Riviere pointed to a map highlighting the region that is becoming a national ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.

Canada’s spy agency warns that colliding global developments make the Arctic an « attractive, strategic and vulnerable destination » for foreign adversaries seeking to establish a presence in Canada.

The hubs are the cornerstone of the federal government's Arctic security strategy, which committed $2.67 billion over 20 years to building them.

At the Joint Task Force North’s headquarters in Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories, huge hangars house planes capable of landing on frozen lakes. There is equipment designed to ...