Canada’s Cannon: Foreign Minister looks north
Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon, perhaps the most-mentioned person on this blog, is heading north to his country’s Arctic. He…
Exclusive meeting of Arctic coastal states draws negative reactions
On March 29, Canada hosted a closed-door ministerial meeting in Chelsea, Quebec attended by the five Arctic littoral states. Denmark,…
Will Iceland join the EU and become its Arctic outpost?
After decades of holding out from EU membership, Iceland finally decided to apply to the union last year. The global financial crisis severely wrecked tiny Iceland’s economy, and all three…Continue Reading →