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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is planning a northern tour this summer as part of a broad Arctic sovereignty campaign that will likely intensify a territorial dispute with the U.S. and other countries.
Officials at National Defence headquarters suggest a high-level trip is also in the works to Hans Island -- the football-field-sized rock between Ellesmere Island and Greenland which Denmark claims as its own.
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... the binding customary principles of territorial sovereign equality and non-intervention, by the co... the power of a state's courts to resolve disputes or interpret the law through decisions that carry ...
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... settlement of the Beaufort Sea territorial dispute. (21) . Politically, Arctic states cannot ...
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It would not be the first time a federal Conservative government has left this province to twist in the wind in the hope of gaining political points in Quebec. If true, however, it would be the first time that it has been done at a threat to the territorial integrity of the nation. At a time when international dispute of Canada's claim to the Arctic is growing, Mr. [STEPHEN Harper] needs to convince the country that, wherever Canada's northern military presence is concentrated, it is being done in the country's best interests, not the Conservative party's.
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... appoints and pays all provincial and territorial superior court judges). The court rules and the ad...
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The five nations that border the Arctic Ocean gathered together this week for a meeting in Ilulissat, Greenland at the invitation of the Danish government. Canada, Denmark, Russia, Norway and the United States all have conflicting claims over control of the Arctic's territories and resources. Canada, for example, has a continuing quarrel with Denmark about sovereignty over Hans Island; a dispute with the U.S. over the territorial status of the Northwest Passage which has grown serious enough for the federal government to increase the Canadian military presence in the Arctic; and a disagreement with Russia over the control of the continental shelf that extends along the seabed under the North Pole.
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... tactics Russia employs to convey its territorial claims, notably the 2008 decision to resume Russia... Island, which is a region long disputed between the two countries. In addition, the Russia...
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...Nor is there a dispute for which there exists one specific tailor-made an... an Antarctic treaty that "froze" all territorial claims in the Antarctic. While member countries en...
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