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‘Fake’ distress call from North cost Canadian Armed Forces $88K in search costs

22 January 2019 Hilary Bird, CBC News 0 Comments Canadian Armed Forces, military, Northwest Territories, NWT, search and rescue

A week and a half-long search for a missing snowmobiler, which turned out to be based on a false call,

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Nearly 2,000 Canadian troops take part in NATO’s largest exercise since Cold War

25 October 201826 October 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Canadian Armed Forces, NATO, Norway, Trident Juncture

Nearly 2,000 Canadian troops have been deployed to Northern Europe as the alliance kicked off Thursday its largest war games

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Canada’s defence minister says military upgrades part of plan to strengthen Arctic sovereignty

20 August 2018 Alex Brockman, CBC News 0 Comments Alert, Arctic Bay, Canadian Arctic, Canadian Armed Forces, defence, Harjit Sajjan, Infrastructure, military, Nanisivik, Nunavut, security

Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s Northern tour didn’t come with any new spending announcements. Instead he talked up the importance

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Canadian military trains to respond to Arctic earthquake

22 August 201619 March 2018 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Canadian Armed Forces, earthquake, Nunavut, Operation Nanook, Yukon

The Canadian military and other branches of government are training to respond to an earthquake in a remote Arctic community

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