Friday, June 5, 2026
ADVT 
National

Canada Files North Pole Competing Claim With Russia, Denmark

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 27 May, 2019 07:21 PM
  • Canada Files North Pole Competing Claim With Russia, Denmark

Canada is heading for negotiations over who owns the North Pole.


After years of delay and political arm-twisting, Canada has made a claim to a vast portion of the Arctic seabed that includes the North Pole.


The claim sets up the federal government for talks with Russian and Denmark, which had already filed their own claims.


Canada document was filed last week with a United Nations body that is to determine the scientific validity of each country's version of where the lines on the map should be.


A decision is to be made after negotiations between the three countries.


Canada's submission is late — the previous federal government nixed plans for a claim in 2013 that didn't include the North Pole.

 

MORE National ARTICLES

Man Facing Deportation To Italy More Than Two Decades After Conviction Loses Stay Request

Man Facing Deportation To Italy More Than Two Decades After Conviction Loses Stay Request
MONTREAL — A Quebec man convicted more than 20 years ago for his role in a Mafia-linked drug importation will be deported to his native Italy this week barring a last-minute reprieve from Ottawa.

Man Facing Deportation To Italy More Than Two Decades After Conviction Loses Stay Request

Measles Unlikely To Spread But Everyone Should Be Vaccinated: Vancouver Doctor

Measles Unlikely To Spread But Everyone Should Be Vaccinated: Vancouver Doctor
A medical health officer in Vancouver says measles is not expected to spread beyond a cluster of patients but anyone travelling to other parts of the world

Measles Unlikely To Spread But Everyone Should Be Vaccinated: Vancouver Doctor

Soldier Found Dead On New Brunswick Base Was Veteran Of Afghanistan, Bosnia

Soldier Found Dead On New Brunswick Base Was Veteran Of Afghanistan, Bosnia
OROMOCTO, N.B. — The Canadian Armed Forces has released the name of a soldier and Afghanistan veteran found dead at New Brunswick's Gagetown base on Monday.    

Soldier Found Dead On New Brunswick Base Was Veteran Of Afghanistan, Bosnia

B.C. Moves On Consumer Protections With Payday Loan Law Amendments

B.C. Moves On Consumer Protections With Payday Loan Law Amendments
VICTORIA — British Columbia is amending consumer protection law to offer more safeguards for people forced to turn to high-cost loan services and risk being caught in an endless cycle of debt payments.

B.C. Moves On Consumer Protections With Payday Loan Law Amendments

Liberals' Bump In Child Benefits Fuels Poverty Rate Drop, Statistics Canada Says

OTTAWA — The national statistics office says fewer children are living in poverty and it is connecting the drop to the Liberal government's signature child benefit.

Liberals' Bump In Child Benefits Fuels Poverty Rate Drop, Statistics Canada Says

Former Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Omar Khadr Wants Court To Rule Sentence Expired

EDMONTON — Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is asking an Alberta court to declare his eight-year sentence for war crimes to have expired.

Former Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Omar Khadr Wants Court To Rule Sentence Expired