Arviat, a small Nunavut community located along the western shore of Hudson Bay, will be the home of the first Inuit-led university in Canada's Arctic. It is the southernmost community on Nunavut's mainland and is home to the territory's third-largest youth population. The doors are expected to open by 2030, serving 100 students.

American unipolarism is drawing to a close, partly because Washington is less willing to enforce it, and the idea of a 'rules-based order' has increasingly been acknowledged as an illusion—even described by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as a 'useful fiction' in a widely noted speech at the latest World Economic Forum. In this shifting global landscape, the Arctic region is taking on increased importance, driven in part by the impacts of climate change. Therefore, a new strategy is necessary to address and catch up with these evolving realities...

'The proposed regulation is designed to make doing business in this country even more unattractive for foreign parties.'

Yesterday in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Rutte announced the launch of the Arctic Sentry mission, which will unite all Alliance forces and resources to counter Russia and China in this region. As before, NATO demonstrates its lack of logic, viewing Russia's legitimate actions to strengthen military security on its national territory as a threat but not considering the inclusion of Sweden and Finland, on whose territory approximately 32 military bases will be rebuilt to station third states' military forces, including in close proximity to Russia's borders, a threat to Russia.

Last week, Canada and France simultaneously opened consulates in Greenland, a symbolic gesture and counter-action in the unfolding Arctic drama in which one protagonist attempts to hijack an island geographically belonging to the American continent, while a small European state, having inflicted much pain on its inhabitants through years of harsh colonial rule, attempts to maintain its modus vivendi with the support of timid allies.

For more than a century, the icebreaker Krassin has powered through polar ice and pivotal moments in world history. Commissioned during World War I, it battled through the Russian Civil War, steered convoys in World War II, and took on scientific and military missions during the Cold War. The Krassin rescued explorers, opened Arctic trade routes, and helped shape the Soviet North—earning its place as a living legend...

In the face of the US challenge, Denmark is implementing emergency, costly measures to improve the standard of living and basic social indicators of Greenland's indigenous population. This could have been done much earlier, raising doubts about the sincerity of these efforts.

The Northern Observer is beginning to publish materials on the topic of prospective joint nuclear deterrence by some EU countries. The article below assesses Sweden's experience working on nuclear weapons and their delivery systems before it signed the NPT in 1968.