The 1928 Italia expedition is remembered not only for its courage and technological daring, but for its tragedy—an episode where politics, pride, and the limits of human endurance collided at once. This is the dramatic story of the Italia—a story of visionaries, rivals, and the high cost of chasing glory at the top of the world.

In October 2023, Finland laid down the first of the four-ship Pohjanmaa-class corvette series, which will be completed in 2029, when all four warships will reach full operational capability.

In 2026, the waters of the North Atlantic will welcome a British carrier strike group led by the aircraft carrier Prince of Wales, widely known to naval enthusiasts for its severe technical problems, which meant the £3 billion ship spent more time in dry dock than at sea. The carrier is also known for its technical cannibalism with the sister ship Queen Elizabeth.

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.