Representatives from the Northern circumpolar world gathered in Iqaluit last week for the first meeting of the Arctic Economic Council (AEC), a new independent body meant to foster economic growth in the North.
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Plans are well underway for the Inuit Circumpolar Council General Assembly, scheduled to be held in Inuvik July 21 to 24, and include Prime Minister Stephen Harper as the assembly’s honourary patron.
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More than 40 indigenous groups from the circumpolar world, including two permanent members of the Arctic Council, signed a declaration last week calling for a moratorium on Arctic oil development without their consent.
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Dennis Bevington, NDP MP for the Western Arctic, returned from a state visit to Russia at the end of September bearing words of concern from his Russian counterparts.
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