icebreakers

Michael Wenger still remembers the patches of blood red and vivid violet that daub the landscape of the Northwest Passage.

As ice melts, navigable routes have opened in ways that were not expected until the middle of this century.

The cost of three second-hand icebreakers that the federal Liberal government is buying from Quebec shipyard Chantier Davie is inching closer to the $1-billion mark as Ottawa keeps quietly adding money to the controversial deal.

An Ontario shipyard has dropped a request for an investigation into whether the federal government tried to rig its plan to add a third yard to its multibillion-dollar shipbuilding strategy in favour of Quebec rival Chantier Davie.

An Ontario shipyard is accusing the federal government of trying to unfairly award Quebec's Chantier Davie shipyard potentially billions of dollars in work without a competition.

The federal government has officially launched a search for a third shipyard to join a massive naval procurement process.

Reduced search-and-rescue coverage, ferry-service disruptions, cancelled resupply runs to Arctic and coastal communities and nearly $2 million in lost navigational buoys.

Recent Russian moves in the Arctic have renewed debate over that country's intentions and Canada's own status at the top of the world.

The Canadian Coast Guard says three "interim" icebreakers that were recently purchased without a competition will be used for the next 15 to 20 years.

Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's legal team has demanded the federal government release dozens of documents that officials have deemed cabinet secrets, but which Norman's lawyers insist are needed to properly defend their client in court.

One of the Canadian Forces' most senior officers has been charged with breach of trust following a two-year criminal investigation into the leaking of classified government information to a Quebec shipyard.