Time for an end to Arctic games

Published September 1, 2010

On Aug. 24, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper was making his annual pilgrimage to the Arctic, a pair of CF-18 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian bombers approaching the Northwest Territories.

"At their closest point, the Russian aircraft were 30 nautical miles from Canadian soil," reads a statement the prime minister's spokesperson, Dimitri Soudas, sent out the following day. "Thanks...

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