![]() ![]() ''Canadian scientists are starting to resent what appears to be an American takeover of the Far North,'' Ed Struzik, a veteran reporter on the Arctic, warned last summer in The Edmonton Journal. And even though Alert serves as a base for Canadian research into greenhouse gases and Arctic bird migrations, financing of science by the Canadian government is lagging in the rest of the Arctic, helping Americans to dominate northern scientific research at the top of the world. On maps, Canada's northernmost outpost is sandwiched between the Lincoln Sea and the United States Range, named by an American Navy mission in 1871. ![]() As Canadian soldiers hoist duffel bags from troop transports at a gravel airstrip here, a large red maple leaf signboard greets the new arrivals with the words, in English and French, ''Proudly Canadian.''īut even this military post in the Canadian Arctic, 2,700 miles north of the American border, cannot escape the southern neighbor's shadow.
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