Guardians of the Environment

In 1996, the Arctic Council limped into existence, barely noticed. Today it thrives as the principal forum in which the eight Arctic states interact and plan the increasingly important future of the Arctic.

In 1944, Canada and the United States agreed to talk about sharing the conservation and management of the massive Columbia River system. Twenty years later, they implemented the Columbia River Treaty.

How the Canadian Rangers came to be the shadow army of the North.

For more than six decades, a volunteer force of mostly Inuit men and women have quietly stood watch over Canada’s North.

If Canadians rarely hear about the International Joint Commission, it may be because this institution has been quiet yet effective in its job of settling potentially explosive cross-border disputes.