US President Donald Trump has reversed his position on annexing Greenland. He announced that he will not use force or impose 10% tariffs on the eight European nations that were most vocal in their opposition to his actions. Instead, Trump is entering into negotiations to acquire Greenland, which he described as merely “a piece of ice.”
Continue reading Trump backs down on Greenland threatsrepublished from the Prime Minister of Canada website
Full text of the speech Prime Minister Mark Carney gave at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, in Davos Switzerland, On January 20, 2026.
Thank you, Larry.
It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you tonight in this pivotal moment that Canada and the world are going through.
Tonight, I’ll talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction, and the beginning of a harsh reality where geopolitics – where the large, main power – is submitted to no limits, no constraints.
Continue reading Mark Carney: ‘Principled and pragmatic, Canada’s path forward’ (Full Text)
Iris Steigemann was an artist before she came to Cortes island in 1980, but for the last five or six years her work has taken on a new focus.
“I’ve been painting icebergs. What fascinates me is the underneath of the iceberg. You usually see a quarter to a third of an iceberg above the water. Under the water, it’s kind of a dream landscape. I like to play around with that,” she explained.
“There is also the environmental aspect of it. The ice cap there is melting way faster than what was expected. The thickest part of the ice cap in Greenland is about three kilometers deep. They’re doing ice cores of this and they can actually see what kind of weather there was, what was happening on earth at those times. Now this is all melting. They break off and a lot of them from Ilulissat Icefjord actually float around to the Canadian side. They drift down the east coast and then they melt.”
Continue reading Coming July 5: Iris Steigemann, Adrift Above The Arctic Circle
By Louis Belcourt, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Iris Steigemann, an artist and painter local to Cortes Island, has been travelling to Greenland over the course of the past decade and has distilled her experiences into a collection of paintings that she will be presenting this weekend.
Continue reading Local artist hosting art show depicting Greenland travels and the realities of climate change
