North Vancouver, Canada, March 13, 2026 (AFP) - With new ships, Canada aims to be 'icebreaking superpower'

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At a massive shipyard in North Vancouver, Canadian workers grind metal beams for a powerful new icebreaker crucial to cementing the country's presence in the increasingly contested Arctic. Icebreakers are specialized, expensive vessels able to navigate in the frozen far north. And "this is the crown jewel," Eddie Schehr, vice president of production at the Seaspan shipyard, told AFP. For Prime Minister Mark Carney, who heads to Norway on Friday t......

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