Canada and Sweden sign Arctic cooperation deal

Canada and Sweden have signed a new five-year science cooperation arrangement aimed at establishing a framework for cooperation between the two countries for collaborative science and innovation activities in the Arctic, specifically the Arctic Ocean. Activities include marine surveying, exchange of scientific data and promotion of research results. Future activities to be discussed include data gathering in support of Canada's extended continental shelf submission for the Arctic Ocean. The agreement was signed between Natural Resources Canada and the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and is further to a 2010 MOU on S&T cooperation between the two countries....