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On Alert: Canada's North Pole Command Centre (711 words) |
 | Built with pre-fabricated units in the 1950s, on the edge of Ellesmere Island, the Alert base could pass for a space station - except it is a dot on the vast Arctic ice desert, 817 kilometres (519 miles) from the North Pole and accessible only by air. |
| Unlike US military bases in Alaska and Greenland, Canada's northernmost listening station is not a heavily armed outpost designed for the physical defence of the nation. |
| Canada has always claimed sovereignty over the waters of the archipelago, a claim never recognized by several other nations, including its powerful neighbour, the United States. |
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Canadian Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4721 words) |
| Canada's air force is deployed at 13 bases across Canada under the overall direction of 1 Canadian Air Division and constitutes the Canadian NORAD Region. |
| Canada Command is an operational element created January 31, 2006, to improve response time to domestic terrorism and natural disasters. |
| Canada Command is analogous to and works closely with the United States Northern Command as well as the United States Department of Homeland Security. |
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