New naval ships advance Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic

But critics point out that the ships have some serious limitations.

By Beth Brown, Nunatsiaq News October 16, 2018
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There’s a small glass porthole in the captain’s cabin of HMCS Charlottetown. Besides a handful of windshields, the pie-sized lookout is the only true window on the Canadian warship. Windows would mean a weakness for the double-hulled, steel frigate.

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