Canada Intensifies New Cold War With Russia In Arctic

Canada and Russia are waging a "Cold War lite" two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, experts say, following news that a Canadian naval officer was slapped with espionage charges and accused of selling top-secret information to a foreign entity.

Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz, director of the Institute of European and Russian Studies at Carleton University, said the Harper government's thinking toward Russia is outmoded.

"The Canadian government is stuck in a Cold-War mentality," he said. "We now have a Cold War lite."

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