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“With climate change and the opening of the Northwest Passage, we’re seeing increases in all those areas,” said Brig-Gen. David Millar, commander of Joint Task Force North.“Our scenarios are focused on the types of marine disasters that could potentially happen with a sharp increase in naval activity in the North.”

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“When we started planning for the exercise, it was the other government departments that came to us and said ‘These are the types of scenarios we’d like to be able to exercise,’

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“It’s going to be difficult, but when I joined the army I knew there’d be stretches where I’d have to leave my family,”

Capt. Randy Arseneau

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“On our radar . . . we had two vessels that we knew had been taken by pirates,” Cmdr. Chris Dickinson, the warship’s captain, said Tuesday in a telephone interview from the frigate, which is docked in Mombasa, Kenya.

“So the threat is real. It’s almost eerie coming down that coast and seeing a radar contact with a name on it . . . and knowing that those vessels are held by pirates.”