Viking exploration of Hudson Bay will continue in 2013 when descendants of the first Viking voyagers to reach North America 1,000 years ago sail into the Arctic from Churchill, Manitoba. Read the full story

The World Trade Organisation has been reassured by Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus that they will impose a ban on the import and export of seal skins from Greenland and Canada. Read the full story

Iceland’s foreign minister this morning described Canadian fears that Huang Nubo’s hoped-for land purchase in Iceland is part of a wider Chinese plan to take the country over, as ‘ridiculous’. Read the full story

New Harbors New Hopes is a novel by Celia Lund and the follow-on to the enjoyable Square Sails and Dragons Read the full story

Last year, 14 women hockey players grabbed the chance to form a ‘Canadian team’ for an annual October tournament in Iceland. This year, the number has swelled to 57 women and many are bringing their partners and friends so that the Canadian contingent will be the largest group at The Iceland International Ice Hockey Cup Tournament, to be held at Egilsholl Arena in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik from 5th October to the 10th. Read the full story

Two Canada-based wedding photographers recently visited Iceland to photograph the wedding of an American couple at one of the country’s best-known country hotels. The photographers enjoyed their trip so much that they wanted to share their experience with IceNews readers. Read the full story

A slab of ice the size of Bermuda, which broke off a Greenland glacier in August last year, is making headway towards Canada. Read the full story

Representatives of Canada’s Irving Oil are in Iceland, reportedly hoping to buy one of the country’s oil companies. Read the full story

A group of Norwegian grandparents has made a formal apology in a Canadian newspaper, as the Norwegian state-owned oil company Statoil prepares to go on trial for misusing water sources in the controversial Alberta oil sands project. Read the full story

Three fighter jets landed at Iceland’s Keflavik airport and NATO military base yesterday evening and three more are expected later today. The air cover for Iceland had to be swiftly re-arranged because the Canadian Forces Air Command decided to send the team originally earmarked for Iceland on a mission to Libya. Read the full story