{"id":782120,"date":"2026-07-05T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782120\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:40:09","slug":"bigger-turnout-expected-for-mass-2026-due-to-increased-arctic-sovereignty-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782120\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Turnout Expected for MASS 2026 due to Increased Arctic Sovereignty Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/master-mariner-captain-kris-drodge-marine-institute-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Bigger Turnout Expected for MASS 2026 due to Increased Arctic Sovereignty Interest\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Master Mariner Captain Kris Drodge (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>With a more recent\u00a0focus on federal expenditures and Arctic\u00a0sovereignty,\u00a0Kris Drodge \u2013 Head of the School of Maritime Studies \u2013 says this will be a big year for the Maritime and Arctic Security and Safety conference (MASS).<\/p>\n<p>MASS 2026 will\u00a0\u00a0bring together industry leaders, northern representatives, and stakeholders from around the world to discuss advancing Canada\u2019s security and safety\u00a0in the northern and maritime areas.<\/p>\n<p>The annual conference will run from July 13 to July 16 at the St. John\u2019s Convention Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Drodge says there may even be talk about getting a submarine this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sovereignty piece is huge now,\u201d said Drodge, \u201cwith the increased interest from the government and nation it makes this years conference bigger than usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says there may even be talk about a submarine soon.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is currently sold out, but there is a waitlist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Master Mariner Captain Kris Drodge (VOCM News) With a more recent\u00a0focus on federal expenditures and Arctic\u00a0sovereignty,\u00a0Kris Drodge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-782120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}