Exploding drones and clients from “adversarial” countries and their allies won’t be allowed at the Arctic Training Centre, an up-and-coming security and defence facility for validating, testing and trialling military-level technologies in northern conditions that has launched in the Yukon’s capital, according to the centre’s founder.

Founder Arj Grewal told the News by phone that the Arctic Training Centre is currently operating out of a rented space at the foot of Mount Sima in Whitehorse.

“I feel that I'm still very much part of the defence and sovereignty fight for Canada,” he said.

Grewal, who is a Canadian military veteran, recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Yukon government as part of standing up the centre. The non-binding deal doesn’t have any money on the

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