A polar bear stands on a ice flow in Baffin Bay above the arctic circle as seen from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent on July 10, 2008. Canada's Senate says it's time the federal government stopped ignoring the Arctic. In a new report, the Senate has issued what it says is a wake-up call for Ottawa to deal with problems that have been festering in the North for decades. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward