A few months ago, I read a really informative, fascinating article about Canada’s waning control over the Arctic. It was in Walrus Magazine, who, despite it being from December, 2004, haven’t seen fit to put it online. Strangely, I did find what appears to be an audio recording of the article (MP3).
Regardless, it was with this article in mind that I watched Canadian Minister of Defence talk about Hans Island, a barren knoll in the high Arctic. It’s barely 1 square kilometre, but is the site of contention between Canada and Denmark, both of whom claim it:
Mr. Graham took a helicopter onto the island last Wednesday, a week or so after members of Canada’s military planted a Canadian flag there and erected an Inuit-style stone marker known as an inukshuk. Danish officials have also in the past landed on the island, erecting their own stone cairns.
Bring it on, you you false Danish dogs. Hmmm…do you think we could take ’em?
DarrenBarefoot.com 
Not a chance, Carolyn Parrish points out that we’ve been “peacekeepers” for the last hundred years.
I say we take one of our best runners and challenge one of their best runners and see who can circle the island fastest. He who wins, gains glory and the island for his/her country.
No violence. No war. Just plenty of gloating.
Paper, Rock, Scissors.
How can you do this?
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