Sunday, July 31, 2005

Skirmishes on the playground

Apparently my country is now posturing with the Danes over a small island between Greenland and Ellesmere Island - why are we doing this? I don't know. But each side is staking its claim...repeatedly. Frankly, I think it's kinda interesting how this disagreement has been going on for three decades now, with each side routinely claiming the 1.3 km island and I'm pretty impressed that the solution has been to agree to disagree.

I'm particularly amused by the Ottawa Citizen cartoon depicting how Canada might stake its claim to the island.

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