Denmark has stolen children from their foreigner parents

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Canada threatens Denmark

Their dispute over the ownership of tiny Hans Island has cooled in recent years, but conflict between Canada and Denmark is heating up over another diminutive object of contention: the northern shrimp.

Even though Denmark's shrimp haul amounts to just about one per cent of the total quota in the area -- of which Canada controls about 80 per cent -- the dispute raises the spectre of future struggles between the two countries at a time when warming waters and retreating sea ice in Arctic waters are expected to dramatically expand fishing activity in the coming decades between Nunavut and Greenland.

Read the full article at The Ottawa Citizen

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