Hans Island is Canada's

Hans Island (Wikipedia)

Crosby lifts Canada over Denmark

Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored twice as a below-strength Canada held on to edge Denmark 5-3 on the opening day of world ice hockey championship on Friday.

Our hockey team, with divine intervention, beat Denmark, so Hans Island must be ours. In spite of what the evil Fjordman blogger says,

Canada occupies Denmark

Don't Canadians know that occupations always fail? Besides, Greenland is really Norwegian territory, as it was a part of the kingdom of Norway in the Middle Ages, with a significant Norse settlement dating from the age when Leiv Eriksson arrived in Canada. It went to Denmark in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, as the negotiators didn't know enough history. Perhaps we should declare a Holy War and get it back? Jihad for Greenland!

And, the Danish government has this to say,

...both countries have visited the island in a tit-for-tat exchange to establish their sovereignty. Canada has planted its red and white maple-leaf flag, which has been readily replaced with the red and white Danish Dannebrog flag. In 1984, Denmark's minister for Greenlandic Affairs, Tom Høyem, even buried a bottle of cognac during his visit to the island along with a note to Canadians welcoming them to the Danish island. (How dare they take our flag down - although it was awfully nice of them to leave us a bottle of cognac.)

Conflicting claims

Denmark says it owns the island because it lies closer to Greenland. Canada, on the other hand, claims that Britain discovered the island, and ownership transferred to Canada with its independence. In addition, Canadian scientists are currently investigating whether the island is connected to Canada's continental shelf.

This is a much more balanced approach to the whole issue: Hands off Hans island: Graham to Denmark