No more stepping on the Canucks...

Canada and the United States have been disputing the rights of ownership to the Northwest Passage for sometime, especially since global warming has melted enough ice to expose lucrative deposits of oil, minerals, and fish. It looks like Canada will be taking a bit more proactive stance to their claim, though, as they outfit the Arctic region with some of its own military might:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said six to eight patrol ships will guard what he says are Canadian waters. A deep-water port will also be built in a region the U.S. Geological Survey estimates has as much as 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and gas.

I say, they should just sit down at a table and play a good game of Risk to determine who gets it.