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Posted date : Nov 6, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, Love your magazine and all the information. Re the “breast cancer” article from Mike Pigden – Has no one ever heard of “BRACHYTHERAPY ?” for breast cancer. The doctors never tell the women about it. My daughter had breast cancer and by chance, we heard and learned about it. It is a […]

Posted date : Nov 6, 2017

Dear Bird Talk Re: Florida Tax Situation My wife and I have been CSA members for several years and we have been fortunate to spend a couple of months in Arizona each spring for the last 10 years. We do enjoy reading the CSANews. It is interesting to notice the difference in attitude of the […]

Posted date : Nov 6, 2017

Dear Sir, In the winter 2000 issue you had an article under Health & Wellness pertaining to the procedure “percutaneous vertebroplasty” which was administered to your mother for an osteoporosis condition. I would be interested in knowing what the lasting results of this treatment were. Yours Truly, Ivan E. Smith Response: This is the toughest […]

Posted date : Nov 6, 2017

Dear Bird Talk: I have just received via snail mail the winter issue of CSA News. The article on Prostate Specific Antigen Test (PSA) is, in my opinion, probably the most important article I have seen in the News. Hopefully it will save many lives because I know that the PSA test was the main […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, In the spring issue of CSANews, Mr. Quigley, in his article “What Does it Really Cost?,” refers to “slimy lawyers.” apparently, to Mr Q., any lawyer who tries to collect money owed to a client is slimy, whereas health insurers who will use every trick in the book to avoid paying claims […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, When reading the article regarding the “death of four Canadian soldiers” included in the “from the desk of the late Don Slinger,” I felt moved to write a comment regarding the Canadian involvement in the Second World War. I was born in the Netherlands, in the Hague. And I lived through the […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk: I read with great interest Ross Quigley’s editorial in your summer 2006 issue of CSANews. Could you possibly relay my comments to him, as well as a few queries I have about his car importing experience? I am also a bit of a car nut as well. Last fall I purchased a […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, We are members of the CSA and have always enjoyed your magazine, from humour to serious information. However, I don’t think I have ever read any item that has been more truthful and to the point than the article written by Don Slinger about the happenings in our society and how we […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Don Slinger, Regarding the gentleman who just received a disability pension through the Royal Canadian Legion. The Legion not only carries out great work for veterans but is very community conscious with monitory contributions to it. Its too bad this veteran had not been a member for so many years. He would have been […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, Thank you for the latest CSA Special Report, which arrived recently. Having been visitors to Florida on a regular basis, each winter since 1991, we have had our mail forwarded by Canada Post for a period of almost six months each time. The service we have received from the Oakville Post Office […]