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Posted date : Dec 13, 2019

CSANews Issue 113 – Winter 2019 Edition – CSA TAKES ONTARIO TO COURT! – Fighting to repeal the elimination of out-of-country medical payments

Posted date : Sep 26, 2019

CSANews Issue 112 – Fall 2019 Edition – The official Magazine of Canadian Snowbirds Association.

Posted date : Aug 9, 2019

There are two issues raised in the Bird Talk of the spring issue on page 8, where I am questioning your response: (1) There is no withholding tax on a U.S. sale of less than $250,000. (2) In Canada, we are required to report any real estate transaction of more than $100,000 at purchase.

Posted date : Aug 9, 2019

CSANews Issue 111 – Summer 2019 Edition – In this issue : Portugal Revisited – The Best Places to Travel in Summer – Retirement Blind Spots – DNA Tests – Secrets Revealed

Posted date : May 30, 2019

My job jar is full and it is definitely my fault. After a wonderful winter break without red tide, hurricanes or fires to deal with, and with a few games of golf, beach days and exploring under our belts, it is time to pay for my past sins of procrastination.   Before leaving Canada in […]

Posted date : May 10, 2019

  Just another day…another dollar. Well, not quite – actually, it was $30.8 billion dollars. That’s with a “B.” That was the total sales in ONE DAY for the Chinese special day called “Single’s Day.” Some bright young (or old) person came up with the idea as a counterpoint to Valentine’s Day. Not everyone has […]

Posted date : May 10, 2019

Sometimes I think that we snowbirds are the only sane people left on earth. We have a wonderful lifestyle and are relatively free of “interventions” in our affairs and travels.   Looking out the window, we see insane political wars, both in the United States and Canada, and everywhere else for that matter. And dozens […]

Posted date : May 10, 2019

Ah…the lazy days of summer! Well, except for writing CSANews, and weddings, and family picnics, and gardening, and planning our Early Bird travel insurance. But we met our deadlines and all is well.   The dollar exchange rate is behaving badly right now, but we do expect that to normalize over the next few months […]

Posted date : May 10, 2019

On The Road Again It is late April and it is high time to get our taxes filed. We are driving home (in a friend’s van) for the first time in 10-plus years. The route has been carefully calculated, but my guess is that we will probably stray from the dotted line to explore. Not […]

Posted date : May 10, 2019

What a great year it has been! We have all, hopefully, survived the vicious hurricanes, fires, landslides, upheavals and riots that plagued North America this year and we are looking forward to what 2018 can bring to us as it unfolds.   This past year was, of course, the 25th anniversary of the founding of […]