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Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Mr. Quigley (Medipac Travel Insurance), Thank you very much for the US$500 cheque for the door prize at the Winter Information Meeting in Yuma, AZ. I have attended quite a few of these meetings and we always enjoy them. I usually do enter the draw, buy a ticket on the 50/50, etc., but never […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, Please advise all our members of a very dishonest policy the Toronto Star has installed without any notice to their readers. No credit will be permitted to your account when you leave for your annual trip (meaning, do not pay in advance or better still, CANCEL prior to new billing that would […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, I would like to warn CSA members about using ATMs in the USA, based on my personal experience. In early March, I attempted to withdraw US$300.00 from my CIBC Canadian account at a Chase Bank ATM located in a Walgreens Drugs outlet in Mesa, Arizona. Although I received a receipt stating that […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, I have been asked by several senior friends as an original CSA member to write to you of our concern regarding what is happening to our savings in this period of economic downturn, in particular as it applies to our RRIFs and the amounts we must withdraw. Seniors, those of us fortunately […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Hello Bird Talk! One of your members has suggested that many other “snowbirds” would be extremely interested to learn about a pension that is available to most people who worked in the U.K. at some point in their lives. I am attaching a brief info piece for possible reprint in your excellent magazine, CSANews, and […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, We think there should be a charge for non-members at the Extravaganzas. We went to the one in Lakeland. There were so many people we could not enjoy ourselves. One or two dollars would help all the good work you try to do. We know sponsors pay for some of the cost […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk: I’m one of the many snowbirds that own a small one-bedroom condo (600 sq. ft.) in Pinellas County, Treasure Island Florida. In the year 2005 our taxes were increased by a staggering 142 % or $1622.12. Now for the year 2006 the proposed taxes, if adopted, will increase our taxes another 34 […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, Please check the following information and alert our fellow Snowbirds of the following problems. I have been trying to transfer money from my Canadian bank U.S. Dollar account into my account in the Chase Bank in Arizona. They have instituted a new policy whereby it now takes fro 4 to 6 weeks […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, I am writing with respect to the Bird Talk on p. 7 of the latest CSANews Spring 2006, Issue 58, about a cash in dispute with an American bank. At the beginning of the 1980’s I opened my chequing account with a bank in florida, and shortly after mailed my pay cheque […]

Posted date : Nov 4, 2017

Dear Mr. Gerald Brissenden Our best wishes on your appointment as president of CSA. Thank you for dedicating your time and effort to the association that has championed our rights at every opportunity. Congratulations on the publication of the 50th CSANews. The issue is five stars in content and style. Perhaps the hard work and […]