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Posted date : Nov 13, 2017

Dear Bird Talk: Thank you for your warning of speed traps in Florida. You may want to advise your readers that the province of New Brunswick has embarked on this lucrative source of income. Number eleven highway north of Moncton is posted at 100 kmp, but in certain areas the speed limit drops to 90 […]

Posted date : Nov 13, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, On April 13/99, as we were returning home from Florida, we had a medical emergency while stopped at the CITGO gas station, LOVELACE AUTO SERVICE, Knoxville, Tenn. 37922. We don’t know the exit #, but it was in north Knoxville, near 40 and 75. I asked Mr. Lovelace how to get to […]

Posted date : Nov 13, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, My wife has been undergoing chemo and radiation treatments in Florida. These treatments have consumed most of the six months on our visa. There are now followup scans and consolidation chemo treatments. How do we get an extension to the six-month visa? David Woodruff Ontario Response: Ed.: We have found that the […]

Posted date : Nov 13, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, I wish to warn our fellow travellers about the “speed trap” just before the Canadian border at Gananoque in New York state. The speed sign shows 65 mph then, very soon after, it drops to 40 mph with no warning (i.e. “reduced speed ahead”). I was pulled over last year and given […]

Posted date : Nov 13, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, With the new Canada/U.S. border-crossing procedures, the issue of days spent in the U.S. is becoming more and more troublesome for many of us. It recently occurred to me that if you have used up most of your 182 days’ entitlement and you are still in the U.S., and a medical problem […]

Posted date : Nov 13, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, My wife and I go to Florida each year; I have a question concerning owning a weapon in the United States. Over the years, we have made a lot of good American friends and all of them own guns for their personal protection. (Stand your Ground) They are very surprised that we […]

Posted date : Nov 13, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, Each of the provincial health plans, even the “generous ones,” threaten their citizens with cancellation of their provincial health-care plan should they dare absent themselves from the province for longer than some bureaucratically set period of time. I suggest that such a draconian punishment for temporarily abandoning one’s province of residence for […]

Posted date : Nov 13, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, The Arizona SB 1070-style laws seem to have won the recent election in many states, Florida included. Are you tracking this issue? I would like to see a report such as the one which you have on the provinces’ health care: which states have passed such laws, which are pending, what documents […]

Posted date : Nov 13, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, Thank you for printing Michael Coren’s column in the summer Issue 75 regarding some Canadians’ perception of the United States. He was able to express my thoughts and it is my hope that more Canadians will give what he says some consideration. Joni Steele Ontario Dear Bird Talk, Hmm. Not sure what […]

Posted date : Nov 13, 2017

Dear Bird Talk, We were thinking of visiting Arizona. However, their new “anti-illegal” law is very intimidating. What exactly would count as proof of being there legally for a Canadian? Would we have to force the border person to stamp our passports, legibly? Anna Ontario Response: Ed: I do not believe that the new Arizona […]