Hi Guys, Canada is nothing BUT a nation of ex-pats as it is...! I know --- my parents were part of the great wave of immigration from Europe that swept into the country in the years after WW2.
Have you ever heard of the expression "DP"...? Well, that was about as vile a name as the "n" word is to-day to Afro-Americans, only "DP" --- or, "Displaced Person" was the slangy name entrenched Canadians threw at everyone who was new to the country back then. It was NOT pretty. We were made to feel less-than-human by a large sector of the population, and one could practically feel the bias & prejudice in school, on job sites, etc. But enough of that... Hey all you Americans --- as long as you've got a passport, that's about all you'll ever need to come up here for a visit. Whenever we cross the border to visit our son in Maine, all we ever do --- both ways --- is simply show the guard our birth certificates & our passports, & we're home free (but I've also read somewhere that Americans, as a nation, have one of the LOWEST per capita ownership of passports of any country in the world --- maybe that's why a lot of you guys think our currency is the peso, and that we speak French in the province of Toronto...eh?). So get those documents ready, folks --- because if there really IS such a thing as global warming, there'll be hordes of you flocking north of the border not for the snow & back bacon, but for the temperate weather, and dry land...! ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ********************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Chester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:37 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Re: P.S. - you get to run 1000W input on AM up here > > So how does Canada feel about ex-pats? I hear you need to > > have a job lined up, or at least be self-sufficient. Central > > heating, parkas, warm toques (?!) and gloves are great and all > > that but how good is the pizza and hot cocoa?? Inquiring minds > > wanna know. And so do I. And thanks. > > > > 73, Terry Bakowski KC9KEL > > Plus, Canada's Medicare covers people of all ages, not just the elderly. And > regarding the toques, one to keep you warm, and there is less paranoia about > the other variety than in USA. And Canadian ham bands have no subbands. > > But it has become much more difficult to get "landed immigrant" status (more > or less the equivalent of the US Green Card) than it was during the VietNam > era, when all you had to do was make your declaration at the border > crossing. > > And apparently it is now difficult to enter Canada even for a short visit. > My daughter's boyfriend had planned to take a camping trip to Thunder Bay > back during the summer. He drove several hundred miles from Nashville to > the border crossing, and they refused him entry because the computer showed > that he had been busted at age 19 for under-age drinking in Tennessee. What > was really so stupid about that was that it should have been a moot point > since 19 would have been legal drinking age in Canada, and when he tried to > enter the country, he was 24, well past the drinking age. Besides, what > does under-age drinking 5 years ago have to do with being a risk to Canada? > Makes me wonder if it would be worth travelling from distant reaches of the > US, if you could unexpectedly be refused entry because of some hassle you > might have forgotten all about. Most of us probably have something trivial > like that on our past record. > > There is a down side to the ham radio issue. Canada's regulations impose a > 6 kHz bandwidth limitation for AM. > But that is apparently taken about as seriously as the USA's p.e.p. > bullschzit. I have never heard of an AM'er on either side of the border > being cited for exceeding either one. And I hear Canadian AM'ers describe > their rigs in detail, with no mention of any measures taken to suppress the > highs. > > Don, k4kyv > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
