Re: Border Crossings

2006-07-06 Thread Brian Albinson
Gnomonisti For your Canadian sortie make sure you have adequate medical insurance. In Canada, Cuba and North Korea it is a criminal offence for a doctor to charge a citizen for medical services, but in Canada, for non citizens they think of a number, double it and add a nought. Brian

RE: Border Crossings

2006-07-06 Thread Thaddeus Weakley
My hunch - If something like this is of questionable nature, it could be safer and much less likely to be stopped by mail/post shipping than driving or flying it with you.Perhaps you can contact immigration ahead of time and see if they can offer some kind of clearance papers to get the

Border Crossings

2006-07-05 Thread Roger Bailey
I have been asked what you need to cross the border into Canada to attend the NASS Conference in Vancouver. The rumours about more rigorous checks and extensive documentation are overstated. At this time, the system is much like it used to be. Here is a quick summary un-official of what to expect

Re: Border Crossings

2006-07-05 Thread Mark Gingrich
Roger Bailey advised: Don't bring in guns, drugs or explosives. ... You realize, of course, that this precludes us non-Canadian dialists from exhibiting our gnomonically proper noon guns. ;-) Which reminds me, I've always thought it should be standard protocol to honor a contingent of

RE: Border Crossings

2006-07-05 Thread Roger Bailey
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Re: Border Crossings Roger Bailey advised: Don't bring in guns, drugs or explosives. ... You realize, of course, that this precludes us non-Canadian dialists from exhibiting our gnomonically proper noon guns. ;-) Which reminds me, I've always thought