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Why Some Travellers Get Permission To Cross The Canada-U.S. Border And Others Don’t | CBC News

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 mdbincbi

Kim Zavesky is desperate to return to her home in Golden, B.C. After retiring last year, she and her husband — both Americans — sold their house in Chandler, Ariz., and moved most of their belongings to their second home in Golden, in southeastern British Columbia. The plan was to rent a place in the United States for the first part of the year and spend the rest of the year in Golden. But then the Canada-U.S. border closed to non-essential traffic in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, blocking the couple from accessing their Canadian property.…

Trump Ruffles Feathers, Sends Canadian Snowbirds Flying Elsewhere – Nova Scotia – CBC News

March 15, 2017 mdbincbi

The “Trump Factor” combined with a weak Canadian dollar has some snowbirds changing their vacation plans this year, according to one Halifax travel consultant. “Certainly what I hear from the hoteliers and the car rental companies, and so forth, that in the traditional snowbird destinations, the winter destinations for Canada, is that you’ve got about a 13 per cent to a 15 per cent drop in figures to date,” Bob Sime said in an interview Tuesday. Sime said many Canadian travellers are concerned about how they will be received, not…