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anyone fom canada

Other places to visit are Edmonton (about 4 hours drive north of Calgary) and Vancouver (on Pacific coast).

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2009-05-13 13:25:00

anyone fom canada

QUOTE (brokensmile @ May 12 2009, 10:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

hi to all canadian just wanna ask what is a good place in canada to visit or a tourist sites? just planning to go there maybe this summer but dont know which place to go...........like place to eat, place to stay etc....thanks

Calgary (I was raised there).

1988 Winter Olympics held there (you can experience actual events of some Olympic facilities in winter, speed-skate rink all year, for fee)
Rockies visible from many parts of city on clear day
easy driving distance of several National and Provincial Parks (Banff, Jasper, Waterton Lakes, Little Bow, ...) and one Provincial Park (Fish Creek) within city limits
You can walk around downtown using (mostly) Plus-15 passageways
Heritage Park, where you can experience simulation of early 20th century

(notes: Waterton Lakes is better suited for full-weekend trip from Calgary--as that gives time to enjoy boat-ride, which briefly crosses into MT; Jasper has bus-tour on Athabasca Glacier aka Columbian Icefields)

Places to stay, lots of options including:

hotel AT airport (lobby at departures level)
several hotels downtown
Motel Village, in nook of Trans-Canada and AB-1A highways

Eating places--again lots of options (see Calgary Yellow Pages, or you can do "drive along MacLeod Trail" approach which also will work), popular is McKay's Ice Cream in nearby Cochrane.

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2009-05-13 11:06:00

QUOTE (JillA @ May 26 2009, 02:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Apparently this normal in Quebec, but I think it's gross. Slice of cheese on top of apple pie

If one changes the pie filling, it's also known outside Quebec.

In Alberta for example, Saskatoon pie with cheddar or colby is excellent (yes, I have tried it).

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2009-05-26 14:08:00

QUOTE (chadlaure @ May 26 2009, 01:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Do you know what else is gross?? And there, all the Canadians are going to yell at me but I'm taking the risk

It's the brown sauce they give you at Swiss Chalet. That kind of tea sauce or I can't even define the taste of it. That doesn't taste good

But somehow I've never met one Canadian that doesn't like it

Would an ex-Canadian (due to wishing to apply Security-clearance jobs, I renounced Canuck citizenship) who doesn't know (due to never having gone to Swiss Chalet) whether he likes it count?

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2009-05-26 12:32:00

QUOTE (chadlaure @ May 26 2009, 12:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Bread/Toast and Yoghurt

In Levant (and also in Sub-continent) this is commonplace (ok, I stretched the idea of "bread" to include pitas, ...; and also the "yoghurt" to include dishes in which it is a major ingredient such as raita, kadhi, korma...)

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2009-05-26 11:46:00

QUOTE (Sprailenes @ May 25 2009, 11:19 PM)

Cat's sandwich thread got me thinking about this.

So is there any odd food combinations that you enjoy? Anything that makes another person do a double take but you insist that it's awesome??

I have a few and they are...

Canned tuna, rice and lemon pepper:
its awesome and my favorite thing to eat but it grosses my husband out every time I eat it.

Pretzels and cream cheese:
Also very yummy but most people give me weird stares when I eat it.

Toast dipped in tomato juice:
If I order toast in a restaurant I usually dip it in tomato juice. It's really good.

Well, I've made ketchup-toast sandwiches at home, so I'll take this as variation.

QUOTE (Sprailenes @ May 25 2009, 11:19 PM)

bacon and peanut butter:
I don't eat bacon very often but when I do I like to put peanut butter on it. But I have heard this is quite common.

Maybe we'll find others who enjoy the same thing we do and learn that we're not so uncommon after all.

QUOTE (*Marilyn* @ May 25 2009, 11:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I like ketchup on my mac and cheese and on my scrambled eggs... syrup is good on scrambled eggs too..

I've had omelets (hardly difference from scramble) with syrup when younger.

biryani plus hummous is an excellent (and very out-of-box so far for this thread) combination.

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2009-05-26 11:03:00

Neo-Citrin= What is the "American Equivalent"?

QUOTE (thetreble @ May 27 2009, 01:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

QUOTE (CherryXS @ May 27 2009, 12:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

TheraFlu is to Neo-Citran, especially taste-wise, as a Ford Focus is to a Jaguar

Do you want to take the GRE for me?

for $3,000 cash maybe.

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2009-05-27 13:24:00

Neo-Citrin= What is the "American Equivalent"?

TheraFlu is to Neo-Citran, especially taste-wise, as a Ford Focus is to a Jaguar

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2009-05-27 11:55:00

Border guards won't turn away passport-less Canadians

Last I checked a Citizenship Card is a "secure document".

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2009-06-02 10:10:00

X-Ray from Your Medical

QUOTE (July09Bride @ Jun 5 2009, 12:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

QUOTE (Marilyn. @ Jun 5 2009, 12:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have it rolled up in a tube somewhere....

I know.... you're saving it for the big baseball game, right? The rolled up X-Ray in the tube will be your bat???

The one I got in 1999 was a little hard to roll up, due to being rather rigid; It would have been usable easily for a base.

Edited by CherryXS, 05 June 2009 - 07:59 AM.

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2009-06-05 07:58:00

Travelling with 2 passports but wants to return back to Canada

QUOTE (xjennyinstereox @ Jun 8 2009, 09:48 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hello all,

I was wondering if you could help out with a question that I have. My sister has dual citizenship. She has Canadian citizenship (born and raised in Quebec) and also has EU Citizenship (Portuguese). She has been living abroad in Ireland for quite some time and will be returning to Canada in late summer.

She does not know which passport to use when returning, as she has been outside Canada for longer than 6 months, but would like to return back to Canada to make it her permanent home once again. She is thinking she will use her Canadian passport to leave Ireland so she can return to Canada using her Canadian passport. I know it's not smart to travel with two passports, but she did for whatever reason.

Will she encounter issues when she returns to Canada if she uses her Canadian passport? Will she be penalized for being out of the country for longer than 6 months? Any advice/information would be greatly appreciated.

Not true.

For those with dual-citizenship, the other passport actually makes it much easier to enter the non-Canada country.

(in the case the other country is the US, a US passport is mandatory)

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2009-06-08 09:36:00

Can I cash a canadian check in USA?

QUOTE (Hugglebuggles @ May 8 2009, 03:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Dang, I never thought of that? What happens when all of my Canadian family comes down to the wedding and gives me Canadian checks? Solutions?

Ask that they convert the funds to US$ and give as MO's.

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2009-05-08 14:48:00

Moving from Kamloops BC to Washington DC

Agree with Kathryn and Marilyn, sell stuff off ("two bird" solution, reduces amount to move and gives some cash useful for trip).

Even the car, it may be better to sell it, take cash and buy replacement after moving to DC-area (lots of ads in "Express" and "Examiner"--both free--as well as WaPo).

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2009-06-10 07:49:00

Moving from Kamloops BC to Washington DC

For importing car Canada to US, consult following thread:

http://www.visajourn...howtopic=185250

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2009-06-09 16:26:00

Advantages of dual citizenship usa/canada

QUOTE (Krikit @ Jun 10 2009, 09:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Okay, I'm really annoyed that the US can dictate what countries I can or cannot visit.

Along with all the other things said about naturalizing..... if your US citizen spouse dies and you move back to your home country, you cannot collect the survivor's pension if you have not naturalised.

You know I can top that one.

How about them dictating a "choice" to you on a life-issue due to their own incompetence and lack of training?

(specifically, TN-1 trying to bring into US a spouse from a non-NAFTA country; in theory possible, but Sod's Law dictates that the petition will be handled by an official who isn't NAFTA-cognisant and doesn't even want to be).

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2009-06-10 09:11:00

Advantages of dual citizenship usa/canada

QUOTE (Ecalos @ Jun 9 2009, 12:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've always been confused by the wording - not recognizing a dual citizenship between Canada and the US -
I took that as to mean, if I naturalized I would have to renounce my Canadian citizenship.

I take it this isn't the case?

Nope. The US oath states of "renouncing all other alliances" but they actually have no way (nor the intellect generally, even if they had a way) to check that you actually take all steps to renounce.

Renunciation of Canadian citizenship must be done explicitly by filing a CIT-0830 with CIC and paying a fee of C$100.

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2009-06-09 12:25:00

Advantages of dual citizenship usa/canada

There are also some travel advantages. A dual can travel to Cuba (against which US has had embargo since JFK's time) or Iran (Canada neither initiated nor received diplomatic-relations severance from there, unlike US) by using roundabout route and both passports.

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2009-06-09 08:14:00

Grocery Items Unavailable in the US

To update Krikit: please add "Gainsborough Pastry Dough" to your spreadsheet--I browsed the sites of Giant and Safeway (which I despise, as a Calgarian), and checked the frozen aisle in Food Lion, and it wasn't in any of them.

(they had pastry sheets and filo dough--neither of which will work for samosas)

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2008-07-03 14:03:00

I'm not Canadian (my fiancee is), but I've found things like Sour Patch Kids, Smarties, and some other items that have been listed here as Canada-only in the United States.

This kind of Smarties?

or the Halloween type Smarties that back home we call Rockets? I've got tonnes of those, but I've never seen a package of chocolate Nestle Smarties here in the US.

And we don't have a Walgreens, because we don't live anywhere near perfect

Sometimes stores near the border will have some Canadian items, but I'm nowhere near the border. So, no Smarties for me til I get home.

How close are you to Charlotte, Reba?

That city has at least some Indians--so one can get true (Brit, not Canuck) Smarties at any desi grocer.

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2006-10-31 09:59:00

except you can't take meat or cheese across the border. If they find it, they'll confiscate it.

Um, last I checked it was OK to take i-w slices or wrapped blocks across the border.

Would they also stop you from taking a thermocol-and-shrink-wrap package of meat across too?

They might allow the bagels tho.

They will also take fruit from you if they find it.

Which the officers at PFI's rarely do, even if they're carried brazenly in shopping bags.

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2006-10-26 07:24:00

...I cant find onion bagels either....

Every bagel place (such as Einstein's) sells these in DC-Balto area.

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2006-10-18 09:33:00

Earlier, I would probably miss NeoCitran (TheraFlu, as has been said, tastes gross; Wal-mart generic cheaper and tastes better than TheraFlu--but it's not NeoCitran). I suspect Pras could make something similar (minus the paracetamol--anyway, I can take a tablet to remedy THAT ingredient) from lemon juice, sugar and boiling water (she probably would PREFER making fresh medicine).

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2006-10-12 13:38:00

In no particular order, with family and friends as a given
- not as much crazy angled parking

yeah, what is with that?

They really seem into the angled parking in the US, and it never fails to throw me off

angled parking isn't exactly in short supply in Canada either.

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2006-10-12 08:19:00

...oh, and real flour

Do you mean Robin Hood?

...They apparently also don't have Silhouette yogurt ...

Um, I think that brand is restricted to ON (I've never seen it in AB)

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2006-10-06 08:10:00

Saskatoon Berries
Laura Secord chocolates and Ice Cream
quark cheese (spreads easily, unlike cream cheese)

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2006-10-04 17:12:00

Passport expires in 2008

Some answers:

You have heard of removing the I-94 (and/or visa) before sending in the passport? This is already commonplace with those on temp work visas (or F-1's).
As for the I-551--once you have the plastic (semi-perm, conditional) GC in hand, this is done with; some cases, no stamp is given (as in Pras' case)

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2007-01-29 08:49:00

Moving companies and/or trucks?

How about Ryder or Penske (under Hertz)?

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2007-02-02 12:12:00

How will I know which consulate?

The CR-1 is only processed through Montréal. (Alberta K-1s go through Vancouver, but not spousal visas.)

Are you sure?

I believe K-3's (a spousal nonimmigrant visa, the very idea of which confuses me greatly) can be processed in Vancouver.

True on CR-1 (immigrant spousal visa) as well as plain-jane GC--processed ONLY at Montreal.

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2007-02-06 17:59:00

Calgary's lone K-1 / K-3 doctor

I've found that many panel physicians in Montreal (never checked in Calgary) will accept plastic.

The charge will usually be in C$.

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2007-02-06 10:43:00

Travel Restrictions after married

And I also remember a VJ member with a Limey K-1 fiance, who wanted to go to Montreal for a honeymoon immediately after the marriage.

I posted that she could do so BEFORE (absurd as it may sound--as the Limey would be able to enter Canada at Montreal, spend a few days there, then go through the PFI) but not AFTER until the Limey received AP.

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2007-02-08 07:21:00

Travel Restrictions after married

So let me make sure I get this right:

Once I enter the US and get married I submit my EAD, AOS.

EAD - will take approx. 3 months to get and is valid for 3 months
You're confusing the JFK-issue EAD (hardly applicable to Canucks--rather inconvenient and expensive to arrange flights to ensure customs/immigration clearance at JFK) with the plain-jane EAD. The latter (which is the one which takes about 3 months to get) actually has validity for ONE YEAR (from issue date).

AOS- will take approx 6-18 months to get and I can only travel to Canada with an AP, which takes approx. 4-5 months to get. Once I get the AOS, I am then a Conditional Permenant Res., until I have to ask for the restrictions to be remove after the two years are up?
Also, validity of AP is one year (from issue date).

Generally, AP and EAD tend to arrive simultaneously

Actually going through Immigration at JFK from Canada is now impossible as the last Canadian airport that has flights to there (Halifax) now has a PFI station...

Not quite true, as it IS possible to book a flight from a Canuck airport to Heathrow (or any other major European hub) and then return to JFK--though I covered that case with my comment of "extremely expensive and inconvenient".

I heard that you can get a EAD stamp that is valid for 3 months at the Detroit/Windsor Bridge crossing. Would I still be able to apply for an EAD that is valid for 1 year, even if I have a EAD stamp that will run out after 3 months?

Yes. The two are disjoint--as the one-year EAD is part of AOS package, while the other is not.

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2007-02-06 12:38:00

Travel Restrictions after married

So let me make sure I get this right:

Once I enter the US and get married I submit my EAD, AOS.

EAD - will take approx. 3 months to get and is valid for 3 months

You're confusing the JFK-issue EAD (hardly applicable to Canucks--rather inconvenient and expensive to arrange flights to ensure customs/immigration clearance at JFK) with the plain-jane EAD. The latter (which is the one which takes about 3 months to get) actually has validity for ONE YEAR (from issue date).

AOS- will take approx 6-18 months to get and I can only travel to Canada with an AP, which takes approx. 4-5 months to get. Once I get the AOS, I am then a Conditional Permenant Res., until I have to ask for the restrictions to be remove after the two years are up?

Also, validity of AP is one year (from issue date).

Generally, AP and EAD tend to arrive simultaneously

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2007-02-06 11:02:00

Questions About Canada

Here's one to add.

A yank (driving a US car) was flagged down for doing 161 in a 100 zone. When the patrolman asked him "you know how fast you were going", he promptly replied "yeah, 100 Kanadian Miles Per Hour".

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2007-02-14 15:43:00

K-1 Visa - not in time for wedding

Why not have the mother of all engagement parties? Then elope for the wedding once you have the visa.

This one looks like the best option, IMO.

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2007-02-14 18:22:00

Do any US Airports have Canada Customs?

No, there's a reason of numbers here.

Lots of US airports service flights to/from Canada (largest number of course are to Pearson/Pigtown) where only 9 airports in Canada service US.

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2007-02-13 11:58:00

Car rental recommendations

One idea: rent from Buffalo, then take a bus to Buffalo (alone) and drive the rental back to Canada and take your stuff.

(you'll still get a dropoff charge, but it will be more in the order of $300 than $1000 this way).

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2007-02-21 08:19:00

K1 K3 Visa mix up

Answers:

If the I-130 is abandoned, they may not
No, they can be submitted simultaneously (as the entire concept of K-3 is rather confusing)

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2007-02-21 14:26:00

Heard an interesting story at my medical today

You can go to the boarder and pick up a R-1 (Religous Worker) Visa with a diploma and a letter of employement.. Maybe the guy has some type of letter dyslexia Who knows... the guy could just be a disturber too

AFAIK, the types that can be picked up at POE/PFI:

TN-1
R-1
L-1A/B
any DERIVATIVE (spouse of temp worker) visas (even if the "primary" temp worker visa cannot be picked up this way) so long as the beneficiary is Canuck

It's a lot like the popular myth amongst desis that a Canadian passport makes it easier to get a GC (no, as the issuance of GC's is tied to the BIRTH country of the applicant; I have enough proof of that having gone through a nearly 2-year "hurry-up-and-wait" delay in my own GC process which finished in Dec. 1999).

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2007-02-22 11:11:00

Heard an interesting story at my medical today

Also, there are very few visas where the beneficiary can "just go to the border and pick it up"--and they certainly DON't include the K-1.

While it IS possible for a TN-1 (one of the abovementioned few types) married to a USC to "upgrade" to a CR-1 (through filing an I-130 and asking for processing at Montreal), this has plenty of risks (such as if the beneficiary takes a holiday outside US, he/she risks being denied entry UNTIL THE CR-1 APPOINTMENT IS COMPLETED).

Shann76, the tale you heard was several bulker-loads of rubbish.

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2007-02-22 10:54:00