Canada

Favorite defunct airlines, 10 best travel apps, most romantic cities in Canada (unknown to many Americans)

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This weekend we take a quick look at the bidding war for Washington DC slots, new taxes (well, old taxes reborn) on Canadians and padding expense reports.

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Victor Block takes us to Vancouver where the city sits nestled between the wavelets of the Pacific and the rising mountains. It is model of yin and yang from nature to its population.

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In these Montreal clubs music aficionados can find everything from basic rock and Canadian folk to poetry and new-age digital compositions. The venues range from a handful of tables to multi-level underground complexes. The constant is creativity pushing the envelope of music, incubating new talent and occasionally featuring those who have already arrived.

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Every winter people across Canada celebrate the severe weather with vibrant cultural festivals and none do it bigger or better than the French Canadians. Welcoming to English-speakers, the following are 5 festivals not to be missed this year.

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Canada says, “No,” to the US-style pat-downs, the St. Louis airport renovations will include public art, Delta wins another three union battles

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One of the least-understood areas of international airline operations is the granting of route authorization between various countries. Canada and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are in the midst of airline route negotiations that have boiled over into the political realm.

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Ned Levi explores the problems US travelers are having using their magnetic stripe technology based US credit cards in Europe, which uses “chip and pin” technology, and what plans, if any, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express have to mitigate their US cardholders’ problems who travel internationally.

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Ned Levi discusses the continuing problem of travel photographers being harassed, questioned, and sometimes detained, to stop them making photographs, by private security personnel, even when the pictures are being taken from public spaces. Ned suggests what you can do if it happens to you.

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British Columbia, Canada, has long been in the forefront of preservation of bald eagles. Right now (April/May/June 2010) an amazing webcam is capturing the unfolding progress of baby eaglets as they grow are nurtured and raised.

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