Sunday, January 28, 2007

Illegal, but delicious immigrant salmon

A slightly old article about a different US-Canada border: the one between Canada and Alaska. It's relatively autonomous for people... but totally free for salmon. And it's causing this US official to freak out. After all, they should still be kept separate...

Friday, January 26, 2007

Border Sports?


Perhaps you are considering a sports facility as a program. Here are some images of volleyball being played across the US-Mexico border. Link to the LA Times article to read all about it.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

This is an audio file of the radio program "Worldview" from January 23rd. The whole program is devoted to border crossings and it specifically deals with the Canadian-American situation. There are MANY intresting facts and bits of history. Like, did you know there was another time in history when passports were required to travel between Canada and the US? And the best part is, you can listen to it as you work...

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Blogger Blocked at US Border!

Check this articale out from eweek. A man was turned away from re-entering the US because of his blog.
Blogger Blocked at U.S. Border

Border crossing problem

Conflict Analysis of the Schwartz Report, a study of the Windsor-Detroit border crossing conducted by researchers from the University of Windsor.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10498/33255/01571298.pdf?arnumber=1571298

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

(India + Pakistan) / Kashmir = Border?

The Defacto (ambiuous) border between Pakistan and India.

Iraq Border

I hope Windsor has a friendlier looking border guards