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   John MacDonald on September 23, 2015 at 3:37 pm

   Any chance of coming to the East Coast of Canada (like Halifax)?

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     Richard Carrier on September 23, 2015 at 9:37 pm

     I’d love to! But haven’t found any group out there who can fund a trip yet.

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     John MacDonald on September 24, 2015 at 7:21 am

     “Center For Inquiry Halifax” is always looking for speakers: http://centreforinquiry.ca/welcome-to-cfi-halifax/
     It would be a bit of a drive for me because I’m about 4 hours out of Halifax, but I would definitely love to hear you speak.

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       Richard Carrier on September 24, 2015 at 10:15 am

       The barrier is airfare. Rough estimate, $600. Plus my honorarium of $300. Room can be a volunteer’s guest bed or something, so that cost can be kept down. But that’s still almost $1000 to bring me out there. If we added local puddle jumps to the travel cost and I did several venues in Eastern Canada, my honorarium drops to $200 per venue, and the airfare can be split, so the cost could perhaps be cut a little, maybe to around $500-750 per venue, I’m not sure. But someone would have to organize that tour.

       This is not beyond the realm of possibility. But it’s a chore. And there would have to be sufficient interest among groups up there that they would cover the cost.

       I’ll add it to my speculative list of things to try and make happen. But usually it requires the orgs out there to take the initiative, and ask me how we can make it happen.

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   Richard Martin on September 24, 2015 at 8:58 am

   Hi Richard,
   Will you be just in Toronto or anywhere near Ottawa or Montreal in that timeframe?
   Richard Martin

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     Richard Carrier on September 24, 2015 at 10:17 am

     Just Toronto this time, unfortunately. I wanted to do more but we couldn’t pull a tour together.

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