BLM biologist banned from Canada

Banned from Canada. Not quite what you'd expect from a 64-year-old fish biologist based here with the Bureau of Land Management. But if he happens to be Joe Kelly -- indicted anti-war activist better known in 1970 as one of the Seattle Seven -- high-tech databases have caught up with his past. One evening this summer, Kelly says, he was told to turn around at the border, after nearly four decades of being waved through into Canada. Nothing personal, but the Canadian government doesn't mess around about turning away people who've been convicted of a crime, even really old crimes. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, both the U.S. and Canada have used ever-expanding criminal databases that they share with each other. For Americans crossing into Canada, the databases have snared not only Joe Kelly, but plenty of guys (and it's mostly guys) who got themselves a DUI in their younger days and now are turned back at the border in front of their wives and kids...read more