‘Can’t beat the weather’: Canada’s snowbirds still flocking to US

The retired couple is part of a formidable flock of snowbirds still wintering in the U.S. New border scrutiny and anger over the U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have thinned the flock. However, “you just can’t beat the weather,” said cross-border real estate advisor Miles Zimbaluk, a Canadian from Saskatchewan who went down to Phoenix, Ariz., 11 years ago in the middle of January for a little golf and never left. “That’s not going to change,” said Zimbaluk, CEO of Canada to USA Inc. “As long as it’s going to be minus 20 or 30 in Canada, I think the Canadians are going to keep coming, no matter what the political environment.”