Well, it looks like my trip to NYC is not going to be my first North American foray beyond Alberta after all. I'm going to be in Toronto the week before. The cats are going to hate me.
OK, this glosses over a lot of stuff and is by no means the whole picture, but it isn't really intended to be. This is a very simplified, not-to-scale, timeline intended to show some of the complexity and historical context for what is going on at the moment. This is all straight out of my head and I didn't verify anything, so forgive me if I have made a mistake or two.