Domestic Queen and Ex-con Martha Stewart almost had her plans to visit Canada on their Thanksgiving Day dashed, thanks to the country's immigration ban on undesirables.
Had the ban held, the lifestyle diva would have missed this weekend's annual gourd gala and pumpkin festival in Windsor, near Halifax, in Nova Scotia, which would have been taped for her "Martha" show.
Canada bans convicted felons from entering the country, although not all residents of the Great White North see the dastardly maven as a national threat: "I have no fear of her burying us with her prison poncho throwing a homemade pie," said Stockwell Day, foreign affairs chief for the opposition Conservative Party. "She's no threat to Canada. They should let her in. The whole thing is crazy." Day added that immigration officials frequently grant exemptions to the no-criminals rule.
But wait! A last minute deal was cut today to issue a visa and allow her to cross the border. Holy great pumpkins! Martha says she is looking forward to stepping in an enormous, hollowed-out gourd and joining the parade of paddlers as they cross Lake Pesaquid in the annual charity Pumpkin Regatta.
