Can-Am hosts panel on impact of Olympic games

Philip Chicola, Consul General, U.S. Consulate, Vancouver, B.C., talks during a seminar Wednesday at Western on “Vancouver 2010 Update: The Regional Impact of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games.” The seminar, attended by scholars and officials from both Canada and the United States, discussed the impacts and legacy of the Olympic and Paralympic games, and was the fourth in a series of town-gown programs looking at critical border, trade and security issues affecting the Pacific Northwest. Also pictured are Brian Burton, seminar moderator and dean of Western’s College of Business and Economics, and Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike. The seminar was hosted by WWU’s Center for Canadian-American Studies, Border Policy Research Institute, the Ross Professorship, and the Consulate General of Canada in Seattle.