Border Policy Research Institute
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| More Canadians paid a visit to Whatcom County in August | More than 1.42 million people crossed the five southbound border crossing into Whatcom County in August, according to data gathered by the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University. That’s… |
2017-10-10 | |
| BPRI Announces Cross-Border Research Fellowship opportunity | 2017-10-06 | ||
| Border cities on front lines of looming NAFTA clash | A Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute report found that Canada accounts for 31% of Washington state’s imports, a bigger proportion than any other country, and U.S. federal trade statistics show that bilateral trade between… |
2017-08-01 | |
| Canadian dollar is on the rise... will it continue? | Some expect the loonie rally to be short-lived. Laurie Trautman, director at the WWU Border Policy Research Institute, believes it has peaked and the current rally will not immediately change border crossing shopping habits. “I do expect the volumes to continue a… |
2017-07-25 | |
| Low Canadian dollar forces closure of the only grocery store in Sumas | A longtime retail landmark is going out of business this week, marking another closure among food markets in eastern Whatcom County. Cross-border traffic remains strong. Nearly 3.6 million people have crossed southbound… |
2017-05-24 | |
| WWU's Aquila Flower to Discuss Building a Digital Atlas of the Pacific Northwest May 3 | 2017-04-25 | ||
| Western to Host Economist Edward Alden May 8 | 2017-04-10 | ||
| Trump’s Homeland Security chief says he wants less restrictive Canadian border | They tried. Two senators, one Republican and one Democrat, prodded Donald Trump’s Homeland Security secretary on Wednesday to spell out his concerns about America’s northern border. John Kelly wouldn’t much budge. His unexpected answer: Canada is fantastic, and the… |
2017-04-06 | |
| WWU and NWIC to Co-Host Columbia River Treaty Symposium Feb. 22-23 | 2017-02-10 | ||
| Border traffic into Whatcom County continues to decrease | Southbound border traffic into Whatcom County in 2016 was the lowest in six years as the weak Canadian dollar continued to have an impact. The number of people who went through the five Whatcom County border crossings totaled a little less than 12.5 million last year, nearly 900,000… |
2017-01-23 |