Border Policy Research Institute
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| Washington state’s once-bustling border towns and islands fall silent, due to coronavirus pandemic | Sharp-eyed dwellers of Washington’s northwest corner could look skyward in recent weeks and see thousands of snow geese — winter residents of the nearby Skagit Valley — gracefully winging their way north in a migration old as time. It was a welcome glimpse of seasonal business-… |
2020-05-18 | |
| Whatcom-B.C. border traffic will remain slow with Canadian coronavirus quarantines | The slowdown in traffic flow has been dramatic in places like Blaine. During the first two weeks of April, the two Blaine crossing saw just over 2,000 passenger vehicle entries into the U.S.; typically there are 155,000-160,000 passenger vehicles during this same time frame. That’s according to… |
2020-04-15 | |
| Economic forecast night highlights workforce, education | The panel included Tom Keegan, president of Skagit Valley College; Sabah Randhawa, president of Western Washington University; Isiaah Crawford, president of the University of Puget Sound; and Paul Pitre, chancellor for Washington State University’s Everett campus. Randawa said in the… |
2020-02-13 | |
| Quintin Oliver and Fiona MacMillan to Screen Films, Host Discussion on Peace in Northern Ireland March 4 at Western | 2020-02-11 | ||
| Canadians continue to shop in Whatcom | Despite a Canadian dollar that’s remained weak for several years, a new report shows shoppers from British Columbia continue to play an important role in Whatcom’s retail sector. Last month Western Washington University students working for the … |
2019-10-23 | |
| BPRI's Laurie Trautman named a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center | 2019-07-31 | ||
| Canada is feeling lonely, but its place internationally is still strong | On december 1st last year the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, a Chinese telecoms firm, as she prepared to change planes at Vancouver’s international airport. |
2019-07-26 | |
| Advocates push for passenger rail stop in Blaine | The event featured presentations by Bruce Agnew, director of the Cascadia Center; Dr. Laurie Trautman, director of Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute (BPRI); and others. Audience members including Blaine city manager… |
2019-07-18 | |
| The lessons of Bellingham’s Olympic Pipeline explosion | Recent developments in Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion saga remind us yet again of the inevitability of energy infrastructure debates in the West. By ruling that British Columbia’s government does not have… |
2019-06-05 | |
| Economic Forecast Night highlights growth, Canada relations | Keynote speakers Anneliese Vance-Sherman, a regional labor economist for the Employment Security Department, and Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University followed. |
2019-02-08 |