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| Border traffic into Whatcom tracking close to 2013 level | The latest southbound border traffic data indicates Canadians are coming into Whatcom County at a slightly slower pace than 2013. |
2014-06-13 | |
| 'Beyond NAFTA' conference continues until 3 today on campus | 2014-05-15 | ||
| Market Report: Impact of weaker Canadian dollar still unclear | Heading into the end of the first quarter of 2014, it's still unclear what impact a weaker Canadian dollar is having on the Whatcom County economy. While some surveys and analyses by economists indicate less cross-border traffic from British Columbia, southbound traffic was actually… |
2014-03-10 | |
| Survey suggests more cross-border shoppers are staying home | The Canadian dollar’s fall in value over the past year has caused some residents north of the border to make fewer shopping trips into the U.S., according to a recent poll of people living in lower British Columbia. |
2014-03-04 | |
| Viewpoint: We need a 21st century U.S.-Canada border | On Dec. 7, 2011, President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper released the Beyond the Border Action Plan, which outlined a shared approach to security and trade facilitation for Canada and the United States. The goal is to address threats within, at and away from our borders… |
2014-02-14 | |
| WWU talk to focus on guest-worker policy between U.S., Canada | Laurie Trautman, who was recently appointed as the incoming associate director of Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute, will present a free talk, titled “Temporary Worker, Permanent Alien: Guest Worker Policy in the U.S. and Canada,” at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13… |
2014-02-10 | |
| Loonie falters, but optimism remains for cross-border business | While the recent weakening of the Canadian dollar against the U.S. dollar has raised concerns over potential impacts to Whatcom County’s tourism and retail industries, one Ferndale-based company sees the loonie’s drop a bit differently. |
2014-02-03 | |
| Border traffic into Whatcom County up 5.7 percent in 2013 | It was another big year for southbound border crossings into Whatcom County, but the traffic may start to level off if the Canadian dollar continues to weaken. Last year more than 16.2 million people crossed the Canada/U.S. border into Whatcom County, a 5.7 percent increase compared to… |
2014-01-22 | |
| We used to be the Canadians | Canadians at the border crossings in the northwestern-most county of the continental United States just keep on coming. |
2013-12-12 | |
| New Washington state magazine to target B.C. shoppers | The fierce competition for the Canadian shopping dollar just across the border in Washington state has spawned an idea to steer the sometimes-myopic Canuck shoppers away from malls and big-box stores, to the mom-and-pop shops. About 30,000 copies of "The Crossing Guide" magazine… |
2013-11-25 |