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| Fifteen minutes, tops, then we're out of here! | Who crosses the border at Point Roberts? The picture painted by a recent survey is overwhelmingly one of Canadians who come down for gas and mail, and they only stay on the Point for 15 minutes. This year Point Roberts was included in the Whatcom Council of Governments (COG) and Western… |
2013-11-25 | |
| U.S. senators launch bid to divert container traffic from B.C. ports | The Port of Prince Rupert’s Fairview container terminal, which is operating beyond capacity, sends about 60 per cent of its import containers to U.S. destinations and senators from Washington state have launched a bid to slap a per-container fee on all that cargo. American interests,… |
2013-08-22 | |
| Report: Bridge collapse kept Canadian shoppers away | After the Skagit River Bridge collapsed May 23, many business owners in Burlington and Mount Vernon reported declines in customer traffic of 15 to 80 percent, including patronage by increasingly important Canadian shoppers. |
2013-08-16 | |
| Canadian border guards waive duty fees at peak times | It turns out Canadian shoppers can sometimes get even better-than-expected savings by shopping in the U.S. if they time it right at the border crossing. In-depth articles published earlier this month in the Vancouver Sun and other Canadian newspapers indicate that for the past 13 years,… |
2013-08-08 | |
| Officials meet to discuss 'Beyond the Border' plan | 2013-08-01 | ||
| WWU students to do survey on cross-border travel | Whatcom County soon will get a better idea of the impact cross-border travel has in this area. The Whatcom Council of Governments is partnering with Western Washington University's Border Policy Research Institute on a large-scale survey of travelers going through the five Whatcom… |
2013-07-11 | |
| Students helping to conduct survey of border crossers | 2013-07-10 |