Canada

While the CRTC's recent reprimand of three Toronto X-rated channels for failing to meet the required 35 per cent threshold for Canadian content became fodder for Internet humour, Canadian content regulations are no laughing matter for cultural nationalists.
Indeed, one of the oldest…

The CRTC’s recent crackdown on a trio of X-rated channels for not showing enough Canadian content is a classic example of how government policies supporting Canada’s entertainment industry are costly and inefficient, says Steven Globerman, author of a new Fraser Institute study on the government…

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…

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.
Steve Mossop, president of Insights West, a Canadian market research firm…

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…

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…

In recent years, many educators have come to question the very stuff that makes up a large part of a modern-day education - the body of knowledge and facts that students learn and memorize, then regurgitate on tests and exams.

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.
For the past two decades, International Market Access…