Center for Canadian-American Studies
Western Washington University's Center for Canadian-American Studies will co-host a screening of the Canadian documentary, "Anthropocene: The Human Epoch" at 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Pickford Film Center, 1318 Bay St. in Downtown Bellingham. The…
Western Washington University’s Center for Canadian-American Studies will host Canada Week from March 4-9, featuring exciting campus and community-wide events including a series of film screenings, discussions, guest lectures, student-faculty connection events and field trips.
Canada Week…BELLINGHAM – Biophysical chemist, author, and mountaineer Arlene Blum will give a talk titled “Women in High Places: To Annapurna and Beyond,” at Western Washington University from 4 - 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25 at Western Libraries in the Reading Room (Wilson Library 4th Floor Central). This event…
Public Lecture, 11:30am-12:30pm, Fine Arts Building Room 238
Please join us for a public lecture on Tuesday, November 27, 11:30am, in FI238, by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti PhD, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change at the University of British…
For Whatcom County retailers, the holiday season was not so jolly.
Sales of goods sold in stores were down 5.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015 compared to a year earlier, according to newly released data from the Washington State Department of Revenue. Whatcom was the only county in…
A new study released by the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University found year-over-year sales from online retailers has slowed significantly since 2010.
Online sales is one of the largest economic drivers for border towns like Blaine and Sumas. Canadians from…
It’s clear fewer British Columbia residents are shopping at Whatcom County stores since the Canadian currency has weakened, but it appears they also have cut back on having online products shipped here.
A U.S. healthcare services company is poised to become the single largest player in the Canadian retail pharmacy sector, both supplying and selling drugs at retail, a move competitors say will put them at a disadvantage.
“The supplier who supplies me with medicine now competes with me…
The Salish Sea is a vibrant international region, teeming with change—so it should come as no surprise that an international field school which puts dynamic learning experiences at the heart of sustainability leadership reflects those characteristics as well.
With the Canadian dollar remaining weak throughout 2015, last year was the slowest in terms of local southbound border traffic in five years.
Last year just under 13.4 million people entered Whatcom County through the five border crossings, 2.5 million people fewer than in 2014, according…