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| With marijuana now legal in Canada, what will that mean for border crossings? | With recreational marijuana now legal in Canada, officials are warning travelers: Make sure there is no cannabis in the car when you try to cross the international border — in either direction. Canada legalized the use of marijuana across all provinces Wednesday, allowing sales for… |
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| Canada is about to legalize cannabis; here’s what you need to know | On Wednesday, Canada will become the largest country in the world to legalize cannabis. The move will not only drastically reshape marijuana in that country, but means that the entire West Coast — from Alaska to California — has become a marijuana marketplace where the formerly taboo drug is… |
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| Cross-border collaboration forum at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø on Oct. 24 | The Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University is hosting a one-day policy forum to discuss the state of regional cross-border collaboration in three key sectors and to identify avenues to advance these efforts, as well as barriers that exist… |
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| Trump trade negotiator warns that Canada is running out of time | If the trade agreement changes, it could impact Whatcom County in a variety of ways, including labor mobility, a weaker Canadian dollar and fewer goods crossing the border Laurie Trautman, director at Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute, told The Bellingham Herald… |
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| Washington’s border towns have become proxy addresses for Canadian online shoppers | The weakening of the Canadian dollar versus the U.S. dollar in recent years has had an effect at the land border crossings closest to the Vancouver metro area. Traffic is down, but the percentage of border crossers who said they drove across to pick up mail is rising. This detail comes from a… |
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| With high B.C. gas prices, sales in Blaine jump 50 percent | Along with the increase in gas sales, southbound border crossings at Peace Arch and Pacific Highway increased 16.2 percent from May 2017 to May 2018, the most recent month for which numbers are available, according to Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute (BPRI).… |
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| NAFTA renegotiation outlook ‘changes with the wind’ | A bi-national policy forum called the |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø’s Border Policy Research Institute Begins Work on New ‘Border Barometer’ Project | ||||
| Canadian dollar is on the rise... will it continue? | Some expect the loonie rally to be short-lived. Laurie Trautman, director at the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Border Policy Research Institute, believes it has peaked and the current rally will not immediately change border crossing shopping habits. “I do expect the volumes to continue a… |