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| This Washington border county is desperate for Canadians | Canadian vehicle traffic entering the United States at Whatcom County鈥檚 three crossings fell by 65,000 in the first three weeks of March, about 42% lower than the same period a year ago and steeper than the 30% -drop in February, according to Western Washington University鈥檚 Border Policy鈥 |
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| Canadian Road Trippers Boycotting U.S. Could Mean A $4 Billion Economic Loss | Given the boycott, such an increase would be 鈥渁lmost impossible,鈥 Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University, told Forbes. |
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| Border-dwelling Americans worry about the fallout from a U.S.-Canada trade war | The trade dispute will have far-reaching spillover effects, from price increases and paperwork backlogs to longer wait times at the U.S.-Canada border for both people and products, said Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington鈥 |
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| WA seeing fewer Canadians after Trump, tariffs and talk of 鈥51st state鈥 | And while it鈥檚 impossible to blame that plunge entirely on politics, the timing is telling, says Laurie Trautman, director of 草榴社区's Border Policy Research Institute. |
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| Trump鈥檚 tariff threats stress WA鈥檚 Point Roberts | Laurie Trautman, director at the Border Policy Research Institute with Western Washington University, said it is difficult to tell what impacts the tariffs could have on border towns like Point Roberts because things have not been normal since COVID. |
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| Borderlands anxiety prompts wider reflection on bioregionalism | Commentary by Journalism Professor Derek Moscato There鈥檚 a lot of talk about Canada-U.S. relations these days, thanks mostly to President Donald Trump鈥檚 move to apply tariffs to exports from up north. Canada had already announced retaliatory measures by the time Trump and Canadian鈥 |
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| What a trade war with Canada could mean for Washington state | "The cost of goods will go up if tariffs are enacted. There is no doubt," said Dr. Laurie Trautman, director of the at Western Washington University. She says the economic impacts of the border battle would likely鈥 |
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| The U.S. is installing more rock barriers to target illegal border crossings. Will they work? | "My perspective is that much of what we see happening along the physical barrier is a little bit of political theatre," said Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University. |
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| Trump鈥檚 proposed Canada tariff could boost Northwest energy bills | 鈥淭ariffs are on us,鈥 said Jennifer Bettis, research manager at the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University. 鈥淭ariffs are imposed on goods once they arrive in the United States and are paid for by the companies that import said products, and they can choose to pass鈥 |
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| A new book looks at how border closures divided lives during COVID | It鈥檚 been five years since Covid 19 began spreading around the world from its origin in Wuhan, China. In that emergent time of the pandemic, there was widespread concern about clusters of the virus, in Italy, then Iran, then an outbreak at a nursing home in the Pacific Northwest. By鈥 |