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| Weak Canadian dollar didn't stop these southbound visitors this year | Despite a relatively weak Canadian dollar, Whatcom County continues to see plenty of Canadian visitors. More than 5.3 million people have traveled southbound through the five Whatcom County border crossings in 2018 through May, according to data collected by Western Washington University鈥 |
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| 草榴社区鈥橲 Mary Moeller Wins Best Undergraduate Research Paper at National Conference | |||
| Border crossings into Whatcom are up 16 percent. What's driving this increase? | Border traffic into Whatcom County continues to increase and gas prices could be a big reason for it. Nearly 3 million people have traveled southbound through the five Whatcom County border crossings in the first quarter of 2018, a 16 percent increase compared to a year ago. That's also鈥 |
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| 草榴社区鈥檚 Border Policy Research Institute Begins Work on New 鈥楤order Barometer鈥 Project | |||
| Motorists flocking to Washington state to flee Metro Vancouver gas prices | 鈥淚鈥檇 say 90 per cent of the B.C. plates driving through are coming for gas,鈥 a member of U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday. 鈥淪ome of them say they鈥檝e driven for 40 minutes and then they鈥檝e been idling for an hour (waiting to pass through customs).鈥 It鈥檚 always been thus,鈥 |
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| Increase in border traffic in Blaine a rarity along Canada/US line | Border crossings in the Blaine region were the only ones along the Canada/US border to show an increase in traffic over a six-year period, according to data from a Washington state research organization. A recent report from the 鈥 |
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| A bridge too many? Falling border crossings raise questions about need for new span | Canada's declining position as a trading partner of the U.S. raises questions of whether two new six-lane bridges in Detroit between the Ambassador and the Howe bridges are needed, said Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University. 鈥 |
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| More Canadians paid a visit to Whatcom County in August | More than 1.42 million people crossed the five southbound border crossing into Whatcom County in August, according to data gathered by the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University. That’s鈥 |
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| BPRI Announces Cross-Border Research Fellowship opportunity | |||
| Border cities on front lines of looming NAFTA clash | A Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute report found that Canada accounts for 31% of Washington state’s imports, a bigger proportion than any other country, and U.S. federal trade statistics show that bilateral trade between鈥 |