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| Whatcom border travel decreased 83% in 2020. Will a new U.S. administration bring change? | After a year when the pandemic made non-essential cross-border travel nonexistent, 2021 is expected to be a year of a slow, gradual recovery. The number of people who crossed the border into Whatcom County from British Columbia in 2020 totaled 2.1 million, according to data gathered by鈥 |
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| U.S. and Canada announce COVID-19 border closure extended until at least Feb. 21 | The United States and Canada have extended the closure of the border to non-essential travel between the two countries until Feb. 21 in an continuing effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, according to tweets Tuesday from both sides of the border. All essential travel, such as that for鈥 |
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| U.S. and Canada announce COVID-19 border closure extended until at least Feb. 21 | The United States and Canada have extended the closure of the border to non-essential travel between the two countries until Feb. 21 in an continuing effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, according to tweets Tuesday from both sides of the border. All essential travel, such as that for鈥 |
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| The U.S.-Canada border closure for COVID expires Saturday 鈥 will it actually reopen? | The border closure to non-essential travel between the U.S. and Canada is set to expire on Saturday, Nov. 21, but Canadian media is reporting it will likely be extended once again until almost Christmas. 鈥 |
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| The U.S.-Canada border closure for COVID expires Saturday 鈥 will it actually reopen? | The border closure to non-essential travel between the U.S. and Canada is set to expire on Saturday, Nov. 21, but Canadian media is reporting it will likely be extended once again until almost Christmas. 鈥 |
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| Cascadia group proposes a way to handle population growth and avoid Whatcom County sprawl | If this idea of hub cities were to take hold, could Whatcom County end up with one? If so, would it serve Seattle, Vancouver, B.C., or both? It would be hard to say, as the current border restrictions remind us that being a hub to the closest metro area of Vancouver, B.C., could be impacted by鈥 |
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| It鈥檚 official: Canada announces extending border closure with U.S. a sixth time | Canadian Minister of Public Safety Bill Blair tweeted that the U.S.-Canadian border will remain closed to non-essential travel until Oct. 21 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 鈥淲e are extending non-essential travel restrictions with the United States until Oct. 21, 2020,鈥 鈥 |
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| When and how will the U.S.-Canadian border open? These experts have some ideas | Laurie Trautman, one of the panelists and the director for the at Western Washington University, estimated that Whatcom County lost $60 million in cross-border retail鈥 |
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| Border travel restrictions extended as B.C. now dealing with rise in COVID-19 cases | The travel restriction continues to hurt Whatcom County retailers, which see peak cross-border travel numbers in the summer. In 2018 Canadians spent an |
Whatcom County retailers are being impacted by the U.S.-Canada border restrictions, but a policy report indicates that Blaine is really feeling the brunt of it. The at Western鈥 |