Canadians still avoiding travel to the US
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‘Canadians don’t want to come here any more’: anger over Trump squeezes US border businesses
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/28/canada-us-border-business-pay-trump-tariffs
I wonder if Canada can ever forgive us for the person who got elected in 2024....
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“It was the first time outside of the pandemic lockdown period that Canadian travel abroad outpaced ground trips to the U.S. since at least 1972, when Statistics Canada began keeping records, the agency said.
In January, 1.5 million Canadian residents returned from overseas, a jump of 10.6 per cent from the same month a year earlier. By contrast, the number of residents crossing back into Canada from the U.S. by automobile fell 26.3 per cent to 1.3 million over the same period.”Excerpt From
“Canadians flock to overseas travel as U.S. boycott deepens”
Jason Kirby
The Globe and Mail
https://apple.news/AuXdbCJhETvqkGtwVTQmGeg -
Good article. It's not just the border towns that are feeling the impact.
In Las Vegas, where the latest statistics from Harry Reid International Airport show the number of passengers arriving on WestJet and Air Canada flights plunged 25.2 per cent in 2025 from the year before, some casinos have offered to accept the Canadian dollar at par.
A non-paywall version of the Globe and Mail article:
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The main industry in Hawaii if you don't count land trusts (and you shouldn't because these are the trusts that used to own agricultural production all of which is gone) and real estate (and you shouldn't because the market has become heavily weighted in the favor of billionaires) is tourism.
For one thing, the tourism industry is seasonal in the best of times.
It nosedives in times of trouble (e.g. 9/11, The Great Recession).
I don't know how it's doing now but my gut instinct tells me it's not a good situation.
Dol, I'm sure you're familiar with the iconic American late night comedy show Saturday Night Live.
I distinctly remember watching it one night as a child.
The skit was that it was Christmas Eve and the American military let it's guard down because it was such a peaceful time. It was then that a fictional Canada chose to invade the US.
It was such a good performance.
I think it's sad how times have changed. It makes it even worse to me that I can't think of any good reason why it had to happen.
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