Several conferences relocate north of the border as Canadians refuse to travel to the U.S.

Business Travel May Suffer As Trump's Tariffs, Border Policies Fuel Global Concerns: Survey

Business travel may soon decline as international companies reassess economic and logistical hurdles created by President Donald Trump's trade wars and border policies.Nearly a third (29%) of corporate travel buyers now expect their compan…

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After U.S. President Donald Trump took office, sociologist Travers — who goes by one name — nixed plans to attend the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) conference in Seattle this November.  Travers, a full professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., is the president-elect of NASSS. But as a trans person, they are wary of visiting the U.S. at a time when the Trump administration is rolling back transgender right…

In Manitoba, too, several residents have decided not to visit our southern neighbours in the near future. 70% of Manitobans agree that they have cancelled or decided not to travel to the United States at this time. This figure is up from 60% in February. This was demonstrated by Probe Research in a survey published at the end of March (1). This is the case of John Ferrer and his family who were due to fly to Las Vegas. "We were due to leave in m…

Most Canadians say they no longer feel safe (or welcome) when travelling to the U.S.

With a tariff war and political tensions rising between Canada and the U.S., a new Léger survey suggests a growing number of Canadians are uneasy about crossing the border, and not just for patriotic reasons.According to data collected from over 1,600 people across the country for the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS), more than half of the respondents (52%) said they no longer feel it's safe for anyone in Canada to travel to the United Sta…