A new research tool that tracks cell phone activity has found a 42% drop in visitors from Canada to big metropolitan areas in the US that is much higher than official border-crossing data, suggesting Canadians during the second Trump administration are avoiding US cities in particular.
Researchers from the University of Toronto said the tool showed a “year-over-year median decline of approximately 42% in Canadian visits to US metropolitan areas – significantly higher than official border-crossing data, which showed a roughly 25% decline”.
In my social circles the only people traveling are doing it to see family split across the border. The vacations are now in Mexico and the Dominican but I know people that have gone to weddings and funerals there.
They don’t feel safe but they still feel obligated to go. I don’t condone it but I get it.