Peace Arch

Yeah.

Right? So, um, I grew up on the other side, so close to, uh, the border with Blaine, Washington, at the Peace Arch, and you would essentially go over for lunch, meet friends, hang out, and then go back home at the end of the day.

Or you'd cross the border and buy some milk and cheese because it was cheaper in the United States, and that's sort of like daily life, right? And tourism, what's really interesting, if you look at the statistics on tourism from Canada to the United States, there's been a significant drop.

Last year, what we saw in about July as sort of like the peak of the tensions that we were seeing, there was an almost, like, 30% drop, okay? So to put that in context, the only comparable statistics we have of when there was a drop that large from when we started recording these data, uh, was, like, in the 1930s, would probably be 9/11, and that's the border actually being shut down physically.

Crane mats, trailers, fencing, and crew parking will line parts of that street, which stays one way eastbound from Two Hundred Street to Two Hundred and Third Street.

On Saturday at the Peace Arch, Canadians, Americans, and dual citizens stood at the border and asked for better relations between the two countries, CBC British Columbia reports.

That report says Canada-US trade tensions are still a central issue in the provincial campaign.

The same group has gathered at Peace Arch Park every two weeks since March twenty twenty-five.

Global BC reports that a North Vancouver man who impersonated a Mountie and pulled drivers over received a conditional discharge, and he could avoid a criminal record.

New BC Conservative leader Loren Dorksen told CBC that the party platform has not changed much from twenty twenty-four.

All right, the major activities in the campaign so far, including yesterday, I expect we'll see them carry into today.

Premier David Eby, the BC NDP leader, was at the Peace Arch border crossing, saying he will triple the amount of U.S. healthcare workers coming into British Columbia with a new $15 million investment in forgiving loans and paying moving expenses for those American healthcare workers.

Mostly, he used that press conference to ramp up his rhetoric that the BC Conservatives want to turn...

B.C. into America Junior, that a vote for them means privatized health care and that they want to cower at the very thought of Trump at one point doing a little physical cowering routine at the podium as long as well as various other insults.

It seemed like it was more than just, uh, the name of a highway.

And, uh, you went from Maine all the way to the Peace Arch in Vancouver in British Columbia.

Give us just a, kind of an overview before we dig into some of the details.

Where did you go, and how much time did you spend doing this, and, and when was it?

There's all these people getting clickbait and, and, uh, the world is, like, covered with tourists and travelers like ants on a bruised peach." [laughs] I thought, whoa.

And you said, "This is probably gonna be my last book." And then at the end of your book, you just say, "You know, I was wrong." I mean, here you are.

You're, I, I can picture you parked at the Peace Arch, you know, this beautiful border between Seattle and Vancouver, and you've done your trip.

You've done trans-Canada.

Paul Johnson at YVR tonight.

The annual September 11th memorial ceremony at the Peace Arch border crossing took on new significance today, and not just because it's the 25th anniversary.

Travis Prasad has the details.

Law enforcement officers and first responders from both sides of the border opening a solemn ceremony at the Peace Arch crossing.

The annual public event hosted by the 9-11 Northwest Memorial Committee marking 25 years since the 9-11 attacks.

We must never forget because history will repeat itself we must stand vigilant arm and arm together and ensure that we both nations can the United States are there for each other.

The commemoration comes as a trade war strains relations between Canada and the U.S.

We may have our disagreements, but we all know we're family.

I've been doing emails out and talking to people and calling people and trying to get as many people to come see it, get involved in it.

I mean, if you've got a car and you want to go up there, you're more than welcome to follow behind to go up to the Peace Arch up there in Blaine.

It's not very far up to go.

It's such a...

gotcha.

And now I understand that there is a larger event happening there.

at the Peace Arch, I think sometime around 11 a.m. or so.

Is this bike, motorcade, if you will, are they going to be part of those festivities, or they're just showing up in