{"id":556,"date":"2026-05-11T10:40:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:40:03","slug":"researchers-find-42-drop-in-canadians-visiting-us-metro-areas-amid-trump-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find 42% drop in Canadians visiting US metro areas amid Trump 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data from University of Toronto suggests Canadians are avoiding US cities during the second Trump administration<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/mappingtariffs.org\/canada-us-visits\">research tool<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Toronto said the tool showed a \u201cyear-over-year median decline of approximately 42% in Canadian visits to US metropolitan areas \u2013 significantly higher than official border-crossing data, which showed a roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/t1\/tbl1\/en\/tv.action?pid=2410005301\">25%<\/a> decline\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/11\/canadians-visiting-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from University of Toronto suggests Canadians are avoiding US cities during the second Trump administration A new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}