{"id":558400,"date":"2026-03-24T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/558400\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:26:08","slug":"canadians-made-fewer-round-trips-to-the-u-s-in-january-statcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/558400\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians made fewer round-trips to the U.S. in January: StatCan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New data from Statistics Canada shows the number of Canadian residents making round trips to the United States was down in January 2026 compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>StatCan says Canadian residents made 2.1\u00a0million return trips to the U.S. in January 2026, marking a 22 per cent decline compared to January 2025. This is the\u00a013th consecutive month of year-over-year decline.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, trips to Canada by U.S. residents went down 0.3 per cent from January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians travelling more overseas<\/p>\n<p>Compared to January 2025, StatCan says the number of Canadian residents making round trips to countries overseas increased 10.6 per cent, while those travelling into Canada from overseas decreased 2.1 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The agency says\u00a0303,200\u00a0overseas residents arrived in Canada, down\u00a02.1 per cent, and marking the first decline since March\u00a02025. <\/p>\n<p>In January, the top three countries of residence for overseas visitors to Canada were from Mexico, the United Kingdom and France \u2014 all three destinations accounting for\u00a028.2 per cent of all overseas arrivals in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Canadian residents making trips overseas saw an increase of 10.6 per cent in January\u00a02026 compared to 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New data from Statistics Canada shows the number of Canadian residents making round trips to the United States&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-558400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}