Jan. 31, 2017
Calls to boycott travel to the US as a show of protest against President Donald Trump's travel ban are growing louder, with the biggest appeals coming from some individuals in its closest neighbor: Canada.
Following Trump's wide sweeping ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, American protesters have been filling up airports and marching outside US consulates to express their outrage.
But the ban is also spurring non-Americans to show their solidarity with those affected, including a growing movement north of the border where Canadians are placing self-imposed travel bans to the US, and where the country's biggest daily newspaper, The Toronto Star, published a commentary this week calling on fellow Canadians to do the same.
"...the reprehensible Trump travel ban demands a personal response. As an ordinary citizen there is something you can do," wrote Mark Bulgutch, a journalism professor at Ryerson University in Toronto and former journalist.
"You can tell the president that if he closes the door on people who don't deserve such callous treatment, we won't be using the door he has left open for us. We'll stop visiting the United States."
Read more at https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-travel-ban-prompts-calls-boycott-travel-us-113842650.html
