Canadian Ire Over Trump Taunts Is Spilling Onto US Ski Slopes

Vermont’s Jay Peak—a ski resort just minutes south of the border with Quebec—has long relied on Canadian visitors to help populate its 81 slopes and trails. In a normal year, the mountain gets more than half its profits from those border-crossing guests. So when Steve Wright, Jay Peak Resort’s president and general manager, saw at the start of summer that Canadian renewals for the 2025-26 season had fallen an alarming 35%, he jumped into action, calling about 100 Canadian season-pass holders to personally ask why they hadn’t made plans to return. As Wright testified before Congress shortly after during a ...