Across the Medicine Line

  Today, the Gordie Howe Bridge officially opened. Finally. After a decade of construction, cabinet-level interference, presidential threats, a flood of disinformation, and inflammatory demands. The second bridge spanning the Detroit River from Michigan to Ontario, The Gordie Howe Bridge was intended to relieve traffic across the Ambassador Bridge, a privately held span that funnels people, commercial goods and culture across North America’s busiest international crossing.   Every day the Ambassador Bridge was responsible for 10,000 vehicles daily, and 25% of Canada’s imports for a total of $360 million in trade per day. But that was before the second Trump administration, punishing tariffs, and especially , the President’s repeated threats of involuntary annexation. More than a decade earlier, on May 14, 2015, Stephen Harper, the Conservative Prime Minister of Canada and Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder announced that the planned new trade conduit was to be na...