Bridging Political Waters

June 16th, 2011 · 8 Comments

Everything you wanted to know about the bridge debate — except how and when it will end.

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Bridge Criticism Doesn’t Hold Water

May 26th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Canada’s consul general says proposed Detroit River bridge is risk-free “gift” to state.

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Canada’s Mercifully Short Election Campaign

April 13th, 2011 · 3 Comments

The May 2 vote is expected to have little effect on “the most important relationship in the world.”

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Building a Stronger Michigan-Canada Region

February 20th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Promoting the Michigan-Canada region as a transportation, distribution and logistics cluster could produce 70,000 new jobs.

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Bridge Deal Poses First Big Test

January 20th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Gutsy move backing a new international bridge provides the governor with his first big test.

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‘Canadian Sensibilities are Michigan Sensibilities’

December 16th, 2010 · No Comments

Consul General Roy Norton is the Canadian government’s new chief representative in Michigan and three other states

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Looking Out for the Great Lakes

October 24th, 2010 · No Comments

Water quality is a major issue in the special economic and social relationship between Michigan and Canada.

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Stitching and Weaving Politics and Policy

April 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Stitching and Weaving Politics and Policy by John Lindstrom Gongwer News Service April 30, 2010 May beckons, and with it a growing sense of urgency seems to build in state government. Deadlines, hard deadlines in some cases, loom, so the weavers that stitch together policies and politics together have stepped up at least their public [...]

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Border Security Trumps Local Economic Opportunity

April 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Border Security Trumps Local Economic Opportunity Is Michigan doing enough to make sure Port Huron and other border communities connect with their Canadian neighbor? by John Foren April 16, 2010 PORT HURON — It is early afternoon on a beautiful Friday, the last vestiges of ice floes are streaming down the St. Clair River and [...]

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Bridge Blockers

February 18th, 2010 · 7 Comments

Bridge Blockers by Jack Lessenberry February 19, 2010 The Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce, that stalwart defender of private enterprise, wants a new, internationally controlled bridge built between the United States and Canada. So does Governor Jennifer Granholm, her political opposite, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, and the governments of Windsor, Ontario and Canada. [...]

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