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If Detroit Tunnel Goes on the Block, Windsor Wants It | Wall Street Journal

If Detroit Tunnel Goes on the Block, Windsor Wants It – Canada Real Time – WSJ.

Debt-laden Detroit, which filed for bankruptcy last week, isn’t planning to sell off assets to pay back its creditors. But if any Detroit assets do go on the market, a Canadian mayor says there’s one his city wants.

It’s not landmark sites like the world-class Detroit Institute of Arts, the 982-acre island park of Belle Isle, or the 125-acre Detroit Zoo that Windsor, Ontario Mayor Eddie Francis has his eye on. Rather, the neighboring Canadian city wants full ownership of the busy underwater Canada-U.S. tunnel that runs between the cities.

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Cuomo and Canadians in Verbal War Over Peace Bridge | NYTimes.com

Cuomo and Canadians in Verbal War Over Peace Bridge – NYTimes.com.

FORT ERIE, Ontario — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s administration is known for its combative stance toward lawmakers, bureaucrats and reporters alike.

Now, the administration has all but declared war on a new enemy: Canada.

Or, at least, an arm of the Canadian government.

At issue is the 3,580-foot bridge that crosses the Niagara River between Buffalo and this Canadian town. It is called the Peace Bridge, though its name does not seem especially apt now.

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