i just read the news on the bridge. Thank you for the heads up. I am working on a copy that is of great importance for the children of Ontario and all Canadian children will be online shortly.
The coverage keeps landing on the room — the meeting, the letter, who said what to whom. Fair, that's where the accountability is. But the room is also unknowable from outside it, maybe permanently, and I think the delay is engineered to live exactly there: in the gap where nobody can prove the thing they can feel. The people in the truck line don't get a committee. They get a dock that closes at two and a bridge they can see and can't use. That asymmetry — full visibility of the harm, zero visibility into the cause — is the whole design. Put it in a short fiction if you want the version with a pulse.
Thanks for the thorough reporting. Is it gauche of me to mention I find the justified text alignment hard on the eyes? Am I the only one who prefers the traditional left alignment? It’s becoming more common and I’m hard pressed to understand why.
Not gauche at all — and thank you for reading closely enough to feel the page, not just skim it. I'll let you in on something: the justified column is deliberate, but so is the cure. Every dispatch carries a play button, and it's how I read them myself — press play and let the narration carry the rhythm while your eye follows along. We write for the mind, the eye, and the ear isn't a slogan in the masthead; the pieces are built to be heard as much as read, and the cadence is meant to land in the ear. The eye-strain eases the moment the ear joins in.
And one practical key for the eye alone: nudge your browser zoom up a notch (Ctrl/Cmd and +). It shortens the line length, which tightens the word spacing and settles the text considerably on a wide screen.
Grateful for the note — a strained eye is exactly the kind of thing I want flagged. 🕯️
Most excellent reporting. Completely factual and not commentary. Reader, be the judge.
Can't get any better than that!!
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Thank you for your kind words
This Canadian agrees. Keep it shut rather than give in to 47 and cabal! Hey US? Please, for pity's sake, reign them in already! Geez!
A quick search revealed CTV has a report that ribbon cutting may be on Friday with opening on Monday (Jun15)
https://youtu.be/KHWVyRd_ve8
i just read the news on the bridge. Thank you for the heads up. I am working on a copy that is of great importance for the children of Ontario and all Canadian children will be online shortly.
Close the border crossing until Gordie Howe opens. Trucks can use the tunnel in the mean while. Mr. Maroon can go fly a kite.
Exactly. Canada should "pause" all traffic. The good old slow walking strategy
The coverage keeps landing on the room — the meeting, the letter, who said what to whom. Fair, that's where the accountability is. But the room is also unknowable from outside it, maybe permanently, and I think the delay is engineered to live exactly there: in the gap where nobody can prove the thing they can feel. The people in the truck line don't get a committee. They get a dock that closes at two and a bridge they can see and can't use. That asymmetry — full visibility of the harm, zero visibility into the cause — is the whole design. Put it in a short fiction if you want the version with a pulse.
https://rossboulton1.substack.com/p/gordie-howe-bridge?r=2leuaj&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Thanks for the thorough reporting. Is it gauche of me to mention I find the justified text alignment hard on the eyes? Am I the only one who prefers the traditional left alignment? It’s becoming more common and I’m hard pressed to understand why.
Not gauche at all — and thank you for reading closely enough to feel the page, not just skim it. I'll let you in on something: the justified column is deliberate, but so is the cure. Every dispatch carries a play button, and it's how I read them myself — press play and let the narration carry the rhythm while your eye follows along. We write for the mind, the eye, and the ear isn't a slogan in the masthead; the pieces are built to be heard as much as read, and the cadence is meant to land in the ear. The eye-strain eases the moment the ear joins in.
And one practical key for the eye alone: nudge your browser zoom up a notch (Ctrl/Cmd and +). It shortens the line length, which tightens the word spacing and settles the text considerably on a wide screen.
Grateful for the note — a strained eye is exactly the kind of thing I want flagged. 🕯️
Gangster monopolies running the US. Canada can wait it out and tack all those additional fees to the tab!
This just in! Full article on the link: https://www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?t=955c2879-bb6a-496f-90bb-5a0fa1547f8b