Anneke Smit

Airline Demand Between Canada & United States Collapses, Down 70%+ Future flight bookings between Canada and the United States are down by over 70% year-over-year in the summer months. WOW.

This is absolutely mind blowing.

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Shawn Micallef: Why the secret to unlocking Toronto’s retail future might be learning to go up and down stairs North Americans don’t naturally go up or down when shopping. With exceptions, we’re a ground-floor kind of place.

The fall of HBC got me thinking about all the empty spaces above & below ground in Toronto & what might become of them. Maybe shops, maybe places for culture. Discotheques in the PATH? A bar on the 6th floor of an old dep't store? Other countries go up and down just fine...my Star of Tor Ont column.

An honour to be present as a $37 million (!!) federal investment in housing and infrastructure for Lakeshore was announced this morning.

Cement and steel underpass

Cement and steel underpass

Cement and steel underpass

Cement and steel underpass

Site of the 1945 ford strike blockade that eventually established the Rand formula in labour relations. A 1930 depression era project to get under the rail corridor. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_St...

Our C4C Housing Lab team will be speaking next Thursday at this dialogue, on “Planning and the Housing Crisis in Windsor: at a Critical Juncture”. Join us.

Debate is good for democracy. *Most* of the parties running candidates in Windsor West and Windsor Tecumseh will be represented. Come out Wednesday at 7 if you can. There will be refreshments ☕️.

I support the focus on buying Canadian. But also in a border city: never has the connection between the 2 parts of this Canada-US urban region been more important. Proud of this cross-border Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE Detroit Windsor). Join tomorrow.

myinforum.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/m...

Every year since 1971, the people of Halifax have sent a Christmas Tree to the people of Boston as a thank you for Boston’s immediate aid in the aftermath of a devastating, deadly explosion in Halifax in 1917. 🇨🇦 🤝 🇺🇸

Some context here:

In the U.S. the tariffs are like one of 5 major political stories this weekend.

In Canada they are everything. Wall to wall coverage. The clicks on our tariff copy are setting records - never seen a reaction like this to a single-day news event.

Canada-US relations look really different at the border. RCE Detroit-Windsor is a broad cross-border (UWindsor and Wayne State) community-facing collab working on a sustainable urban future for the border region. Happy to connect you with the people who know what you need to know about #borderlife.

Nice to see you all here.