40,000 honey bees rescued from site of Canadian inspection plaza

The company contracted to do site preparation work for the new Canadian inspection plaza got quite a “buzz” when they discovered a large bee hive which was literally wrapped around the trunk of a maple tree some 15 feet above the ground. Unlike other…

DRIC / NITC will improve border processing and capacity

An outage to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection import/export processing system on November 11, 2014, resulted in clogged roads in Windsor and other Ontario border communities and frustrated cross border drivers. The outage started in the early hours…

New appointments to the Board of Directors of the WDBA and International Authority

At a media event on November 10, 2014, MP Jeff Watson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, announced the final appointments to the Board of Directors of the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority and the International Authority. “We need dedicated…

Land clearing begins in Detroit

The clearing of land that will allow for construction of the new publicly-owned bridge between Detroit and Windsor has begun on the U.S. side. Demolition crews started work on clearing three blighted and abandoned publicly-owned structures on South Post Street,…