i think that there needs to be a criminal investigation into this organization to determine why it's doing business in iran.

certainly, any donors are entitled to an explanation as to why they are doing business in iran instead of buying food in canada.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/daily-bread-food-bank-says-ship-carrying-90k-worth-of-food-destined-for-toronto-was-hit-in-the-strait-of-hormuz/

i'd like to see some new venues open up on sandwich street.

there's a dom in windsor that should greatly benefit from the new bridge.

worse is this idea that cancelling the tunnel bus is going to coerce me to spend more money in canada. wrong. 

the more correct way to think of it is that the tunnel bus was drawing me into the downtown core on days i wouldn't have otherwise gone downtown at all. i may have taken a few shots before i left, or otherwise spent money downtown on my way to and from the bus. cancelling the bus means i'll spend less money downtown because i have less reason to go downtown, and sending me on a detour to the new bridge is going to see me spend more money in lasalle or sandwichtown, instead. the new bridge is going to shift the centre of the city away from ouellette and to the southwest. in 20 years, we may call this area lasalle-windsor, or go back to calling it sandwich.

it's maybe not realized, although i don't know how people could miss it, that the reason downtown windsor shifted from sandwich town to ouellette in the first place was because the tunnel and the tunnel bus was there. you cancel or shift or undo that and you cancel or shift or undo downtown, because the major reason people go to downtown windsor is to go back and forth from detroit.

the problem with mayor dilbert is that he's a dork-ass family values conservative loser. we need somebody that's more interested in individual rights and less interested in family values and sees the priority in funding things like the tunnel bus, while slashing funding for stupid christmas bullshit.

from what i can tell, the decision to cancel the tunnel bus was broadly unpopular. we'll have to see if it's career ending and if it's a big enough issue to overturn city council, if we can find some candidates willing to put it on the ballot.

i'm hoping that they eventually sell the ambassador bridge to some government, who turns it into a walking bridge.

i'm a five minute walk from the bus station to go under the tunnel, a ten minute bicycle ride from the old bridge (which i've never been on) and at least a 20 minute ride to the new bridge. i don't know exactly how i'm going to access the bridge with a bicycle yet and that will determine the amount of time it takes to get across. then, when i am across, it's a twenty minute ride back to woodward. so, this might end up being an hour detour into town and i might find myself willing to pay to take the bus over, if i had the option, and then bike back around whenever i'm done - at 2:00 am, 4:00 am, 7:00 am, whenever.

i will not have to wait for the tunnel bus at the diner anymore, which often added an extra $10 to the trip, on it's own, and forced me to plan for overnight parties, even if i wasn't totally into them.

if they turn the old bridge into a pedestrian link, it will cut 10-15 minutes of bicycling, in either direction. 

i may eventually just move closer to the new bridge, and i tried to do that last fall, but i wasn't able to find the kind of place i wanted to, and moved downtown instead. i like the new place. there's some issues but i hope they work out. if they don't, i'll have to see if i can maybe even buy a small house near the bridge.

unfortunately, i don't think i currently have the choice to pay $5 to bring my bike across from downtown and then bike around the long way to get home, like i used to. the city took that away. i would hope it's a ballot issue in the next city election.

i can come up with a million better ways to save money than cutting the tunnel bus. the city just wasted millions of dollars on a useless skating rink, and wastes millions of dollars every year on stupid christmas lights. these are things that could and should be cut in order to bring back the tunnel bus, which was a major benefit to living here that is far more valuable than stupid christmas lights.

https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/tolls-for-new-detroit-windsor-bridge-to-be-cheaper-than-ambassador-tunnel/

this is deeply undemocratic, and consistent with the government's broad behaviour, including it's foreign policy. this government has demonstrated a broad level of contempt for the concept of democracy, both at home and abroad.

it's up to voters in toronto to make sure that the liberals lose these elections.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-idlout-majority-poilievre-ndp-analysis-9.7124771