from here, in windsor, ontario. the border between canada and the united states runs right down the middle of the detroit river behind me. this is the busiest crossing between canada and the u.s. by far. it's this close proximity that makes it easy to understand how windsor piggybacked on the rise of detroit in the 20th century. this is a tale of two cities, absolutely, but it is an incredibly one-sided relationship and that can never be healthy. everything that is happening over there in big detroit is also happening here in windsor, whether they like it or not. they don't have the same massive racial inequality that they do in detroit. they have the canadian social system to help take care of the citizens who are struggling here. but windsor is at a loss. it's as though they're trying to figure out what they are. because you see, since the early 2000s, as the auto industry struggled, the province of ontario has lost something like 300,000 jobs in the manufacturing sector. and no region has been harder hit than win