US-Canada bridge opens in Detroit even as trade disputes test the neighbours’ ties

A major new bridge linking Canada and the United States at Detroit, Michigan opened on Monday to lorries, cars and other vehicles, the climax of a years-long project that lately had been bruised a bit by international politics.
Descendants of Gordie Howe, the hockey legend whose name is on the bridge, were among the first to cross over the Detroit River, which separates Detroit from Windsor, Ontario.
The span, which was built by Canada at a cost of C$6.4 billion (US$4.5 billion), now becomes a...