Economy
Life Inside the Broken City
The artist collective Broken City Lab is working to re-engage citizens in the struggling city of Windsor, Ontario.
Much like its cross-border counterpart Detroit, the city of Windsor, Ontario, is having a tough time. In the wake of so much turmoil in the auto industry, the city's been left with the highest rate of unemployment in Canada, 9.9 percent in May. It's especially bad in a country that has otherwise weathered the economic downturn on the whole a bit better than its neighbor to the south.
With a population just over 200,000, Windsor represents a smaller scale version of the economic decline seen in Detroit. But unlike Detroit, which still commands some semblance of national pride for its rich history, Windsor is fast becoming the city that Canada is ready to forget about.