The first new road crossing to Windsor since 1929 opened this year. It is publicly owned, it was paid for by another country, and it arrived a year late to very little fanfare.
Most of them arrived on 1 January without anybody announcing it to you. Two put money in your pocket, one takes it back out, and one exists because of a ticket queue.
A hospital, two schools, an office block and a 1,600-seat theater. The permit register is a duller document than a press release and a far more reliable one.
Steve Yzerman is gone, the captain has asked to be traded, and the man currently running hockey operations is not allowed to make a trade or sign anybody.