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Tue, 25 May 2021 00:31:30 +0000
Photo: Outdoor splashpads reopen just in time to provide fun heat relief

Tue, 25 May 2021 00:04:59 +0000
UWindsor student wins national women's entrepreneurial leadership award
University of Windsor student Natalie Suzor’s local work with marginalized women has earned her national recognition with an HSBC Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Award from Enactus Canada. Suzor has been involved with the Liberty Project since...

Mon, 24 May 2021 23:26:30 +0000
Legislation to protect Detroit River from spills stalled by committee
Arguing business interests had not yet been given sufficient say, a Detroit city council committee on Monday decided to delay moving ahead with new legislation designed to put safeguards in place to protect against future shoreline collapse or indust...

Mon, 24 May 2021 22:00:17 +0000
UWindsor guarantees multi-year tuition rates for international students
Steep tuition hikes for post-secondary international students in Canada have taken on all the assuredness of death and taxes. In an effort to combat the annual sticker shock that confronts the nearly 3,600 international students enrolled at the Unive...

Mon, 24 May 2021 21:54:36 +0000
County gives go-ahead for major push on increasing energy efficiency
Essex County council has given a thumbs-up to a regional energy plan aimed at addressing climate change issues and reducing the local cost and consumption of energy. The plan, which calls for an increase in community-wide energy efficiency of at leas...

Mon, 24 May 2021 21:04:22 +0000
Transit Windsor service for Amherstburg moves closer to reality
Amherstburg Mayor Aldo DiCarlo remembers as a 12-year-old in the 1970s riding the original bus service connecting his town to Windsor. That was the Sandwich, Windsor & Amherstburg Railway, which began in the 1880s as a streetcar service between t...

Mon, 24 May 2021 12:57:45 +0000
Former Spitfire Wellwood opts not to return as head coach of Firebirds
Oldcastle native and former Windsor Spitfires’ forward Eric Wellwood played a big role in getting the Flint Firebirds back on track. The 31-year-old Wellwood, who became the winningest coach in team history in less than two seasons as head coach, a...

Mon, 24 May 2021 10:05:42 +0000
Reader letter: Beacon project sets dangerous precedent
Re: City moves to change bylaw limiting riverfront building height, in order to get Celestial Beacon built, by Brian Cross, April 27 Reading this article brought back the old adage If you make the rules you can bend the rules. When it looks like you ...

Sun, 23 May 2021 19:37:48 +0000
Kayakers rescued by police after capsizing in Detroit River
The Windsor Police Service’s marine unit had to come to the aid of two kayakers in distress Sunday after they capsized on the Detroit River. The incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. in an area of the river not far from the Windsor Yacht Club. Po...

Sun, 23 May 2021 14:11:19 +0000
Police continue search for missing swimmer at Sand Point Beach
Marine units with the Windsor Police Service, Ontario Provincial Police and the RCMP continued to search on Monday for a young man presumed to have drowned after disappearing in the water at Sand Point Beach late on Saturday afternoon. Police were ca...



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