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Fri, 17 Sep 2021 01:41:24 +0000
Windsor city council approves new mandatory vaccine policy for municipal employees
Windsor city council approved a controversial mandatory vaccine policy for all municipal workers Thursday night, despite opposition from a string of employee representatives. “We’re still in crisis mode,” Ward 1 Coun. Fred Francis said during a...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:46:51 +0000
Windsor knifepoint robbery suspect arrested
Windsor police have arrested a man accused of robbing a city convenience store at knifepoint on Monday night. Police on Thursday announced they’d identified and arrested the suspect as a direct result of a media release containing the suspect&#...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 23:44:00 +0000
DWBIA responds to notice of COVID-19 exposure at Downtown Windsor Farmers' Market
The downtown Farmers' Market is still "one of the safest events in the region," and will continue, says the Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association.

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:37:04 +0000
Ward 10 parks set for $1.1 million in trail upgrades
Parks in Windsor’s Ward 10 will get over $1 million in upgrades to walking trails, creating a 2.4-kilometre walking and biking loop in the Remington Park neighbourhood, city officials announced Thursday.  Windsor mayor Drew Dilkens, Ward 10 Coun. ...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:27:48 +0000
Masse pushes for Ojibway National Urban Park; will table legislation if re-elected
Windsor West federal NDP candidate and longtime MP Brian Masse renewed his call for the federal government to transfer Ojibway Shores to Parks Canada and establish a national urban park, protecting the land from any future development. “It’s crit...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:33:12 +0000
Lancers ready to return to football field and tackle the challenges of this OUA season
It has been nearly two years since the University of Windsor Lancers have played an OUA football game. So, a chance to hit the field on Saturday for the season opener in Waterloo against the Warriors is cause for celebration. “There’s just excite...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:25:29 +0000
DuroByte successfully pivots form service provider to manufacturer
The desperation created by the COVID-19 pandemic has been the inspiration for a remarkable transformation of Windsor’s DuroByte. What was once an automation services company with an 85 per cent U.S. customer base has become a robotics and automatio...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:30:40 +0000
Retiring City Engineer Mark Winterton leaves legacy of hundreds of Windsor projects
For virtually everything the City of Windsor built, rejuvenated or replaced in recent memory — hundreds upon hundreds of projects, from widened Cabana Road to the new city hall and WFCU Centre — Mark Winterton has been lead dog. “It’s...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:23:54 +0000
Local COVID rate has dropped, remains high — health unit
The COVID-19 situation in Windsor-Essex may be taking a turn for the better. Data presented by the local health unit on Thursday showed multiple pandemic indicators have improved this week over last. However, officials warned the region isn’t o...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:05:09 +0000
Ten local schools erroneously added to provincial COVID case list
A provincial webpage listing Ontario schools with COVID-19 cases has erroneously named multiple Windsor-Essex schools without known infections. The Ministry of Education, which collects its in-school COVID-19 data from school boards every weekday, on...



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