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Wed, 06 Jan 2021 01:26:16 +0000
American company purchases Families First funeral home
Families First, one of the last family-owned funeral homes in Windsor, has been sold by founders Brian and Mary-Lynn Parent to Service Corporation International, an American provider of funeral goods and services. “The big decision for us is that I...

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:41:08 +0000
Destroyed factory to morph into 81-unit residential apartment
An 81-unit apartment building is being planned for a historic Walkerville industrial site where everything but the brick facade of the front office building was destroyed in a ferocious 2018 fire. “The residents are really looking forward to so...

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:29:23 +0000
Anti-racists cry foul over possible dissolution of U of Windsor department
A University of Windsor group advocating against anti-Black racism on campus says school administration plans to dissolve the department of sociology, anthropology and criminology. Researchers, Academics & Advocates of Color for Equity in Solidar...

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:25:47 +0000
Jarvis: 'Outside the box folks. Let's get going!'
Twenty-one residents and one employee in long-term care and retirement homes here have died from COVID-19 in the last seven days. A total of 16 deaths were reported here Monday, the deadliest day in the pandemic. Fourteen of those people were from lo...

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:14:24 +0000
Start of new year brings more COVID-19 tragedy to Windsor long-term care home
As of Tuesday, there have been 34 COVID-19 deaths at The Village at St. Clair — nine of them reported from Dec. 30 to Jan. 4. The total case count at the long-term care site is now 245, combining residents and staff.

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 23:47:55 +0000
Family mourns Windsor couple who died within days of each other from COVID-19
Richard Reeves, 75, of Windsor, died from COVID-19 on Dec. 20 — just two days after his wife Lynda Reeves, 73, succumbed to the disease.

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 23:19:27 +0000
COVID-19 outbreak declared at Windsor Police Service
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit has declared a COVID-19 outbreak within the Windsor Police Service. The outbreak was declared on Monday, according to a news release from Windsor police on Tuesday afternoon. The outbreak is confined to a single a...

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 23:17:14 +0000
Unifor blockades Windsor Assembly Plant
Unifor Local 444 members erected a blockade at the Windsor Assembly Plant Tuesday morning in a dispute centred on the future of 60 employees after FCA Canada awarded a contract to Motipark. The 60 employees, who had been employed by Auto Warehouse Co...

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 23:09:10 +0000
Lions looking for head coach to work as a partner with general manager
The Detroit Lions are taking a different path in the club’s current search for a new head coach and general manager. The New England way experiment was declared a failure when the Lions fires general manager Bob Quinn and head coach Matt Patricia i...

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 23:05:20 +0000
49ers retain Shepley by inking Windsor lineman to reserve/futures deal
Windsor’s Dakoda Shepley was among 13 players signed to a reserve/futures contract by the San Francisco 49ers. The 26-year-old Shepley, who attended Holy Names high school, signed with the 49ers late in training camp and spent much of the season on...



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