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Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:57:31 +0000PHOTOS: Car hits light standard on Ojibway Parkway
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:33:34 +0000
New Kingsville vertical urban farm store tilling fresh ground
A dream born in Brazil has taken root in Kingsville with Ortaliza becoming Canada’s first combined production and retail vertical urban farm store. Co-founders Carina Biacchi and her husband Alvaro Fernandes opened the doors to their 25 Main St...
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 01:13:38 +0000
MP Masse introduces bill to give minister power to quash air traffic control studies
MP Brian Masse is asking the Liberal government to please steal the private member’s bill he introduced Tuesday to end the studies that threaten to remove air traffic control from airports in Windsor and six other Canadian cities. “I woul...
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:24:02 +0000
Windsor couple puts faces to current border 'chaos, confusion'
A Windsor family’s recent experience at the Ambassador Bridge is shining a spotlight on what local MP Brian Masse is calling “chaos and confusion” at the border. Masse’s constituency office has been inundated with complaints a...
Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:18:22 +0000
Huron Church Road to undergo lane restrictions during resurfacing
A $4.9 million refurbishing of Huron Church Road between Tecumseh Road West and College Avenue is set to begin in early April. The revamp will include a new smooth surface to a large part of the road and work is expected to be completed by September,...
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 23:53:41 +0000
Easter Seals ambassadors serving an extra year thanks to COVID-19
The Windsor-Essex chapter of Easter Seals Ontario are extending the mandates of their 2020 regional ambassadors through 2021. Alex Bondy, 6, and Brigid Kidd, 15, had limited opportunities to exercise their roles through 2020 due to the COVID-19 pande...
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 23:48:05 +0000
When Spitfires return to play, WFCU Centre would be logical hub option for OHL
Could shots in the arm be replaced by shots on the ice at some point this spring at the WFCU Centre? Lisa MacLeod, who is the provincial Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, said when the Windsor Spitfires and the Ontario Hock...
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 23:46:40 +0000
UWindsor students publish book — without ever meeting one another
Online school has isolated students around the world from their professors and peers, taking away the social aspect of university. But students in the editing and publishing practicum at the University of Windsor managed to form friendships and publi...
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:13:45 +0000
UWindsor gets $540,000 funding for COVID sewage surveillance
University of Windsor researchers testing wastewater for COVID-19 received $540,000 in funding to be part of a provincewide sewage surveillance system. The Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks is coordinating the system. Mike McKay, Execut...
Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:01:55 +0000
Jarvis: Locking down money for the new hospital
It was a quote that got a lot of traction. “I’m going to go in there … like an 800-pound gorilla,” Premier Doug Ford declared in Windsor last August. “I will fight tooth and nail for the hospital down here.” The premier had me...