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Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:21:13 +0000
'The pandemic is still not over,' cautions Windsor-Essex top doc
COVID-19 numbers are dropping in Windsor-Essex, and Ontario will enter 'Step 1' of its reopening plan slightly early. But Dr. Wajid Ahmed is urging the public not to rush back to normal.

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:15:52 +0000
Council endorses Masse's call for feds to save Ojibway Shores, create national urban park
City council is unanimously backing MP Brian Masse’s campaign to save Ojibway Shores and make it part of a new national urban park. “It’s just terrific to have their support,” an excited Masse (NDP — Windsor West) said Monda...

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:11:19 +0000
Jarvis: The pandemic's complicated grief
My mother died one year ago today. We haven’t had a funeral yet. She died during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Funerals were limited to 10 people. We wanted all of Mum’s family to be able to gather to remember her. So we waited...

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:10:50 +0000
Walkerville listed among "coolest neighbourhoods" in North America
Maybe they should rename it Coolville. Windsor’s historic and trendy Walkerville district is rubbing shoulders with Montreal, San Francisco and Chicago in an online rating of cool neighborhoods in North America. A travel photo gallery published Fri...

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:04:43 +0000
Dilkens pushes for help in Ottawa on getting U.S. vaccines
Mayor Drew Dilkens criticized the federal government during a committee meeting on Monday for its lack of support in helping to get surplus COVID-19 vaccines in Michigan transported into Windsor and into the arms of area residents. Dilkens made a bri...

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 23:57:44 +0000
Council endorses adding auxiliary police to prevent further Sand Point Beach drownings
After a weekend when Sand Point Beach was packed with swimmers, some swimming in the restricted area where a 24-year-old-man drowned two weeks ago, council is seeking enforcement help from Windsor Police. Councillors agreed Monday that until lifeguar...

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:57:16 +0000
Mennonite churches across region continue defiance of provincial COVID-19 rules
Chatham-Kent police charged Old Colony Mennonite Church on Wheatley Road for having more than 100 people indoors on Sunday — repeating charges that were laid last weekend and the weekend before that.

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:22:33 +0000
Bicycle pursuit, brief struggle, ends in arrest for man charged with pointing a firearm
A Windsor man is facing several charges after he allegedly pointed a cap gun at someone then tried to flee from police on a bicycle. Windsor police received a call around 10:15 p.m. Saturday about a person with a gun near the Ford Test Track in the 3...

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:22:03 +0000
Windsor's Nutricorp plant producing millions of Vitamin A capsules for $29.5-million federal program
While much of the focus in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic has been domestic, Nutricorp’s Windsor operations are producing millions of soft gel Vitamin A capsules that will help bolster the immune systems of 35 million African children aga...

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 20:27:58 +0000
Windsor police probe suspicious fire on Wyandotte Street East
Windsor police are looking for tips and surveillance footage after a “suspicious” blaze Sunday in the Walkerville area. Police said the fire caused minor damage to a vacant business in the 1200 block of Wyandotte Street East. The fire had already...



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