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Thu, 29 Jul 2021 01:16:45 +0000
City council moves ahead with $1.8 million in upgrades to three parks
City council is moving ahead with more than $1.8 million in upgrades to three parks on Windsor’s east side. The projects include a new splash pad at Fontainebleau Park, washrooms at Elizabeth Kishkon Park and new pickleball and tennis courts at For...

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:20:06 +0000
City incentives, 'red-hot' real estate market fuel action on brownfields
A city program created in 2010 to entice investors to build on contaminated old industrial sites has been blazingly successful in the last 18 months. In its first six years, uptake on the Brownfield Redevelopment Community Improvement Plan was tepid ...

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:16:01 +0000
Jarvis: There will be a fourth wave if more people don't get vaccinated
“There is virtually zero chance we’re going to be able to avoid a fourth wave if our vaccination rates stall where they are right now,” Windsor Regional Hospital chief of staff Dr. Wassim Saad warned Wednesday. It doesn’t get ...

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:08:36 +0000
Edison Financial welcomes staff into downtown offices after pandemic-year growth
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Windsor-based online mortgage firm Edison Financial had just launched with about 10 employees. More than a year later, the company has grown to around 70 employees, many of whom will come into the firm’s d...

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 23:37:43 +0000
Reopened border tunnel to greet visitors with higher tolls
When American travellers are welcomed back to Canada at the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel in less than two weeks, they’ll also be greeted by higher crossing tolls. The increase on the Windsor side for those driving passenger vehicles and with Canadian...

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 23:27:27 +0000
Architect Grossi recognized for design and function of John Muir library branch
Windsor architect Jason Grossi’s design work on the John Muir Branch of the Windsor Public Library has earned him a Library Architectural and Design Transformation Award from the Ontario Library Association. One of three libraries to received the r...

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 23:21:33 +0000
Sand Point Beach closed due to high bacteria levels
Sand Point Beach is closed and three other Essex County beaches have been deemed unsafe for swimming after the discovery of dangerously high bacteria levels in the water. Along with closing Sand Point, the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit issued a ...

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 23:19:23 +0000
Windsor's most iconic food? Pizza, of course
There should be no surprise Windsorities have selected pizza as this area’s most iconic food in a recent online survey conducted by WindsorEats. But after that, the top results were interesting and reflected the wide variety of food and drink prefe...

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 22:07:46 +0000
Windsor-Essex medical leaders urge final push as local vaccination rate stalls
"Now is the time," the letter advises those who have yet to be vaccinated — warning of the potential for COVID-19 variants to bring a fourth wave later this year.

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 20:01:55 +0000
Three-time Olympian Bishop-Nriagu has garnered all the tools to make this her time to shine at Tokyo Games
Melissa Bishop-Nriagu looks back on the 2012 version of herself with a smile. “In 2012, on this scene, I was just a baby to this world,” the 32-year-old Bishop-Nriagu said. For the Canadian record holder in the women’s 800 metres, the journey t...



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