Windsor Star

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:58:13 +0000
Spitfires reunite old friends with latest signing while Knights announced as season's first opponent
Old friends will reunite with the Windsor Spitfires.  Two years ago, the Spitfires took Ethan Garden in the ninth round of the OHL Draft and he has been a fixture in the lineup since Day 1.  One round earlier, the Spitfires selected Garden’s Li...

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:23:53 +0000
Windsor council shuts down public debate, defers women's shelter funding request
Councillor asked colleagues for $192,000 in one-time emergency funding for Welcome Centre Shelter for Women and Families.

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:10:04 +0000
City needs fair assessment of Jackson Park Bandshell
April 25, the Star’s Trevor Wilhelm reported on the Emancipation Celebration Monument Committee’s successful campaign to get Windsor city council to fund over $400,000 for a project in Jackson Park to commemorate the historic public events that e...

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:05:42 +0000
Stop kowtowing to Albertans's costly demands
I am growing tired of the Alberta movement to separate from Canada.  I have yet to hear a valid reason for this. Much like the Trump followers in the U.S., they are a bunch of whining, mostly uneducated troublemakers.  I am also tired of my tax dol...

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:49:36 +0000
Lydia's law would have helped survivors of sexual assault
(Editor’s note: All Progressive Conservatives present in the legislature voted against the private member’s bill.) On May 28, MPP Andrew Dowie voted against Lydia’s Law at second reading. I am deeply disappointed by that decision becaus...

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:41:19 +0000
Demotion not sufficient for officer's sexual harassment
Demotion not sufficient for officer’s sexual harassment Re: Cop gets demotion, not firing, on criminal case, May 28, 2026 When a police officer pleads guilty to sexually harassing a colleague,  the expected outcome is termination, not a demoti...

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:22:22 +0000
Gene editing: The birth of the designer child
The completion of the Human Genome Project at the turn of the millennium was often described as the moment humanity finally read its own instruction manual.

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:07:06 +0000
Spitfires bring three new prospects into the fold in OHL Under-18 Draft
It’s more an investment in the future and not so much the present.  That’s what the Windsor Spitfires have found in the OHL’s Under-18 Draft and the club hopes there might be more help somewhere down the road after making three selecti...

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:16:48 +0000
Unconscious driver, collisions, police pursuit: Windsor police charge four impaired drivers
When attempts to wake the driver failed, an officer broke a window and physically roused the person.

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:08:28 +0000
Mayor raises flooding concerns with Essex development plan
'It is a flood zone. We cannot fool ourselves,' Mayor Sherry Bondy says

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