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Fri, 18 Jun 2021 05:57:45 +0000
Public health partners reveal candidate locations for downtown Windsor safe injection site
The two potential addresses announced for a safe injection site (now called a "consumption and treatment services" facility) are: 101 Wyandotte St. East and 628 Goyeau St.

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 02:05:47 +0000
New UWindsor law dean first Arab woman and first Palestinian to hold the position in Canada
Reem Bahdi is an innovator and visionary who came to Canada with her family as a refugee. Soon she’ll own a piece of Canadian history with her appointment as the new dean for the embattled law faculty at the University of Windsor. When she official...

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 01:56:15 +0000
Governments contribute towards new downtown media arts centre
As part of the announcement of opening a new local film and digital media centre downtown, the Canadian and Ontario governments announced Thursday it will invest $2.9 million into the project. The federal government is contributing over $1.1 million ...

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 01:54:35 +0000
Swimmers protest threatened closure of Adie Knox pool
On the same day a crowd of swimmers loyal to the Adie Knox pool held a protest demanding it not be closed, results of a City of Windsor survey showed that 60.5 per cent of respondents are interested in swimming at its proposed University of Windsor r...

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 01:07:29 +0000
St. Clair College graduated 5,000 students virtually on Thursday
St. Clair College held its third virtual convocation on Thursday with more than 5,000 students graduating during eight sessions. Graduating classes represented were Academic Studies Chatham, Community Studies, Engineering Technologies, Apprenticeship...

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:56:10 +0000
Health unit reports seven new COVID cases
Thursdays local COVID-19 statistics show seven new cases for a total of 16,753 reported by the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit. Four of he new cases came from close contacts, one was acquired in the community, on was travel related and one remains u...

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:48:31 +0000
Jarvis: The rant heard round the region
As if we need more doubt and confusion about COVID-19 vaccines. Canada is receiving 7.1 million doses of the Moderna vaccine this week, and this region’s share could be tens of thousands of shots. But the majority of people here received the Pf...

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 23:56:22 +0000
Reconstruction will strike Lauzon Parkway from 'worst roads' list, mayor says
Bumpy Lauzon Parkway, which the CAA ranked the No. 2 “worst road” in Southwestern Ontario for 2021, is undergoing a major rebuild. “I want to tell you … to scratch Lauzon Parkway off that list,” Mayor Drew Dilkens said T...

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 23:41:41 +0000
Windsor woman steals large truck, collides with LaSalle police vehicle
LaSalle police acknowledged that the large size of the stolen truck made stopping it "dangerous and challenging." The adult female suspect was finally arrested after she drove into a dead end.

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 23:40:08 +0000
Windsor professor nominated for United Nations committee
University of Windsor associate professor Laverne Jacobs, chosen as a candidate for the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, has made history as the first person Canada has put forward as a nominee. Jacobs, an associat...



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