Windsor Star
CITY SLASHES BUILD FEES
In pursuit of nearly $50 million in grants from senior governments, Windsor is prepared to slash the fees it charges developers by 70 per cent. On Wednesday, city council voted unanimously to submit an “aggressive” application for funding from the...
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SUMMER KICKOFF
Members of Windsor city council, administration and other local dignitaries attend a news conference to outline the Experience Windsor summer event schedule. Full coverage on
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HAVIN' A BALL!
Super soccer fan Yvonne Underwood is shown at her Windsor home sprucing up the decor on Monday. Underwood has decked out her home to celebrate the Canada-u.s.-mexico World Cup.
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RED & WHITE IN FLIGHT
Soccer fan Nico Testani shows his support for Canada at the Sandwich Town BIA FIFA World Cup watch party on Friday at the Dominion House Tavern in Windsor. Canada and Bosnia and Herzegovina played to a 1-1 draw. Qatar and Switzerland also tied 1-1 so...
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HIGHLAND FLING
Henry Heaton heaves a weight in preparation for the Kingsville Highland Games, which return to the area after a one-year break. Colasanti's Tropical Gardens will host the even on June 27.
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BRIDGE FETE POSTPONED
Plans to open the Gordie Howe International Bridge have been postponed just days after Prime Minister Mark Carney said the crossing linking Ontario and Michigan would open by the end of this week. The Crown corporation overseeing the $6.4-billion...
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Municipalities eye infrastructure funds
Windsor-essex municipalities are scrambling to determine by June 19 whether they are eligible for millions of dollars in funding for infrastructure projects to support new housing, providing they cut costs for developers by up to 50 per...
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Windsor's Art in the Park drew as many as 40,000
Tens of thousands took advantage of the warm and sunny weather to peruse art, homemade crafts and artisan food on the leafy grounds of Willistead Park on Saturday. The annual Windsor-favourite Art in the Park was on track to reach 35,000 to 40,000...
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DON'T CALL IT BOURBON
As American bourbon disappeared from liquor store shelves at the onset of Canada's tariff wars with the U.S., a steady stream of customers began pressing Wolfhead Distillery for a local alternative. Visitors to the retail shop, nestled in Amherstburg,...
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Public invited to help chart future of Sand Point Beach
Ward 7 Coun. Angelo Marignani hopes residents will voice their opinions on the future of Sand Point Beach when the matter is taken up by city council later this month. If done right, the improvements made to the beach that will be voted on by city...
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PIPING IN THE FUTURE
More than 3,000 students received diplomas and degrees during St. Clair College's spring convocation ceremonies this week. With two ceremonies held Tuesday at the WFCU Centre in Windsor, followed by two more Wednesday, graduates from programs across...
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Downtown Windsor councillor touts `lots of ideas' for former bus depot
Downtown Windsor Coun. Renaldo Agostino has big ideas for the former Greyhound bus depot after the University of Windsor recently returned the property over maintenance costs. “I'm certainly happy to have it back and have lots and lots of ideas on...
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Tick migration boosts risk of Lyme disease: health unit
With the tick population migrating — and growing — throughout the Windsor region there is an increased risk of Lyme disease, even within the city, warn health officials as the warm weather takes hold. A tick surveillance team was out Friday for the...
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BANKING ON CAPACITY
Unifor officials say they see opportunities to increase Canadian jobs after Stellantis officials visited the Windsor Assembly Plant Thursday. As part of a five-year strategy, the automaker plans to refresh 12 existing North American products and...
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LEARNING IS FUN
Justice Borges, a Grade 8 student at Eastview Horizon Public School, participates in a virtual race at the Black Joy, Black Excellence Student Symposium on Tuesday at the St. Clair College main campus.
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Province has final OK on Diageo funding use
The Town of Amherstburg will need provincial approval before it can access or direct funding as part of a settlement tied to the closure of its Crown Royal bottling plant. Mayor Michael Prue told council Monday night the Ontario government will have...
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Theft leaves respite centre feeling `violated'
Staff at an Essex respite centre for adults with intellectual delays are reeling following the theft of recreational equipment, food and other items from a program that teaches life skills and offers a happy, safe and inclusive environment. Thieves...
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SIU investigates after man shot by police dies
A 35-year-old man shot by Windsor police Friday evening has died in hospital, according to Ontario's Special Investigations Unit. Officers were called to the 6700 block of Roseville Garden Drive around 6:30 p.m. for reports of an altercation near...
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SPARKING INSPIRATION
Abigail Hopkins, a L'essor Secondary School student, left, tries her hand at welding alongside St. Clair College millwright student Abbey Drouillard at the third annual Jill of All Trades event. The program, hosted by St. Clair, aims to boost enrolment...
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BERTRAND SENTENCED
A Windsor man who, as a teenager, tried to join a neo-nazi group and pledged to support its terrorist activities has been sentenced to nine months in jail. Seth Bertrand, now 23, “was entrenched in the ideology of a `white ethnostate,' ” when he...
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AN EYE ON THE STORM
London was continuing to clean up on Wednesday after powerful storms swept through the city and region, downing trees and cutting power to a swath of the city's east end. As of 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to London Hydro, more than 1,300 customers...
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CONSTRUCTION SEASON IS ON
Two of Windsor's oldest neighbourhoods — and one of its fastest-growing — are receiving nearly $5 million in road rehab and repair this construction season. Like much of the city, the wards containing Old Riverside, Ford City, and Forest Glade will be...
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Sikh community celebrates Khalsa Day
Thousands gathered at Windsor's Festival Plaza for a vibrant Khalsa Day celebration to mark the Sikh New Year on Sunday. Sunny weather welcomed hundreds of attendees from Windsor's Sikh community who walked barefoot along Riverside Drive with the...
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RESTORING REPUTATION
James Braakman, president of the Windsor-essex Bike Community, stands near a sign defaced with graffiti at the Black Oak Heritage Park. The cycling group has denied any involvement in the vandalism and is pushing back against what it calls repeated...
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HAVING FUN IN THE SUN
Ethan Wei, 2, was having a ball at the Mic Mac Park in Windsor on a sunny Thursday. Windsor and Essex County can bask in the sun in the coming days as the region is set for a run of warm weather. The daytime highs for the region should climb to 26 C on...
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Atlas Tube offers signing bonus to recruit trades
Facing growing competition for skilled trades talent, Harrow-based steel tube manufacturer Atlas Tube is sweetening the deal with a $10,000 signing bonus. The incentive is aimed at attracting workers for hard-to-fill positions such as millwrights,...
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READY TO PLAY BALL
Mayor Drew Dilkens threw the ceremonial first pitch at an event to celebrate the completion of upgrades to the Father Cullen Baseball Stadium, which was selected last spring for a $150,000 grant from the Toronto Blue Jays to support refurbishment of...
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Windsor's birthday party features cupcake social
Windsorites from all walks of life came together Saturday to celebrate the city's 134th birthday at City Hall Square with a lively, family-friendly gathering. The big lineups — and they were long — were for free hotdogs, Tim Hortons coffee and...
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DEVASTATING TREND
Staff members at Hotel-dieu Grace Healthcare's Toldo Neurobehavioural Institute put fresh bedding in a unit. Thousands of people have been involuntarily hospitalized for mental health reasons over the last few years in Windsor-essex, where it happens...
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Sandwich Town makes pitch to draw U.S. visitors
As anticipation builds around the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, Sandwich Town leaders are trying to position Windsor's oldest neighbourhood as a first stop for American cyclists and pedestrians crossing into Canada. The Sandwich...
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Move away from volunteers begins
The Municipality of Lakeshore's Fire Service is converting 10 unfilled volunteer positions to two full-time positions with the intention of eventually moving away from a fully volunteer department. The move, which is intended to provide more...
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New $6B federal plan could grow skilled trades training in region
A new federal plan to train thousands of skilled trades workers could deliver more training capacity, apprenticeships and jobs for Windsor-essex, as Ottawa looks to address labour shortages and accelerate construction across the country. Outlined in...
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CULTURAL CELEBRATION
D.J. White, a traditional dancer from Walpole Island First Nation, took part in the fifth annual Alumni and Student Pow Wow co-hosted by the University of Windsor and St. Clair College on Saturday, which celebrates Indigenous culture and creates space...
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`YOU CAN'T STOP AND IT WON'T STOP'
The North Pacific waves soared higher than buildings. Punishing squalls hammered the boat. And at the helm stood Windsor's Sarah Jane Robinson — with zero sailing experience. This was her introduction to the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, which...
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HITTING THE ROAD
Const. Adam Mceachern of the York Regional Police kicks off of his Autism Heroes Road Trip at the Windsor Police downtown headquarters on Thursday. Mceachern's journey, which aims to raise awareness and support for neurodiverse children and their...
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FIRE GUTS BUSINESS
Windsor Fire and Rescue investigators examine the scene where a fire destroyed a building in the 700 block of Wyandotte Street East on Wednesday. The fire started around 1:30 a.m. and was put out just before 9 a.m.
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GET READY TO GARDEN
Calling all gardeners itching to dig in the soil, soak up some sunshine and plant some new blooms. It's time for Windsor's annual spring perennial plant sale and fundraiser at the city's Jackson Park greenhouse complex, being held Saturday. The...
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Windsor MP urges Ottawa to act fast on tariff relief
With local industrial jobs and livelihoods on the line, a Windsor member of Parliament who heard horror stories of punishing new tariffs being imposed by the Trump administration is urging immediate federal help. “They can't pay these bills,” MP Kathy...
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NO OPENING DATE SET
Officials running the Gordie Howe International Bridge say they have not set a grand opening date, despite Premier Doug Ford's declaration this week that he will soon attend the long-delayed event. “The project team is progressing well toward opening...
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Jewish community lies low amid rising antisemitic hate
With antisemitism back on the rise — including hatred continuing to be spread widely across what is still the wild west of the internet — Windsor's Jewish community is lying low and living carefully guarded lives. “This is not the way it should be,”...
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Local mould makers meet MPS to ask for tariff relief
An emergency meeting of MPS in Ottawa on Monday was warned that industrial parts manufacturers in the Windsor area, representing an important part of the local economy, could shut down or be forced to move across the border under punishing new U.S....
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`No. 1 call of all time': Baby delivered in ambulance just blocks from hospital
A Windsor mother's race to the maternity ward ended just short of the destination when her baby was delivered in the back of an ambulance forced to park just a few hundred yards from the hospital. Two crews from Essex-windsor Emergency Medical...
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Duff-baby House ready to reopen
Windsor's oldest home is ready to show off its fresh face following more than two years of renovations. Restoration work on the Duff-baby House in Windsor's Sandwich Town is complete, and the historic building will soon reopen to the public, leaders...
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Repair costs forcing sale of 53 affordable homes
More than 50 Essex Non-profit Homes tenants face possible displacement — and the risk of homelessness — as the potential sale of several housing units in the Town of Essex has put their homes in jeopardy. “It's really terrifying,” said Kim Mcmullin,...
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Kilt-wearing booster of arts in Windsor named Canada's `Scot of the Year'
Philip Mcleod might describe himself humbly as a “behind the scenes” kind of guy, but the Windsor man now holds the title of Canada's Scot of the Year. The honour, bestowed at a Tartan Day parade and ceremony at Willistead Manor on Saturday, is...
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Crew clears downtown homeless encampment
The City of Windsor has cleared out a long-standing downtown homeless encampment — along with mountains of trash — after residents endured years of fires, drug use, and safety concerns next to their backyards. Ward 3 Coun. Renaldo Agostino told the...
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Ambassador loses top spot as busiest trade link to U.S.
The Ambassador Bridge's long reign as the busiest Canada-u.s. trade crossing has come to an end. The Blue Water Bridge in Sarnia saw roughly 274,000 more commercial trucks than the Windsor border crossing last year, representing a major change in the...
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REEL-EY KEEN TO FISH
A bundled up angler casts off at Reaume Park on Tuesday. The mercury dropped to -5 C in the morning, according to Environment Canada, but did not beat the record of -10 C set in 1868. Temperatures are forecast to rebound with a high of 20 C predicted...
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`Loud explosions' resulted in seven-hour standoff
Windsor police continued to investigate Monday after a seven-hour standoff in South Walkerville, in which one man was arrested following reports of explosions. Multiple emergency personnel and vehicles — including a mobile command unit, a tactical...
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READY TO ROAR
Bats cracked, pints clinked, and Detroit roared. The Motor City's biggest annual party returned Friday as hordes of Major League Baseball fans packed downtown Detroit ahead of the sold-out Tigers season home opener at Comerica Park. Adding to the...
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A STEP FORWARD
A deer runs through Ojibway Park in Windsor on Wednesday. Windsor city council voted unanimously during an in-camera session on Monday to move forward with an agreement in principle with Parks Canada, inching the needle closer to the establishment of...
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'A GEM IN OUR CITY'
Marshall Grellette was one of many golfers enjoying opening day at the Roseland Golf Club on Monday. The city-owned course is celebrating its 100th year in operation.
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`THE PLACE WAS GUTTED'
Donald Otagho, owner of the Edo Heritage Plaza at 366 Wyandotte Street W., checks out fire damage to the Palmyra Supermarket and Restaurant on Monday. A blaze ripped through the commercial plaza, causing an estimated $1 million in damages.
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ROAD TO RECOVERY
Lynnette Bain, executive director of the Windsor/essex Humane Society, holds an injured dog that was dropped off outside of the organization's office suffering from a broken femur. The shelter shared the dog's story on social media in an effort to...
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Chamber of Commerce celebrates 150 years
A document dated March 27, 1876, containing the signatures of 34 Windsor businessmen hangs on a wall inside the Windsor-essex Chamber of Commerce's downtown office. It offers a rare glimpse into the region's earliest business community. Each name is...
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ALL FIRED UP
City of Windsor employee Chris Hart strides purposefully through the flames during a prescribed burn at Black Oak Heritage Park on Tuesday. The burn — as well as one planned for Wednesday at Spring Garden Natural Area, south of Turkey Creek — is...
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Kingsville pauses sewer upgrades amid legal battle
Kingsville will temporarily pause planned sewer infrastructure improvements pending a court challenge from the greenhouse industry. Greenhouse growers, suing Kingsville over its sanitary sewer bylaw, say it unfairly targets the agricultural...
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E.C. ROW CLOSURES BEGIN
Lane reductions and closures on E.C. Row Expressway and County Road 22 are set to be in place this week as the construction of an overpass at Banwell Road continues.
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FISHING FOR FEEDBACK
Canadian officials overseeing the Detroit River cleanup want to designate fish as “not impaired” by river contaminants. To do so, the Detroit River Canadian Cleanup will host an open house later this month to seek feedback on the proposal.
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Police fatally shoot knife-wielding suspect
Windsor police fatally shot a suspect who witnesses say wielded a large knife and backed away from officers for half a block before bullets flew on Wednesday evening. The shooting took place on Rankin Avenue between Wyandotte Street West and...
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Windsor farmers' market getting `bigger and better'
The Downtown Windsor Farmers' Market returns this month with an expanded footprint and a new food hall — upgrades organizers say will make the already popular attraction bigger and better than ever. Located in what will soon be known as Windsor's...
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As Windsor celebrates St. Patrick's Day, a reminder it's not just about green beer
Good luck, green beer, and Reuben egg rolls — the perfect day. One of Windsor's biggest citywide bashes kicked off early Tuesday, with many bars opening long before noon to get things rolling on St. Patrick's Day. “It's definitely one of the biggest...
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CROSSING THE LINE
A Canadian citizen with a criminal record was apprehended by U.S. border officials after crossing the soon-to-be-opened Gordie Howe International Bridge, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says. An official with the border service confirmed to the Star...
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POILIEVRE'S AUTO PUSH
Before crossing the border to meet with auto executives Friday, federal Conservative party Leader Pierre Poilievre previewed his plan in Windsor for a renewed auto pact between Canada and the U.S. he says would be “advantageous” for both nations.
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PROVINCEWIDE PROTEST
Hundreds of Windsor high school students joined thousands of others across Ontario Wednesday in a walkout protesting the provincial government's plan to slash financial aid for post-secondary education. The local students — angry about an overhaul of...
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SUPPORT FROM HOME
Students at Kingsville's St. John de Brebeuf Catholic elementary school cheer on Team Canada at the Paralympic Games in Milan. Goalie Corbin Watson has three children attending the school, who are accompanying him in Italy for the Games.
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Warm spell to fade as cooler weather set to return
Windsor-essex residents enjoyed an early taste of spring this weekend as temperatures soared above seasonal norms — even setting a record high Monday. But what goes up must come down. The area returns to colder weather later this week. “It's...
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Group wants terror label for Khalistan extremists
The Hindu Canadian Foundation is calling on the federal government to label Khalistani extremists as terrorists following the murder of Windsor's Nancy Grewal — an outspoken critic of the groups. “Hindu Canadian Foundation strongly condemns the...
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NEXTGEN FACILITY GETS TARIFF RELIEF
Wayne Long, left, secretary of state responsible for Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions gets a tour of the Nextgen Mold Technologies plant with company president Dennis Goggin on Friday. Long announced a federal government investment of...
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Nextstar celebrates `milestone' opening of $6B battery manufacturing facility
With the company saying it fills a “critical role in powering the nation's next chapter of electrification,” Canada's first large-scale battery manufacturing plant is now officially open for business. Nextstar Energy Inc., a $6-billion factory in...
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THREE DOES ON THE GO
A trio of deer stranded on a floating patch of ice in the middle of the Detroit River on Monday turned heads along Windsor's waterfront, as curious onlookers tracked their downstream journey for hours. By the time the animals were spotted passing in...
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