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Traffic ticket blitz

Traffic ticket blitz

🕔12:51, 30.Sep 2016

  The City of Windsor has recently implemented a new zero tolerance policy for the violation of stopping and parking bylaws in every school area in Windsor, starting with giving out 35 tickets at Vincent Massey Secondary School. This crackdown

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Stabbing update

🕔12:46, 30.Sep 2016

An 83-year-old woman was stabbed in the face multiple times by an alleged male attacker in the 1300 block of Ottawa St. shortly before 11 a.m. on Wed, Sept 28. “I saw the blood, and then they cleaned it all

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Tattooed and employable?

🕔12:34, 22.Apr 2016

In an unscientific survey, five per cent of respondents said they have lost or been denied a job because of their tattoos. The survey was conducted for the MediaPlex to gather information on people who have tattoos, why they got

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Small businesses are huge for Windsor

Small businesses are huge for Windsor

🕔11:53, 8.Apr 2016

  By Alyssa Horrobin Windsor is home to thousands of entrepreneurs trying to make a living in a city with chronically high unemployment in Canada. The City Market in Windsor currently houses about 20 of the 20,000 small businesses in

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Patio fees

🕔09:35, 11.Mar 2016

Local businesses with sidewalk cafés will need to make an adjustment to their budget this year if they plan on keeping them open. City Council reached a decision on March 7, they hope will work for business owners as well

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Furniture bank

Furniture bank

🕔13:47, 4.Mar 2016

By Alyssa Horrobin Windsorites are collecting furniture for a furniture bank project to help Syrian refugees settling into their new homes. The furniture bank is a project of the We Love Windsor organization, a group of churches in Windsor wanting

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Baby it’s cold outside

Baby it’s cold outside

🕔11:53, 26.Feb 2016

By Alyssa Horrobin On Feb. 20, about 300 people took part in the Downtown Mission’s fourth annual Coldest Night of the Year fundraiser.  Coldest Night is a walk that happens in communities across Canada on the same night. The event

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Sex for sale

Sex for sale

🕔12:55, 19.Feb 2016

By Alyssa Horrobin Cases of sex trafficking make headlines across North America, but local police and anti-human trafficking advocates say this is an issue in Windsor. Illegal activity involving the sex trade is an ongoing issue becoming more and more

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Police looking for driver of hit and run

Police looking for driver of hit and run

🕔13:12, 13.Nov 2015

By Alyssa Horrobin   Windsor police are investigating a hit and run that put a cyclist in the hospital. The driver of a white pickup truck hit a woman on a bicycle with the passenger sideview mirror on Oct. 27

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Neighbourhood program needs their CUP filled

Neighbourhood program needs their CUP filled

🕔14:38, 6.Nov 2015

By Alyssa Horrobin A municipal committee has made a decision in favour of funding the city-wide Community Univeristy Partnership. Ward 5 councilor Ed Sleiman, chairperson of the Social Development Health and Culture Standing Committee, made a motion to approve the

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Hot meals for the cold weather

Hot meals for the cold weather

🕔13:55, 30.Oct 2015

A Wallaceburg church has been feeding members of the community for more than nine years with one meal every month. In March 2006 Jennifer Provost-Kanally, a member of First Baptist Church in Wallaceburg, started Helping Hands Café, a monthly meal outreach

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