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Daffodil pins make their return for Daffodil Month

Daffodil pins make their return for Daffodil Month

🕔11:13, 17.Apr 2015

Canadian Cancer Society looks to match last year’s $64,665 Cancer survivors and volunteers will be helping the local cancer society raise money as its annual daffodil sale gets underway. Members of the cancer society and volunteers will be selling daffodil

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Local band takes the stage for cystic fibrosis awareness

Local band takes the stage for cystic fibrosis awareness

🕔11:07, 17.Apr 2015

Caleb Workman Converged Citizen Staff Event held by local youth raises $8,000 A local band performed their first show at Johnny Shotz in Tecumseh on April 11. Disaster Strike, a band with members from Windsor and Essex County, joined the Music

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Nicolas Cage’s head may bring world record to Windsor

Nicolas Cage’s head may bring world record to Windsor

🕔17:03, 10.Apr 2015

By Matt Recker Nicolas Cage may be putting Windsor in the record books.   Local artist Thomas Malone wants to break a Guinness Record for the world’s largest mosaic, and he’s using the actors likeness to do it.   “It

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Holy Cross raises awareness for autism

🕔12:30, 10.Apr 2015

By Caleb Workman School holds assembly to show people with autism aren’t much different “Inside, I’m just like you,” is a new motto adopted by Holy Cross Catholic Elementary School after the recent World Autism Awareness Day. Some students in

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Walkerville copes with loss of teacher

Walkerville copes with loss of teacher

🕔12:23, 27.Mar 2015

Johnathan Hutton March 24,2015   Hundreds of Walkerville Collegiate Institute high school students lined Richmond Street on Tuesday to pay their respects and say a last farewell to a favourite teacher.   Rob Baxter died March 18 after suffering a

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High-profile crimes

🕔22:16, 13.Mar 2015

  by Evan Mathias   A pair of murders, stabbings, breaks and enters and most recently a shooting that sent two people to hospital. Windsor has seen its fair share of high profile crimes in recent weeks. The Major Crimes

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Afrofest celebrates tenth anniversary

Afrofest celebrates tenth anniversary

🕔11:30, 9.Mar 2015

JEREMY JAMES FOKUOH Feb 27/2015 The University of Windsor staff and students are celebrating thetenth anniversary of the student-led program Afrofest. Since 2005, one week in February has been dedicated to Afrofest so that students at the university can celebrate

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Subway not student friendly anymore

🕔11:28, 9.Mar 2015

JEREMY JAMES FOKUOH Feb 18/2015 Some college and university students in Windsor feel that Subway’s new prices are not as affordable as they once were. Subway, being one of the top grossing fast food restaurants in the world, has always

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GMOs in apples affecting Windsorites

🕔14:50, 27.Feb 2015

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved the country’s first genetically modified apples and windsorites are feeling worried. The genetically modified organism will stop the apples from turning brown shortly after being cut. The apples were developed by the Canadian company

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Elder abuse: an ongoing dilemma in a growing country

🕔14:41, 27.Feb 2015

By: Kassandra Coates Elderly Abuse Feb 25, 2015 Experts at a recent conference said Abuse of the elderly is a growing concern and needs to be covered, at conference on elder abuse Feb 21. The Windsor Geriatric conference was held

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Student workers worried finically following Chrysler break

🕔14:25, 27.Feb 2015

By Tyler Boissonneault Student employees of Chrysler’s Windsor Assembly Plant are shifting focus back to school due to the plants downtime for retooling, but are now starting to worry about finances. The $2 billion investment will require a shutdown of

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New sexual education curriculum introduced

🕔14:20, 27.Feb 2015

By Samantha Wigfield After 16 years of careful deliberation, the Ontario Ministry of Education has revamped its sexual education curriculum. Provincial officials have updated and added to the outdated information given to students and the mandatory health and physical education

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Windsor organization helps immigrants

🕔13:41, 27.Feb 2015

By-Abass Wali Over the past three decades, immigrant women have been able to adapt better to live in Canada with the aid of a local organization Windsor Women Working with Immigrant Women. The organization has been serving the Windsor-Essex County

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LaSalle photographer visits Falkland Islands

LaSalle photographer visits Falkland Islands

🕔12:57, 27.Feb 2015

By Caleb Workman Family enjoys time spent with wildlife A LaSalle local went as far south as one could go to discover a new side of nature. Wildlife photographer Jason Telasco spent his Christmas vacation on the Falkland Islands, off

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Animal abuse in Windsor sparks anger

🕔12:54, 27.Feb 2015

The unusual killing of an animal in Windsor on Feb 18 has citizens in uproar. Donovan Patrick, a 20-year-old Windsor man, is facing charges of injuring and killing an animal.  Partick was arrested after brutally assaulting and killing a dog

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Everest College closure leaves students shocked

Everest College closure leaves students shocked

🕔16:45, 20.Feb 2015

UPDATE (Feb. 20, 4:27 p.m.): Corinthian Colleges Inc., the owners of Everest Colleges Canada Inc., announced the company would be filing for bankruptcy protection under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. B-3 (BIA). The decision to file for

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Lower Canadian dollar isn’t all bad for Windsor

🕔15:25, 20.Feb 2015

By Justin Prince Financial experts have been predicting a weaker Canadian economy in recent months, but the lower dollar is a good thing for the region according to Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Matt Marchand. Since February

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Dating After Divorce

Dating After Divorce

🕔13:59, 20.Feb 2015

By Mark Brown/Converged Citizen Staff Reporter As the afterglow of Valentine’s Day begins to fade, members of a divorce support group heard advice from relationship coaches. Half a dozen women gathered in a community room at Sobey’s Community Room in

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An awfully grey Valentine’s Day

An awfully grey Valentine’s Day

🕔13:57, 20.Feb 2015

By Ashley Ann Mentley Windsorites were given new choices this Valentine’s Day: the release of a sexy movie or a sale on adorable cats. On Feb. 14, the Windsor/Essex County Humane Society hosted an adoption event called “50 Shades of

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Filing tax return

Filing tax return

🕔13:08, 20.Feb 2015

By Rabiul Biplob Many taxpayers find it difficult to choose how to submit their income tax return and find the constantly changing rules make it complicated. Many also don’t understand why they should submit an income tax return. They also

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