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• Essex approves operating budget, expects 20% decrease in provincial funding

  12-02-2019 11:00 via CBC | Windsor News
  The $10.3-million capital budget will be deliberated next council meeting.
  
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• Crossover recommended for Cabana Road

  21-02-2019 04:18 via Windsor Star
  A pedestrian crossover with flashing lights that require motorists to stop is being recommended for Cabana Road west of Karen Street despite not meeting the criteria.
  City council’s environment, transportation and public safety standing committee made the recommendation Wednesday after Coun. Kieran McKenzie, who represents the ward, offered to pay for the crossover with his ward funds.
  This is a public safety committee
  “I’m not a traffic expert, but I’m an expert in repre
  
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• Local roundup: Express stay hot at home with win over Edge

  21-02-2019 04:15 via Windsor Star
  Home continues to be sweet for the Windsor Express.
  The club reeled off its ninth-straight win at the WFCU Centre with a 123-116 decision over the St. John’s Edge on Wednesday in NBL of Canada action before a crowd of 1,603.
  “That’s pretty good to know because that’s one of our goals,” Express guard Horace Wormely said of the home winning streak. “We try to protect home court.”
  Coming off back-to-back losses in St. John’s, the Express scored the ga
  
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• Move of College Avenue bus terminal to Hotel Dieu-Grace may be delayed

  21-02-2019 03:27 via Windsor Star
  City council will be asked to defer a decision on moving the west end bus terminal from College Avenue to Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare on Prince Road, a significant issue in that ward in the last election.
  Council’s environment, transportation and public safety standing committee voted to recommend the deferral Wednesday.
  Ward 2 Coun. Fabio Costante called the plan “putting a square peg in a round hole.”
  There are pockets of the city that need this service more than others
  The h
  
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• Windsor women's charity benefits big from Shoppers Growing Women's Health campaign

  21-02-2019 03:00 via Windsor Star
  Windsor Women Working with Immigrant Women can continue to grow with support from the Shoppers LOVE YOU program.
  The organization was one of a few local charities to benefit from the campaign and was presented with its whopping donation cheque of $18,947 at its downtown office Wednesday morning.
  “It’s amazing, as a nonprofit it’s sometimes hard to be able to fund some of our underfunded programs, so to be receiving such a large donation — it’s going to be able to he
  
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• High speed internet still a work in progress in Amherstburg

  21-02-2019 02:54 via Windsor Star
  The availability of high-speed internet continues to extend its reach within the Amherstburg community although access for every resident is still more than a year away.
  “The nice thing now is that we can say it’s here,” Mayor Aldo DiCarlo said. “Especially for the areas we would expect business or industry to be considering.”
  High population spots such as the town core, Kingsbridge and Pointe West were brought online last summer.
  In today’s world, the majorit
  
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• Downtown robbery has transgender community concerned

  21-02-2019 02:49 via CBC | Windsor News
  A robbery at a building on Wyandotte street is being labelled a hate crime by LGBTQ+ group, W.E. Trans Support.
  
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• Transgender community centre targeted in break-in

  21-02-2019 02:44 via Windsor Star
  The executive director and founder of the city’s transgender community centre believes a break-in early Wednesday is directly related to Tuesday’s public school board’s vote allowing the Pride flag to fly at elementary schools in June.
  Windsor police noticed the glass was broken and the front door was ajar at W.E. Trans Support at 111 Wyandotte St. W. early Wednesday.
  They contacted executive director Jayce Carver and other representatives who arrived to find the office had bee
  
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• Windsor-Essex residents invited to take centre stage by WSO

  21-02-2019 02:27 via Windsor Star
  The Windsor Symphony Orchestra is seeking individuals and groups with performance skills to sign up for an onstage competition.
  Windsor and Essex County residents of all ages are welcome to audition for WE Got Talent, a talent show hosted by the local symphony orchestra, to compete for the grand prize of a free eight-hour booking of the Capitol Theatre.
  The first place winner also gets $500 cash, while second prize is a pair of tickets to the WSO’s WIFF Celebration and a pair of tickets to
  
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• AIDS Committee launches opioid anti-stigma campaign on overdose crisis day of action

  21-02-2019 02:16 via Windsor Star
  The AIDS Committee of Windsor has launched a new campaign on drug awareness and education.
  On the third annual National Day of Action on the overdose crisis Wednesday, the AIDS Committee of Windsor announced Label Me Person, an anti-stigma campaign to promote public understanding of people who use substances while emphasizing a need for the community to address the opioid crisis.
  The perception is its mainly affecting the homeless and sex trade workers
  “One death is too many deaths in our
  
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• Detroit native Khari McClelland performs in Windsor, honouring Black History Month

  21-02-2019 02:02 via Windsor Star
  In honour of Black History Month, genre-bending soul and gospel artist Khari McClelland is taking his latest musical storytelling performance “We Now Recognize” nationwide — including in Windsor.
  Born and raised in Detroit, McClelland spent a few years in Windsor before heading to Vancouver where he now resides.
  There is a little bit of a nod to early folklore expression within the black tradition
  “It’s a place that holds a lot of dear people and fond memories,&rdqu
  
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• Looming crisis with an aging Windsor-Essex workforce

  21-02-2019 01:33 via Windsor Star
  There’s a crisis looming with an aging workforce where 21 per cent of Windsor-Essex workers are over the age of 55.
  “There’s going to be a real crisis where information is not necessarily passed on to the next generation of workers if they’re not there to be hired and they’re not there to be taught,” Justin Falconer, senior director with Workforce WindsorEssex, said Wednesday.
  Too often people leave and that institutional knowledge is gone
  Falconer said the re
  
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• Brutal stabbing attack of pregnant woman may lead to five-year prison sentence

  21-02-2019 01:03 via Windsor Star
  A Windsor man could be facing up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated assault in a brutal downtown stabbing of a young woman who was five months pregnant.
  Benjamin Carter, now 22, was initially charged with attempted murder for his attack of the woman, described in court Wednesday as a female acquaintance.
  He needs to be segmented from society based on the nature of this offence
  The stabbing occurred on the evening of June 5 following a brief argument between Cater and the
  
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• BASF, Piroli, city working on solution to allow Piroli's 150-unit building

  21-02-2019 00:40 via Windsor Star
  The biggest residential development proposed for the core in decades appears back on track with an April 1 start date, after last week’s objection by an industrial neighbour threatened to derail it.
  On Wednesday, builder Piroli Group Developments and BASF Canada issued a joint statement that signals they’re working out their differences. Nine days earlier at city council’s Development and Heritage Standing Committee, BASF objected to Piroli’s rezoning application for long
  
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• Winter has Windsor woman in wheelchair feeling 'stuck' in her own home

  20-02-2019 22:30 via CBC | Windsor News
  When Environment Canada issues a special weather statement, Joannie Cowie says she feels like a prisoner in her own home.
  
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• Incze taking nothing for granted as Spitfires' No. 1 goalie

  20-02-2019 22:17 via Windsor Star
  It’s taken Colton Incze three seasons to get a chance to be a No. 1 goalie in the Ontario Hockey League.
  Now that he’s gotten that chance with the Windsor Spitfires, the 20-year-old Incze is not about to stop working.
  “When you’ve been working for the last three seasons in the OHL to get a starting job, you don’t take that opportunity for granted,” Incze said. “When you get the ball, you have to try and run with it because one or two bad games and you lo
  
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• LaSalle police urge online vigilance after complaint from parents about Roblox chat

  20-02-2019 21:56 via Windsor Star
  A call from a worried family about their child having an online chat with a stranger has prompted LaSalle police to remind parents to be aware of the internet activities of their kids.
  LaSalle police said a local household contacted them on Feb. 14 with concerns about something found on a child’s iPad.
  The child had been playing on Roblox — an immensely popular online multiplayer video game platform geared towards kids.
  While enjoying a game of Skywars, the child received an unsolici
  
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• Lancers enters into new soccer partnership with Windsor TFC

  20-02-2019 21:25 via Windsor Star
  Windsor TFC and the University of Windsor Lancers men’s soccer program have entered into a new partnership that will tie the two clubs together.
  The hope is that the new partnership will align development priorities and consolidate resources for both programs.
  “The relationship is vital for us and for them,” Windsor TFC president Vancho Cirovski said on Wednesday. “We’re thrilled about this.”
  Under the agreement, Lancer men’s head coach Ryan Mendonca wil
  
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• Service Ontario warns of delays for marriage, birth and death certificates

  20-02-2019 21:16 via CBC | Windsor News
  Anyone requesting certificates could experience delays of up to three-and-a-half months.
  
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• Canada's Infrastructure Minister visits Windsor/Essex, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan to meet with local community and business leaders and discuss the benefits of the Gordie Howe International Bridge project - Canada NewsWire

  20-02-2019 21:00 via "allintitle:Windsor, Ontario" - Google News
  Canada's Infrastructure Minister visits Windsor/Essex, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan to meet with local community and business leaders and discuss the benefits of the Gordie Howe International Bridge project  Canada NewsWireWINDSOR, ON, Feb. 20, 2019 /CNW/ - Canadians and Americans will benefit from increased trade as a result of the Government of Canada's investment in the ...
  
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• Some are calling Ontario's latest salt shortage unprecedented

  20-02-2019 19:20 via CBC | Windsor News
  Ontario homeowners and contractors are struggling with what some call an unprecedented province-wide shortage of salt, leaving them with few options as another encore of freezing rain bears down on a large swathe of the province.
  
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• 'We're asking the government for a little bit of help': local wineries, chamber of commerce proposing changes

  20-02-2019 19:17 via CBC | Windsor News
  The Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce is advocating for policy changes for the wine and grape sector.
  
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• Woman forced into sex trade in Windsor, say police

  20-02-2019 19:05 via Windsor Star
  A call about a woman in trouble at a local hotel last weekend resulted in a human trafficking investigation, say Windsor police.
  Officers responded on Sunday at around 1 p.m. to an adult female complainant at a hotel in Windsor.
  Police learned that the woman had recently come to Windsor from another province with an acquaintance.
  Investigators determined that in the time since the victim’s arrival in Windsor, she was assaulted, threatened, and forced into prostitution by her acquaintance.
  
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• UPDATE: Forecast now calls for brief period of 'patchy' freezing rain

  20-02-2019 18:50 via Windsor Star
  The freezing rain expected this afternoon will not be as significant as originally forecasted by Environment Canada.
  A Special Weather Statement had been issued, but the latest update says that the freezing rain is now not expected to last more than the two hours, which is the requirement for a freezing rain warning.
  “A brief period of freezing rain is expected as a low pressure system from the Southern Plains moves toward the Great Lakes,” the forecast now says.
  The light snowfall e
  
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• US automakers to Trump: Don't slap tariffs on imported cars

  20-02-2019 18:46 via CBC | Windsor News
  America's auto industry is bracing for a potential escalation in President Donald Trump's tariff war with the world, one that could weaken the global auto industry and economy, inflate car prices and trigger a backlash in Congress.
  
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• Doctors awarded new, four-year contract with fee increases

  20-02-2019 18:13 via Windsor Star
  TORONTO — An arbitrator has awarded Ontario doctors a new contract in a ruling that puts no hard cap on the physician services budget, a decision that comes after a years-long fracture in doctors’ relationship with the government.
  Placing such a restriction on payments to doctors for publicly insured services would be unfair, arbitrator William Kaplan wrote in the decision released Tuesday.
  “No other Canadian jurisdiction enforces a hard cap (caps in New Brunswick and Quebec ar
  
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• Service Ontario warns of delays for marriage, birth and death certificates - Windsor Star

  20-02-2019 18:11 via "allintitle:Windsor, Ontario" - Google News
  Service Ontario warns of delays for marriage, birth and death certificates  Windsor StarTORONTO — The Ontario government says it is experiencing delays of up to three and a half months in processing some marriage, birth and death certificates.
  
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• Charges laid in human trafficking investigation, possible victim saved

  20-02-2019 18:07 via CBC | Windsor News
  Police have arrested one suspect in a human trafficking investigation.
  
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• Chemical Bank wins naming rights for Cobo Center

  20-02-2019 17:56 via CBC | Windsor News
  Chemical Bank has been awarded the naming rights for the Cobo convention centre in downtown Detroit.
  
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• Charges Laid In Human Trafficking Investigation - windsoriteDOTca News

  20-02-2019 17:32 via "allintitle:Windsor, Ontario" - Google News
  Charges Laid In Human Trafficking Investigation  windsoriteDOTca NewsWindsor Police have laid charges in a human trafficking investigation. Police say that on Sunday, February 17th, 2019 at approximately 1pm officers.
  
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