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Water taps turned on at Windsor’s aquatic centre (With video)
The taps have been turned on and the giant pool is beginning to fill up inside Windsor’s $78-million Family Aquatic Complex. The 1.3-million-gallon pool should be filled by the middle of next week, and...
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Aid truck bound for Oklahoma City tied up in red tape (With video)
Windsor and Essex County donors have loaded a truck with 40,000 pounds of aid for Oklahoma City’s tornado victims, but red tape is keeping it in a Leamington parking lot. Dennis Sauve, a co-ordinator...
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C’mon in, the water’s fine… hopefully
Break out the bikinis and board shorts! Windsor’s most popular beach is open for the season. But you may want to check the water quality and seal your orifices before you take a swim at Sandpoint Park,...
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Twisters, floods hit Oklahoma Friday; mother, daughter dead
OKLAHOMA CITY – Tornadoes rolled in from the prairie and slammed Oklahoma City and its suburbs on Friday, killing a mother and baby and crumbling cars and tractor-trailers along a major interstate. The...
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Retired RCMP officer resumes a colourful life interrupted
Sitting comfortably in a wheelchair in the living room of his newly built Tecumseh home, retired RCMP officer Bernie Campbell looks almost regal in his calm. It’s been nearly five years since he’s...
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CBSA seizes 19 kilos of cocaine at Ambassador Bridge
A Richmond Hill truck driver is behind bars after Windsor border officers at the Ambassador Bridge found 19 kilograms of cocaine stashed in his big rig. Officers with Canada Services Agency (CBSA)...
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Windsor police find shotgun fired in house after death threat
Windsor police have tracked down a missing 12-gauge shotgun, two weeks after responding to a house where a man allegedly threatened to kill his girlfriend and someone fired a gun in the basement....
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New tourist information centres opening
Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island opened the first of three new travel information centres Friday in the Devonshire Mall. The area’s tourism bureau will also add a location at the Pelee Island Winery...
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Pilot project stretches dollars for school nutrition programs
It costs just four cents per spinach muffin, when you search out ingredients in bulk from local farmers and wholesalers and have high school co-op students bake them, 3,000 at a time. That’s the...
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Parkway construction proves public-private partnerships work
After some early bumps in the road, the decision to use a partnership between the public and private sectors to build the $1.4-billion Herb Gray Parkway appears to have been the right way to go, say...
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Tornadoes, storms kill 9; Midwest residents begin to assess damage (with video)
OKLAHOMA CITY – Emergency officials set out Saturday morning to see how much damage a violent burst of thunderstorms and tornadoes caused as it swept across the Midwest overnight, killing at least nine...
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Toronto rally calls on mayor Rob Ford to resign over video scandal (with video)
TORONTO — Several hundred protesters gathered outside Toronto city hall bellowed chants, held placards and scratched out messages using sticks of chalk Saturday as they made their case for Mayor Rob...
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New location, new customers for Windsor Farmers’ Market
The Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Market kicked off its fifth season Saturday at a new location, with new vendors and attracting new customers. The weekly farmers’ market will be held at Charles Clark...
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Investigators recover cockpit voice recorder in Ontario helicopter crash
MOOSONEE, Ont. – Investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of an Ontario air ambulance helicopter that crashed in the province’s north, killing all four people onboard. Transportation...
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Art in the Park breaks record (with video)
This year’s Art in the Park featured a record-breaking number of exhibitors as thousands flocked to the Willistead Park grounds to take it all in. There were 283 displays, which is the most that the...
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Henderson: Bring on the flag
Never look a gift horse in the mouth? Maybe in some communities, but here in Windsor we boast beady-eyed folks whose first inclination is to climb inside the poor animal’s muzzle and start drilling...
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Federal Conservatives step in to help Oklahoma City aid truck cross the border
An aid truck bound for Oklahoma City to help tornado victims has crossed the border after all following pressure from the Canadian federal government to relax the red tape, Essex MP Jeff Watson said....
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Southern Plains, Ozarks clean up as storms that killed 12 in floods (with video)
By Sean Murphy, The Associated Press EL RENO, Okla. – A violent weather system that claimed 12 lives in Oklahoma and Arkansas amid tornadoes and flash floods gave way to clearing skies as the storms...
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Man rescued from Detroit River near McKay
Emergency crews rescued a man from the Detroit River near McKay Avenue Sunday afternoon. Paramedics took the man to hospital on a stretcher at about 1:30 p.m. RCMP and Windsor police boats were on the...
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Premier Wynne makes another stop in Windsor (with video)
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne made another stop in Windsor Sunday afternoon, speaking at the Ontario Young Liberals’ annual general meeting and dropping by the Riverside Farmer’s Market. Wynne was in...
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