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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
WINDSOR, Ontario, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Southwestern Ontario opponents of what could become the largest wind farm site in Canada raised new concerns the turbines would endanger private airstrips. Councilors gave approval for Brookfield Renewable Power to erect 350-foot high wind turbine towers at an Essex County council meeting Wednesday night, However, several residents said planners had overlooked the...
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The Court (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
At a time when York University and the University of Windsor have experienced disruptions due to labour disputes, it seems unusually timely that the Ontario Court of Appeal would deliver a resounding re-articulation of the right to collective bargaining as found in s. 2(d) of the Charter. On its face, the decision in Fraser v. [...]
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WindsorCityBlog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Take pity on the Honourable John Gerretsen, Ontario Minister of the Environment. The poor man has been placed in an impossible position not only by his Cabinet College, Windsor’s own, Minister of Finance, but also by Ontario Realty Corporation in their conclusions about the Brighton Beach area as the location for the new jail in Windsor. Wait until you read what the Corrections Department's actual...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
WINDSOR, Ontario, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The slump in the automobile industry has led to more layoffs at National Auto Radiator Ltd., a Windsor, Canada, a union member said. National Auto Radiator cut more than a dozen jobs in October, continuing a downturn that has taken the company from 450 union workers 20 years ago to just 44 this month, union member Mike McCartney told the Windsor Star. Some of the...
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
A Canadian judge issued Ontario's first legal dog ban Wednesday, forbidding a 20-year-old admitted abuser in Windsor from ever owning a dog again.Justice of the Peace Angela Renaud told Amanda Armstrong the ban was on top of a $1,000 fine issued last week after Armstrong pleaded guilty to two counts of animal cruelty, the Windsor Star reported.In February, Humane Society agents executed a search Feb....
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
WINDSOR — The captain of a new Windsor, Ontario, cruise ship says his vessel is safe despite a 64-year-old woman going overboard and into the Detroit River.
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The Agonist (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
The North Coast airwaves of 1965 to 1971 featured genre-free wall-to-wall Top 40 hits spun by AM powerhouses CKLW (Windsor, Ontario) and WIXY 1260 (Cleveland). They were the stations of choice at the city pool and, when we were old enough to drive our girlfriends, blankets and radios there, at the beach. Along with the British Invasion groups and the Folk Rockers, these were the singers that grabbed...
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WindsorCityBlog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Let us cut to the chase right away. The only border friend that the Province has is the Owner of the Ambassador Bridge. PERIOD! Unlike our Mayor who was “OK with cabinet shuffle Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis is cautiously optimistic the Ontario roots of Canada's new transportation minister will bode well for the city on the border file” I would bet that the Province is extremely pessimistic about its...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
WINDSOR, Ontario (Reuters) - No. 3 U.S. automaker Chrysler LLC threw a birthday party here on Monday for the minivan it invented 25 years ago, but fear that a possible merger with General Motors Corp may cost workers their jobs overshadowed the event.
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24/7 with Ronald Lewis (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
For 21 years, I was a stone’s throw away from Windsor, Ontario, Canada in Detroit, Michigan. However, it was after leaving Michigan that I spent more time in Canada than ever. Now, after years of numerous border crossings and flights into the Great White North, I often question the reasoning behind the lack of cross-border [...]
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Market Wire - Energy and Utilities: Oil and Gas (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Onco Petroleum Inc. (CNQ: OPI) (FRANKFURT: 3HX) - The Board of Directors of Onco Petroleum Inc. announce the relocation of their Corporate Offices to Windsor, Ontario. Henceforth, all accounting and administrative functions will be handled out of the Windsor office.
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Democracy for Vancouver (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
In addition to being my late friend Karen’s birthday, I just got news from Mom that my 107-y.o. aunt in Windsor, Ontario has had a stroke. She’s a tough old broad but this may be the beginning of the end. Aunt Camilla’s been extraordinarily lucky, though - this is her first real health problem other than [...]
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
WINDSOR, Ontario, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- The town council of a farming community in southwestern Ontario has advanced plans for construction of what would be Canada's largest wind farm. At a three-hour public town meeting in Comber Monday, councilors voted 6-4 in favor of allowing Brookfield Renewable Power to erect 148 of the 350-foot high wind turbine towers, the Windsor Star reported Tuesday. The meeting...
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
About 150 pheasant hunters and tourists stranded on Canada's southernmost island by windy weekend weather were counting on getting home Monday.Conditions turned cold and windy last week around Pelee Island in Lake Erie off southwestern Ontario, the Windsor Star reported.In a telephone interview Sunday, hunter Jason Culp told the newspaper at least 250 hunters left the island Friday when they saw the...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
WINDSOR, Ontario, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A Canadian pizza delivery driver in Windsor, Ontario, says his car's wireless rear-view camera system shows pornography when he drives on a certain street. Dikran Ohanyan, 52, who owns a pizzeria and also makes deliveries, bought the system about a year ago as a safety precaution during backing, the Windsor Star reported. Two weeks ago, he said, he was delivering...
