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Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
from Bob Duff of the Windsor Star, “I’m really happy here,” said (Andrei) Loktionov, a native of Voskresensk, Russia. “I miss my home, for sure, but I want to be here with the team and make the adjustment to the hockey here.” Again, take a moment. Put yourself in Loktionov’s skates. Imagine abandoning your family and friends, leaving your comfort zone in the dust, all in order to pursue...
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Driive (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Boston Globe COLUMN: Auto Talk Windsor Star, Canada - 2 hours ago "That's been good for us," Landry, a Canadian who used to be president of Chrysler Canada, told automotive writers during the monthly paw-through of the ... Carmakers in the credit coal mine CBC.ca Credit Crunch Has Effect On Local Auto Sales LocalNews8.com Auto news in brief: Hard times for Toyota Detroit Free Press Central...
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Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
from Dave Waddell of the Windsor Star, Paquette is taking the bold leap into the future by making Windsor the first place in the nation to offer the Next Testting program along with several other modern features that rely heavily on the cold, unemotional crunching of numbers and computer analysis of a player’s skills.... The central pillar of the new program is Next Testting, which...
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The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Via The Windsor Star: Pamphlets mailed to Saskatoon households in 2003 and 2004 by then-MP Jim Pankiw were racist and stirred up negative feelings toward Aboriginal people, a Canadian Human Rights Commission tribunal was told Monday. "They were half-truths and half-lies, out of context," said Richard Ross, one of nine complainants who were offended by the series of pamphlets, mailed between...
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Out Of Left Field (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Over at Big Man on Campus, our friend Greg Layson has published his pre-season survey of OUA men's basketball coaches, asking them to pick league all-stars and division winners. Coaches could not vote for their own players. Carleton's Aaron Doornekamp, the reigning player of the year, did not get the most votes for the pre-season all-star team. Please click through to find out...
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WindsorCityBlog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
It is payback time. Big time! Nobody but nobody, even with the Windsor Star and Gord Henderson on his side should dare take on Spanky and his gang and think he can win in the end. That was made clear in the Budget papers where the MITI Minister was specifically mentioned by the Minister of Finance to put Gord in his place. Dwight and Sandra, obviously with the concurrence of the Premier,...
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Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
from the Windsor Star, S o simple, so symbolic. With all due respect to the loud gargoyles, skeletons, rock stars, cartoon characters and city skylines which now protect the faces of today’s National Hockey League’s netminders, it’s Gerry Cheevers’ “stitch” mask which takes the cake as the coolest ever. Picture the scene when Cheevers made his um, mark, on history, with the Boston...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
A 34-year-old Zamboni driver at Kingsville (Ont.) Arena has been charged with impaired driving after witnesses said she bumped into the boards, missed large patches of ice and slumped over the wheel, the Windsor Star reported. Police say she had a flask of vodka in her pocket.
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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...
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WindsorCityBlog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
You are never going to see a headline like the above nor a story similar to this in the Windsor Star unless Council starts a March, 2003 revolution against the Mayor. This is a take off on the Star’s Truck Ferry story: “City council approved recommendations Tuesday to spur over $2 billion worth of improvements to the Ambassador Bridge Enhancement Project and the DRIC road to the...
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Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
from Dave Waddell of the Windsor Star, There’s apparently just no sanctuary from abuse for Detroit Red Wings forward Tomas Holmstrom. Even in the Wings dressing room, the slashes and cross checks turn into verbal jabs as Holmstrom readied himself to join a photo shoot for an upcoming story for Men’s Health Magazine. “How did you get picked for that'” queried Kirk Maltby. “They must have...
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Dispel the Illusion (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Retired Windsor police detective and Order of Canada member Frank Chauvin has launched a legal challenge against the Advisory Council for the Order of Canada that granted the award to abortionist Henry Morgentaler. The Windsor Star reports that Mr. Chauvin bases his challenge on irregularities in the decision process regarding Morgentaler's appointment, and that Chief Justice of...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
WINDSOR, Ontario, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A police official in Canada has been sentenced to six months of house arrest for stealing $425 from an undercover officer during a sting operation. Windsor police Constable Michael Shannon was placed on suspension after he was sentenced Thursday, The Windsor Star reported Friday. Shannon, 40, was convicted of stealing $425 from an undercover...
