Tag: Windsor Police Service
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What does your compassionate Windsor look like?
Are Windsor’s only options to deal with vandalism & homelessness either tough on crime or path of atonement. What does your compassionate Windsor look like?
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The Morning Drive: Feb. 9, 2023
A Windsor police officer defends his $50 convoy donation, Canada needs real discount grocery stores, & an Amherstburg artist sees benefits from Tiktok.
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The Politics of Consumption (sites)
Last year Windsor City Council approved the location and kicked the implementation process into high gear for a Safe Consumption Site. Today a newly elected city councillor is seeking to undo that progress and restart the process.
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The Morning Drive: Nov. 7, 2022
Blood Moon (Dan Riskin); Crime Prevention Week (Windsor Police Chief Bellaire); Ontario General Strike? (Dave Cassidy); $2 billion Powerball (Rory O’Neil).
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CTV WINDSOR: Mixed reaction to recommendations by marijuana task force
Eighty recommendations were made by a federal task force looking at the legalization of marijuana.
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WINDSOR INDEPENDENT: LOCAL WOMAN DELIVERS 500 HANDMADE CARDS TO WINDSOR POLICE
For the past two years an anonymous Windsor senior citizen has been writing 500 personalized Christmas cards for every Windsor Police officer, but following an accident, she’s asking for help.
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The Urbanite: Marijuana March mobilizes for legalization
Local marijuana activists are advocating for Canadian cannabis legalization in a country that as of late is falling behind from gains made in the United States.
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The Urbanite: Alternative transit is broken in Windsor
Until our politicians and council candidates understand that residents want better infrastructure for alternative transit it’ll never arrive.
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The Urbanite: Exclusive: UWindsor president addresses Israeli student boycott on campus
The Urbanite sat down for an exclusive interview with Alan Wildeman, University of Windsor president and vice-chancellor, regarding a referendum endorsing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against the Israeli government.
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The Urbanite: UWindsor becomes first Canadian university to approve BDS via undergraduate referendum
The University of Windsor Students’ Alliance has become the first student union in Canada to approve a boycott, divestment and sanction strategy of Israel through an undergraduate referendum.
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The Urbanite: Student referendum brings crime and intimidation to UWindsor
A student executive’s office was broken into and vandalized on the eve of the BDS referendum at the University of Windsor.
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ourWindsor: Apartment building targeted in west end shooting
The Windsor Police Service is still requesting information from the public about a shooting which took place this past Tuesday at a west end condominium.
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ourWindsor.ca: Toronto Police work with Windsor Police on Project Traveler
An investigation led by the Toronto Police integrated guns and drugs task-force has resulted in 42 tactical teams from 17 police agencies executing 29 search warrants in Toronto and Windsor which netted 28 arrests and saw 40 firearms over $3-million in narcotics and $572,000 in cash confiscated.
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ourWindsor.ca: Windsor Police Service launch new website and suspect uses it to turn self in
The Windsor Police Service has a new website which runs on the same template as the official City of Windsor website, bringing consistency across municipal electronic platforms.
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ourWindsor.ca: Police request public’s help in locating hit-and-run suspect
Windsor Police are requesting the help of the public in locating a hit-and-run suspect who struck a young girl while she was riding her bike at the intersection of Bernard and Seminole yesterday afternoon.
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ourWindsor.ca: St. Patrick’s Day patrons kept police busy but were not overly unruly
While it was cold and snowing on St. Patrick’s Day in Windsor, that didn’t stop residents from going out, drinking a few alcoholic beverages, and generally having a good time. While Windsor Police were kept busy throughout the day and night, patrons didn’t get unruly as some might have expected.
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ourWindsor.ca: Students with intellectual disabilities take part in sporting event
Special education students from six area high schools descended on the University of Windsor’s St. Dennis Athletic Centre today to take part in the 4 Corners Youth Sport Competition which provides competition opportunities to high school students with intellectual disabilities.
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ourWindsor.ca: Police officer pleads guilty to discreditable conduct
A Windsor police officer has plead guilty to “discreditable conduct becoming of a sworn officer” for an incident in late 2011.
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ourWindsor.ca: Police to launch educational campaign about synthetic marijuana
Three Ontario police forces are teaming up to produce an educational campaign regarding synthetic marijuana – called “IZMS” on the street – which is being sold across the province. IZMS are branded as synthetic marijuana and while its manufacturers bill it as ‘legal weed’, policing organizations aren’t entirely convinced.
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ourWindsor.ca: Zombies: Windsor emergency preparedness
While the walking dead aren’t quite roaming the streets in search of raw flesh to consume (yet), federal politicians engaged in a brief conversation about zombies and how they relate to emergency preparedness in the House of Commons yesterday, and OurWindsor.ca spoke with Staff Sgt. Dodd of the Windsor Police about zombie preparedness in Windsor.
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ourWindsor.ca: Police release internal census results
The Windsor Police Service released the results of their inaugural Workplace Census which was conducted between May 24th and August 31st of 2012. The census was initiated by the Windsor Police Service Human Rights Project team.
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ourWindsor.ca: City Police Can Expect a Pay Raise…No layoffs
Windsor Police officers can expect a pay raise which works out to roughly 12% over the course of four years. The ruling, which was retroactive dating back to 2011, equals a 2.9% annual pay increase.
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ourWindsor.ca: Windsor Police Chaplain to be Missed by Community
Windsor has lost a “true servant of the people” in the loss of Windsor Police Chaplain Rev. Jack Costello according to Police Chief Al Frederick.
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ourWindsor.ca: New Police Chief and Deputies Sworn In
Members of the Windsor Police Service, City Council, administration and the community alike filled The St. Clair College Centre for the Arts for the official Windsor Police Services (WPS) Swearing in Ceremony for Police Chief Al Frederick, and Deputies Power and Derus respectively.