Bob Becken

Ahead of the Gordie Howe bridge opening this fall, 15 Bluetooth traffic readers are being installed this summer across Windsor-Essex.

As it stands, almost all monitoring is done during the spring, summer and early fall months when there's easier access to research vessels and equipment like buoys.

Case of measles confirmed at Essex County private school, says health unit

Some people in the northeast Chatham-Kent community of Bothwell, and surrounding Zone Township, want to go back in time to when their community was independent.

He started running in his early 40s and completed marathons on every continent of the world before his 50th birthday. Jasdeep Singh accomplished the feat in December in the freezing cold temperatures of Antarctica.

Imagine finding out the elementary school project you completed — and purposely launched into a lake — was found by a student at the same school your daughter now attends, 26 years later. 

A tentative agreement has been reached for over 9,000 workers at Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), averting potential job action later this week.

There’s a growing threat from people posing as immigration lawyers and consultants in Windsor, Ont., according to a refugee claimant support organization and legal aid officials. Similar complaints about fraudulent lawyers preying on newcomers were also recently brought to light in Montreal.

For the second time in just over a month, a kangaroo has escaped an Ontario zoo — this time in Chatham-Kent. Police say the animal got out of Greenview Park and Zoo, located in the hamlet of Morpeth.

A $480 million class action lawsuit has been filed against the five Ontario hospitals hit by a recent ransomware attack — and the IT company that services them.

Christine Hodge says she sympathizes with Canadian families who cannot access essential medication and treatment for mental illness. The Ottawa woman’s daughter, now 21, was diagnosed with Bipolar I disorder before the pandemic began; however, it took more than two years to find a psychiatrist willing to take her on.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is something even more specific than general nihilism, according to Anne Anlin Cheng. The English prof at Princeton says the movie is a clear reflection of immigrant and Asian American experiences, with a powerful message to offer in the face of centuries of systemic racism and alienation.

A recent piece of legislation put forward in the U.S. is meant to ban the use of TikTok nationwide. And a digital rights advocacy group calls the move a distraction from wider privacy issues — launching the #DontBanTikTok campaign in opposition of the bill.

Agata Gawron says she felt empowered when she thought she could access MAID this year. Now, she says the proposed delay is “beyond hurtful” news to her because it means at least one more year of suffering.

With a new album around the corner, longtime Canadian DJ and turntablist Eric San, aka Kid Koala, is bringing his hour-long multimedia stage performance, The Storyville Mosquito, to Quebec City. He says his family has been a driving force behind his artistic inspiration.

Concordia University associate professor Ted Rutland says the research he’s conducted indicates that no Canadian police department has had its funding reduced since the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 came with calls to ‘defund the police.’

Toronto’s Edward Tian, 22, created GPTZero in response to the wildly successful AI content generating app ChatGPT, to give people a way to ascertain whether writing samples were produced by humans or bots.

Dr. Jamil Sawaya, a family physician in Saskatoon, says an often overlooked part of the problem of Canada’s family doctor shortage is that for people coming out of medical school, family medicine is a much less appealing choice than other options.

This week marks the premiere of HBO’s latest blockbuster drama The Last Of Us, and the streamer is hopeful it will be their next big hit. And for fans of the original 2013 game, which already was a success, there’s a lot riding on this release.

An addictions and mental health advocate says according to the conversations she’s having, young Canadians are leading the charge when it comes to reducing their alcohol intake, full-blown sobriety or drinking non-alcoholic beverages.