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Josh Bourke

“I didn’t grow up playing football,” Josh admits. “Back then, in Windsor, there wasn’t great exposure for the sport. At...

The Windsor International Film Festival

The Windsor International Film Festival turns twenty in 2024, celebrating a major milestone.

Adventure Begins

On Thursday, July 4th, Alley Begin and her husband Marcel set off for unknown shores. Metaphorically, of course. Alley...

The Cheap Handyman

New Book Chronicles Home Improvement Misadventures Story by Michael SeguinPhotography by Brian Harris According to...

Noel Marentette

Chatham resident, Noel Marentette, has been a musician for sixty years. In recent years, he has taken to creating...

Zachery Dereniowski

“I always knew I wanted to help people,” Zachery sighs as he dredges up those old memories.

Flying High

There was nothing conventional about Amherstburg’s James Heugh’s entrance into acrobatics ten years ago, and the...

The Mark of Excellence

“I bring leadership,” he says when asked about the tools he brings to the Spitfires. “The players know I’ve been...

The Gretzky Kid

The trajectory of Wayne Gretzky’s life changed forever when he met his hero, Tim Horton, in Brantford, 1968. Tim Horton...

Field of Dreams

“I didn’t think I would be called up when I did. My focus has always been on being a good player. It caught me by...

Theory Into Practice

It takes grit to accept the offer to coach a losing team. The team who, season after season, came in last in the...

Polished to Play

Carefully selected tunes and a squad of good friends equal the perfect combination for a cover band. 

The Journey to the Ghost Hotel

Ghost Hotel is Morand’s upcoming series of tracks accompanied by the Bosco Boys, set to release February 1st, 2022.

Identifying Prostate Cancer

Our community was shocked to discover that Mayor Drew Dilkens was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer.

The Gift of Family

In September 2020, newlyweds Chantelle and Terrence Hurst opened their hearts to six orphaned siblings ranging in age...

Past and Present

Ouellette Avenue between University Avenue and Chatham Kresge’s replaced by Royal Bank building: 1952 vs. 2019...

Delaney Beaudoin

There’s a word to describe people like Delaney Beaudoin. And the word—pun very much intended—is animated.

Summer Nostalgia

The Bishop Boys consists of Windsor’s Austin Di Pietro and Andrew Adoranti. The young musical duo is studiously...

Jeff Burrows

As Burrows prepares for the twentieth and final Jeff Burrows 24 Hour Drum Marathon on May 29th and 30th at Good Time...

Bassam Mnaymneh

On Thursday, September 19th, the sky above Windsor began to roar. From a distance, they look like swans. The planes...

Home With Heart

“This home was designed to feel special.”

Gas of Tank

“The sounds of a jail brawl are unique in nature…”

Making A Home A Castle

The entire project took approximately two and a half months to install. Upwards of twenty professionals were brought in...

Leah Harris

Life for Windsor-born singer/songwriter, Leah Harris is a whirlwind but you wouldn’t know that from her relaxed manner.

Big Wide World

For most people, places like Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti, and Zanzibar are exotic names found in books and movies.

Be The Best Bee You Can Be

“I want to feel connected, authentically not electronically. I feel suffocated by my insecurities, as the hunger of...

Music From Another Realm

Opera Singer Amelia Daigle Soars to the Heights of Her Voice Story by Matthew St. AmandPhotography by Heather Taylor...

Golf Oscar Tango

Interesting how we can live near someone, learn about them through casual conversation, and then one day realize: “My...

Probing Spirit

fatherhood, family, the nature of life and the role of faith in it.

Toughest Two Minutes

It has been called “the toughest two minutes in sports” and it’s coming to Riverfront Festival Plaza September 8, 9...

Nature Connections

After 20 years, 904.6 kilometres and 60 days of hiking through the Ontario escarpment from Niagara to Tobermory, local mother-daughter duo Mary and Kristine Verbeek officially completed the entire Bruce Trail on...

Chantel Budinsky

Before 2019, Chantel Budinsky had never heard of disc golf. Now, she’s on her way to making it pro.

Octagon Origins

Kyle Prepolec wears a UFC t-shirt because he has stepped into the octagon multiple times.

Less Is More

uncluttered spaces. This stunning new Windsor home ticks all the boxes. 

Slam Dunking Dreams

Most kids who grow up with dreams of being a pro athlete want to make it big in college, then enter the pro leagues to earn their place in history for being the best of the best.

Portugal

Where can you stand inside a chapel decorated with human bones in the morning, visit a shrine where the Virgin Mary appeared 100 years ago at lunchtime, and by vacationers’ cocktail hour, lounge on a beach where 65 foot...

An Intoxicating Tale

Chronicling the life and times of Windsor’s “original six” breweries, Brewed in Windsor—A Tasty History has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster: booze, bars, bootlegging, boats and bullets.

Defining Home

In an era where so many musical acts are postponing live shows into the mid-2020s, Tarek Jafar and Justin Tessier of Windsor’s The Blue Stones have had a surprisingly busy year and a half.