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The Lares and Inca Trek

Go to Machu Picchu before you can no longer explore the ruins. If the magical Andean mountains and the authentic...

Man On A Minefield

When listening to 17 year old Brett Brochu, a goalie for the London Knights, describe the role, it sounds like a high...

Look Who’s Cooking At Home

Serving as Mayor of the Municipality of Lakeshore and as CEO of the Community Support Centre of Essex County, Tracey’s...

DERKZ

Painting Beyond The Canvas Story by Michael Seguin For some artists, a canvas can be claustrophobic. David Derkatz is a...

Writing Home for the Holidays

Interesting people from past Windsor Life articles have sent holiday letters to let our readers know what they are...

Adventure Tourism

Returning from safari in South Africa with their digital memory cards filled with images of elephants, giraffes and...

Krazy Kenny

‘Krazy Kenny’ Koekstat (born on June 15) is a Gemini man.

Preventable Fires

This holiday season, the greatest gift you can give your family is safety. For the last several years, Windsor Fire and...

The Running-Shaped Hole

February 22, Robert writes about his ordeal and odyssey with food, weight, work and family life

Working With Your Hands

One of these new developments is the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board (WECDSB) Construction Academy—a...

Vietnam Adventure

“When I told people I was going to Vietnam, most responded saying that’s the last place they’d visit.” This only...

Creating Awareness

How did Windsor boy land in the world of film and television—and become such a success? We sat down with him to find...

Portugal

Where can you stand inside a chapel decorated with human bones in the morning, visit a shrine where the Virgin Mary...

Danielle Campo

Few people understand the raw, transformative power of storytelling quite like local Paralympic champion and award...

Touring the Forever Home

When you walk into the house on Old Tecumseh Road in Lakeshore, time slows down.

The Spirit of the Times

Lisbon stands out as a small city with an outsized charm and character.

Noelle Montcalm

Olympic athlete Noelle Montcalm was initially drawn to track and field because of the solitary nature of the sport.

Remembering Two Area Business Icons

In the region’s construction and automotive sectors, there are two names that have each left an indelible mark on the...

Probing Spirit

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

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

For husband-wife Dale Jacobs and Heidi L.M. Jacobs, baseball has been a decades-long fixture of their shared lives.

A Sense of Wonder

For photographer Steve Biro, everything comes back to a sense of wonder. “I try to look at the world around me the way...

Leah Harris

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

Belinda Borrelli

At just 25 years old, Belinda Borrelli heard words that would change her life forever: “You have cancer.”

It Happened In Windsor

Long before the world heard of COVID-19, Windsor historian, filmmaker, and archivist, Michael Evans, took nostalgia to...

Albert Douglas

Albert Douglas is a 16-year-old entrepreneur at Vincent Massey Secondary School. He’s also the sole Owner of Benchmark...

Dreamcrusher

Who murdered pop singer Gwyn? This is the mystery at the center of Dreamcrusher, season one of “Reward,” a new mystery...

Nicole Anderson

In many ways, Nicole Anderson (née Sleiman) has been surrounded by entrepreneurs her whole life.

A Family Affair

For most people, the house on the shore of Lake St. Clair would have been a perfectly livable dwelling—a single story...

Local Memoir A Surprise Hit

David Garlick’s memoir, The Principal Chronicles, is more than the story of his years as a Windsor secondary school...

The United Snakes

It’s hard to believe, but one of Windsor’s oldest and most established bands is still going strong….and mostly with its...

Nolan Martin

An artist from an early age, Nolan always expressed himself through a wide variety of ways. “I like doing everything,” Nolan explains. “I like drawing. I like sculpting. I like painting. Anything creative! It’s really...

Still Standing

Executive Producer Executive Producer Anne Francis confirms that the series description of CBC’s Still Standing as “a love letter to small-town Canada” continues to ring true, six seasons into the series’ run.

Last Call

How far would you go to save a stranger’s life? That’s the central question posited by Gavin Michael Booth’s feature film Last Call, which recently opened in theatres around the world.

Chris Taylor

Creating music has always been the lifelong passion of Chris Taylor, the President of Music Global at Entertainment One. “I was always playing in bands in Windsor, growing up,” Chris explains. “Even when I was doing my...

Artistic Approach

Five skilled weavers in Nepal sat side by side weaving for an entire year to craft a 9’ by 12’ rug commissioned for a Lakeshore home. Blending 60 percent silk with 40 percent wool yarn, the weavers handtied 100 knots...

Danielle Campo-McLeod

Danielle Campo-McLeod’s parents realized something was different about her when she was still an infant. “When I was 15 to 16 months old, my Mom started noticing that I was walking differently,” Danielle explains. “I...

Summer Nostalgia

The Bishop Boys consists of Windsor’s Austin Di Pietro and Andrew Adoranti. The young musical duo is studiously redefining the singer-songwriter genre through their distinguished unison vocals, poetic lyricism and...

Noelle Montcalm

Olympic athlete Noelle Montcalm was initially drawn to track and field because of the solitary nature of the sport.