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This Windsor Spitfires player has been named the OHL’s Humanitarian of the Year
What started out as a fun gift for teammates became Woody’s Hoodies for the Windsor Spitfires’ Carson Woodall, who recently received the Ontario Hockey League’s Humanitarian of the Year award. Woodall has raised more than $175,000 for cancer research, and he joined Windsor Morning’s Chris Ensing to talk about using his platform for good.
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Tecumseh high school student applies welding skills working on Tesla’s new Cybercab
Tecumseh’s Dylan Kettlewell, 17, was provided a three-week work opportunity at the Tesla ‘Gigafactory’ in Austin, Texas. A student of St. Anne Catholic Skilled Trades Academy, Kettlewell plans on pursuing welding as a career — and he says many other people his age also have their hopes for the future tied to skilled trades.
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Canada sees highest number of medical supply shortages in the world, Windsor researcher finds
Canada experiences the highest number of medical supply shortages in the world, according to a Windsor researcher who’s trying to fix the system.
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City-run grocery stores unlikely to lower prices, says think tank
OTTAWA — A free market think tank is warning Canadians not to believe the hype surrounding the suddenly fashionable idea of city-run grocery stores. A new study from the Montreal Economic Institute finds that the track record of public grocery stores in North America “offers little encouragement” for recently announced pilot projects in New York…
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1st wave of free FIFA Fan Festival tickets in Toronto snapped up in 4 hours
The first wave of free tickets to the FIFA Fan Festival in Toronto in June were snapped up on Wednesday within four hours of being made available online, an official says.
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Advocates slam Health Canada’s new voluntary breast implant registry, MP ‘deeply disappointed’
Health Canada has launched a new voluntary registry that will allow patients and health-care professionals to receive direct alerts about breast implant recalls and safety issues, but some patient advocates and medical professionals say it doesn’t go far enough.
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Advocate to return ‘disingenuous’ award after mayor’s opposition to Vancouver overdose prevention site
A prominent harm reduction and recovery advocate says he’s returning an honour bestowed upon him by Vancouver’s mayor amid a political battle over a proposed overdose prevention site (OPS) in the city centre.
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Chatham animal rescue speaks out after grocery bag full of kittens left at door
An animal rescue in Chatham-Kent is speaking out on social media after somebody dumped a grocery bag containing eight two-week-old kittens at its front door.
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Grey whale struck by Sea-Doo in Vancouver appears uninjured, ‘acting normal,’ says researcher
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans was able to assess the animal for injuries on Tuesday.
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B.C.-based group planning bid for Vancouver Whitecaps, minister says
British Columbia Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon says the provincial government has been approached by a local group that wants to buy the Vancouver Whitecaps.